{"id":3247,"date":"2006-10-29T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=3247"},"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=3247","title":{"rendered":"Like a Blaze of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">One of the best closers on turf proved it again as <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Gold Inferno<\/B> flew past the others like a ball of fire to take the Grade III Harry Carey Memorial Stakes.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Prior runnings of this event on firm turf have all been won by horses on the lead or within just a length of the early leaders, but the four year old colt from the <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Correction<\/I><\/B> stable won convincingly after falling to last in the early fractions of the race.<\/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\">Ranked 40<SUP>th<\/SUP> coming into the race, Gold Inferno may have benefited from the absence of higher rated runners, many of whom are pointed to run in next week\u2019s Breeders Bowl Mile.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With the graded win, his ranking improves to 28<SUP>th<\/SUP> among older turf classic runners.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This was the second win of this race for jockey R Logan, who was aboard Dom Tendencies, who set the stakes record in 2004.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Today\u2019s race was one and two fifths second slower than that race.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">With several entered who appeared to need the lead to run well, it was three year old <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">To Die For <\/B>who surged ahead to a two length lead for much of the race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But that pace was surely fatal for To Die For, as he faded in the lane to finish fourth.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">With a closing kick that would have looked impressive had it not been overshadowed by the winner, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Merry Mex<\/B>, out of the <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">GradeOne<\/I><\/B> stable, edged out <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Yowza<\/B> from the <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">8BallFarms <\/I><\/B>stable in a photo for the place.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Inferno Incinerates Harry Carey Field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"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-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}