Horseshoe Bay<\/U><\/STRONG> joined an elite group of Sim horses once again with a smashing late run to capture what turned out to be listed as the Grade I, $500,000 Simply The Best<\/EM><\/STRONG>, which most assuredly\u00a0deserves to\u00a0have this horse’s name on it for years to come.\u00a0 He charged from a fifteen-and-a-half length deficit to rally strongly and catch Confederacy<\/STRONG> in the final furlong of this\u00a0marathon turf event.\u00a0 Confederacy<\/STRONG> managed to hold on to second, beaten five-and-a-half lengths, while Mine D’Inverne<\/STRONG> ran a game race yet just lost a photo for third.<\/P> The race started as expected, with Confederacy<\/STRONG> indeed setting sail on the lead, receiving some basic pressure from Bane<\/STRONG>, Dela Groom T<\/STRONG> and Empire Shaker<\/STRONG>.\u00a0\u00a0The leader\u00a0shook those challengers off with about six furlongs left, while Horseshoe Bay<\/STRONG> began to make his move from the back of the field, more than fifteen lengths behind in tenth, and second choice Artificial Crisis<\/STRONG>, content to stalk, found his engine stuck in neutral when the closers fired.\u00a0 Confederacy<\/STRONG> held his ground for a time\u00a0inside the last five furlongs, still maintaining a six length lead with three furlongs left, but the last quarter-mile found Horseshoe Bay<\/STRONG> flying down the stretch, collaring the leader and pulling away from a retreating, tired Confederacy<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Mine D’Inverne<\/STRONG>, who got into the game late, finished gamely, but was no match for the winner and the early leader.\u00a0 Aritifical Crisis<\/STRONG> was an even fourth, while one of the coterie of early stalkers, Dela Groom T<\/STRONG>, ran well enough with the pace to be able to hold on to fifth.<\/P> With the $300,000 winner’s share of the purse, Horseshoe Bay<\/STRONG> became the Sim’s newest member of the $10 Million Club, pushing his career earnings to $10,079,695.\u00a0 A son of Red Ransom x Woodman, the brown trainee of texasace<\/EM><\/STRONG> won his sixteenth career Grade I race, and his twenty-first overall win in thirty-five career races.\u00a0 He stopped the clock for the mile-and-a-half race over a firm course in 2:29 4\/5, which gives him a speed figure of 108.\u00a0 Immediate plans have not been confirmed for Horseshoe Bay<\/STRONG> in the wake of his Victory, except that his connections might plan one helluva party to celebrate his entry into the $10 Million Club.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Horseshoe Bay Rolls Easily Over Confederacy Speed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}