He won as a short priced favorite would be expected to, silencing forever the cynics who doubted his ability to maintain his run over the thirteen furlongs. Buzzbringsthebeers<\/B> had the punters heading to the bar in celebration after demolishing the opposition, without creating any heart palpitations for those who had taken the short price. .<\/P>
King Record<\/B> won the jump impressively from the two gate and quickly set up a clear gap. The remainder of the field jumped as one and raced in a line for the first furlong, before Grave Point Made<\/B> moved into a clear second. Lara\u2019s Saintly, Mudstone, Buzzbringthebeers, Blarney\u2019s Gift<\/B> and Dela Groom T<\/B> made up the order in the run, with very little between them at the first call. <\/P> The feild remained unchanged until the half way, although the gaps had widened a bit. King Record<\/B> holding a five length lead when the opposition began to move. Grave Point Made<\/B> was first to step on the gas, and it was soon clear that he had the leader covered. Lara\u2019s Saintly<\/B> was making\u00a0 <\/SPAN>good ground, but it was Buzzbringsthebeers <\/B>causing the buzz amongst the crowd, as he was stylishly closing the eight lengths he had give up during the early stages of the event.<\/P> Rounding the turn, and Grave Point Made<\/B> had hit the lead, with just the one challenger threatening. As soon as they straightened, D. McCants<\/I> gave Buzz <\/B>a gently nudge, and the race was quickly put beyond doubt. Buzzbringsthebeers<\/B> cruised home to victory by three and a quarter from a gallant Grave Point Made.<\/B><\/P> Lara\u2019s Saintly <\/B>had run an even race for third without ever looking a winning chance, while the remained of the field toiled in a group ten lengths back<\/P> Dela Groom T <\/B>and King Record <\/B>took the minor spoils, just ahead of Blarney\u2019s Gift<\/B> and Mudstone<\/B><\/P> Buzzbringsthebeers<\/B> is a four year son of Vindication <\/I>from Barely Smoke<\/B> a lightly raced daughter of Storm Cat \/ Nodouble. <\/I>This was his ninth win from twenty nine starts and lifts his earnings above $280,000. He ran the 13 furlongs in 2.46.4 and returned a speed rating of 100. He now ranks # 71 in the older dirt stayers division<\/P> Gr8bigsea<\/B> is an established stable with the formidable strike rate of 117 wins from 760 runs. Buzzbringsthebeers<\/B> is the stable\u2019s leading earner, while three year old Alligator Arms<\/B>, an up and coming three year old is also a six figure earner and completed the double from the two races contested by the stable this weekend.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Favorite Comfortably in Illinois Stakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"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-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","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\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}