Here we are on a cool sunny day here in INDIANA for the running of THE FLAT HOOP(IRE) STAKES going 11 furlongs for 3yo\u2019s on the firm turf course. $85,000 is up for grabs in this 8 horse field. Slight morning line favorite A NECESSARY EVIL will take on a very close field here today.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 1. BRINK by THE CLIFF\u2019S EDGE and trained by socalsgrl <\/I>has a record of 3-0-2 from 14 starts and earnings of 29,394. Hasn\u2019t been close since stepping out of Allowance Company. This colt has been beaten over 60 lengths in his last 5 races. He will need a dramatic improvement here today to compete with these.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 2. SKY RAHY by RAHY and trained by airrav <\/I>has a record of 4-1-1 from 12 starts and earnings of 151,394. His only starts on the turf was a MSW going 6 furlongs in which he was 4th<\/SUP> and closing. Since than he has been strictly on the dirt. Distance doesn\u2019t look to be any problem with his win 2 back going 14 furlongs in the MISSISSIPPI NINER STAKES. Look for this colt to fire a huge race today.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 3. A NECESSARY EVIL by VINDICATION and trained by hot2trot <\/I>has a record of 2-6-4 from 19 starts and earnings of 154,030. Hasn\u2019t showed that he likes this distance in his previous races. The mile and a quarter looks to be the wall for him. Still not a lot in here today and the meets #2 rider STACY is in the irons.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 4. EIGHTYSEVENTH DR(IRE) by HIGH CHAPARRAL(IRE) and trained by irishsired <\/I>has a record of 4-2-3 from 13 starts and earnings of 117,385. Winner of 2 straight against Allowance Company going 12 furlongs this colt looks to tackle the next step now. He will be flying late in the stretch today.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 5. EL COMMANDANT by DEPUTY COMMANDER and trained by ozioziozi <\/I>has a record of 5-9-2 from 20 starts and earnings of 172,565. This colt stopped badly in his last race beaten over 14 lengths. His previous 8 starts this year he has been no worse than 2nd<\/SUP>. Three starts back won the 10 furlong EXCITING COZZENE. Hopefully the trainer figured out what went wrong last time and he fires back to normal today.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 6. ICON(GB) by HAAFD(GB) and trained by buzzbarn <\/I>has a record of 2-8-8 from 23 starts and earnings of 48,290. This colt has been running against Starter Allowance Company and only won one of those and that was 7 starts back. Distance looks to be a problem also with this one.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 7. PERFECTA by PLEASANTLY PERFECT and trained by bellissimo <\/I>has a record of 3-6-2 from 21 starts with earnings of 261,958. The lone filly in the race is coming off a 14 \u00bd length beating by the girls in the G1 PENSACOLA OAKS. Before that she was 2nd<\/SUP> in an Allowance race going 9f. <\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> 8. ONE FINE DEPUTY by SEEKING THE GOLD and trained by n2racing <\/I>has a record of 6-2-1 from 13 starts and earnings of 227,659. Winner last time out in Vermont in the EIGHT BUSTER BONANZA going 12 furlongs. Finished 5th<\/SUP> in the G1 IRISH DERBY four starts back.<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR> MY PICK TODAY 2-8-4 GOOD LUCK TO ALL !!!<\/B><\/FONT><\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WHO CAN GO THE DISTANCE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"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-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |