{"id":2971,"date":"2006-09-19T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T10:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2971"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=2971","title":{"rendered":"Aim For The Moon Reaches For Stardom In CVBear&#8217;s Hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><FONT size=2><P><STRONG>Aim For The Moon<\/STRONG> parlayed a swift early pace into a discreet stalking trip, as she overtook early leader <STRONG>Dublin Lass<\/STRONG> in the stretch en route to a three-quarter length win in Saturday&#8217;s <STRONG><EM>$125,000 CVBear&#8217;s Hometown Handicap<\/EM><\/STRONG> in New York.<\/P><P>As expected, <STRONG>Dublin Lass<\/STRONG> went out fast early on, chased by <STRONG>Kacymygirl<\/STRONG> through the early stages. <STRONG>Aim For The Moon<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>Jackdaw Castle<\/STRONG> were content to stalk from the pack as the leader pushed out to a lead of two-and-a-half lengths at the three-furlong marker. But the early speed began to wilt, and the pack closed in as the field entered the stretch. <STRONG>Dublin Lass<\/STRONG> was tenacious, maintaining a lead into deep stretch, but <STRONG>Aim For The Moon<\/STRONG> kicked clear with about a sixteenth of a mile to run. A late surge by <STRONG>Explosive Storm<\/STRONG> fell short, as <STRONG>Aim For The Moon<\/STRONG> was saved by the wire, finishing almost a length in front. <STRONG>Explosive Storm<\/STRONG> was a valiant but vanquished second, and <STRONG>Kacymygirl<\/STRONG>, who had been expected to challenge for the early lead, was game while a stubborn third, a length-and-a-quarter back. <STRONG>Dublin Lass<\/STRONG> couldn&#8217;t hold off the latecomers after such strong fractions, but was best of the rest while fourth, beaten two lengths.<\/P><P><STRONG>Aim For The Moon<\/STRONG>, a four-year-old daughter of Woodman out of the High Yield mare Jimenez, earned her first graded stakes win in the CVBear&#8217;s Hometown, much like Win McCool won her first graded event in the race on which this one was based this past weekend. The filly earned $75,000 for the victory for the barn of <EM><STRONG>teamfoppa<\/STRONG><\/EM>, and successfully ran the six furlongs in a dazzling 1:09 1\/5; this time earned <STRONG>Aim For The Moon<\/STRONG> a career-best speed figure of 107.\u00a0 Congratulations are in order for her connections on their talented filly&#8217;s success in the CVBear&#8217;s Hometown, a race which is tentatively scheduled to return next year on this same weekend.<\/P><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Graded Win For Talented Sprinter; Explosive Storm Fast-Closing Second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}