{"id":3289,"date":"2006-11-04T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=3289"},"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=3289","title":{"rendered":"Pace makes race for Buffy8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>By ITCH<\/STRONG><\/P><P>Buffy8&#8217;s <STRONG>SPITFIRE MK I ($9.40)<\/STRONG> took control of the Wings of a Dove Cap right from the start and never was seriously threatened in posting his first career stakes victory in his first career stakes start.<\/P><P>The old adage &#8220;pace makes the race&#8221; was particularly true in this $75,000, 1 1\/16-mile test for 2yos, as the field of seven was loaded with nothing but deep closers. Jockey M. Hoge pounced on this advantage, sending Buffy8&#8217;s Tiznow colt right to the front. Nursed along on an easy lead, Spitfire MK I had plenty left in the lane to hold off Bobo&#8217;s <STRONG>KEPLER PASSION<\/STRONG>, who ranged up to put pressure on the winner down the lane, but never seriously threatened.<\/P><P>It was a disappointing\u00a0fourth-place finish\u00a0for Tbgifted&#8217;s co-favored colt, <STRONG>ACHAEMENES<\/STRONG>, whose chances surely were compromised by the fact that there was no pace for him to run at.<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPITFIRE MK I goes to front, stays there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"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-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","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\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}