They broke fast in the G1 KY Horsemen Bourbon Cup<\/EM>, with favored Kool Thing<\/STRONG> and Martson’s Spoon<\/STRONG> going eye to eye out of the gate, longshot Casey’s Quest<\/STRONG> breathing down their necks and Seattle Rap Ted<\/STRONG> blasting straight away down the rail.\u00a0 Dragnipur<\/STRONG> brought up the rear of the leading pack, while the rest seemed to remember that they had two miles to go on the Kentucky turf course.\u00a0 They settled farther back, with second choice Band of Buda<\/STRONG> chilling out all the way in the back of the pack.<\/P> The first mile went quietly, and soon afterward, the pace began to take its toll.\u00a0 Dragnipur took the first run at the leaders, poking his nose in front as Blazing Lights<\/STRONG> swept up from the second field.\u00a0 Surgeon Tubes<\/STRONG> went with him, and Band of Budas was moving, too, with sweeping strides and Rebel Yell N<\/STRONG> threading through the holes he made.<\/P> Blazing Lights kicked well clear of the disintegrating pace, but he didn’t get to enjoy it for long as Band of Budas went roaring by on the outside, notching an even 100 speed rating as he finished on top by nearly four lengths.\u00a0 Blazing Lights couldn’t make up any ground on the winner but stayed on gamely; they both pulled away from the rest.\u00a0 Surgeon Tubes hung a bit, finishing third, and Rebel Yell N’s even drive picked up fourth money and Dragnipur ended up in fifth, the only money-earning survivor of the early pace.<\/P> Lucky’s Dubai<\/STRONG> was evenly in sixth.\u00a0 It was another seven lengths back to Martson’s Spoon, followed by Kool Thing, Seattle Rap Ted, and a rubbery-legged Casey’s Quest.\u00a0 Mockingbird<\/STRONG> wrapped it up early and jogged home.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" G1 Bourbon Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}