{"id":3092,"date":"2006-10-06T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=3092"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=3092","title":{"rendered":"PRINCE S. SPECIAL Brings Out Four Hopefuls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">A small group of four juveniles will come to the gate at the Ole North State Downs on Saturday.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Besides HUNTER IN CANADA, who will making his first run on the turf, the other three starters have shown steady improvement to reach this point in their two year old campaign.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">MINSTREL BAY(GB) <\/B>\u2013pp.1 (<SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: green\">Haafhd(GB) x Prospect Bay<\/SPAN>) <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>He has been in-the money five of six trips; with his only poor outing being in the KyHorseman Juvenile-gr. I.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ranked #40 in the turf sprint group for two years old.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">MR POWERSTORM BG (GB)<\/B><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>-pp.2<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(<SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: green\">Powerscourt x Miswaki<\/SPAN>)<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Making his stakes debut, he has been on a run of consistency (four straight of being within two lengths of the winner or better).<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">HUNTER IN CANADA<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/B>-pp. 3<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(<SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: green\">High Yield x Grand Slam<\/SPAN>)<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>After a seventh place finish (only four lengths out) in his last outing, ownership felt it was time to test the grass. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>His two other dirt starts were impressive, so this test may be a one shot deal.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Bloodline leans toward dirt, but sire has had some success throwing turfers.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">UNO OJAI<\/B> \u2013pp. 4 <SPAN style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(<SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: green\">Macho Uno x Kingmambo<\/SPAN>) He showed a big improvement when switched to the grass three races back. He appears to prefer lying off the pace, and small field and good early fractions should benefit this race favorite.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Even though HUNTER IN CANADA will be going on grass for the first time, I still expect him to break out and grab the early lead with MR POWERSTORM(GB) applying the early pressure down the backstretch.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>MINSTREL BAY (GB) and UNO OJAI will most likely settle a few lengths off the lead and begin their move as the small group round the turn. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>UNO OJAI has shown some definite preference for grass and may continue to improve.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>MINSTREL BAY (GB) could be the real challenge, especially if HUNTER IN CANADA finds the footing unfavorable.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>MR POWERSTORM BG (GB) has been going against a bit more softer competition, but should stay in contention in this event.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will A Future King Be Found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","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\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}