{"id":4220,"date":"2007-05-20T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=4220"},"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=4220","title":{"rendered":"KRYSTAL KING Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Betting favorite <B>SPANISH HARLAN<\/B> easily won today\u2019s $60,000 KRYSTAL KING Stakes in Vermont, paying $8.30, $4.10 and $2.70 for those bettors who followed this writer\u2019s prediction.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Rider S Gravina was the feature winner for the second consecutive week at this track.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a0<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The race played out as expected as <B>MELODRAMA<\/B> took the early lead from the start, followed closely by <B>SHIMISHIMISHAKE<\/B>, with <B>SPANISH<\/B> <B>HARLAN<\/B> settling nicely in fourth. They stayed this way around the first turn and down the backstretch, until <B>SPANISH HARLAN<\/B> began to make his move in the far turn.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His charge caught the early leaders at the top of the stretch and he easily moved out to win by 3 \u00bc lengths.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>SHIMISHIMISHAKE<\/B> was able to get up to second in the stretch (his second consecutive stakes runner up finish), with <B>MELODRAMA<\/B> holding on gamely for third in his first stakes outing.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>BRISKEN<\/B> ran evenly, finishing fourth.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>THEOLOGICAL<\/B> sat nicely in third for the first half of the race, but never fired and faded to a distant fifth.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>ARRESTED THIEF<\/B> and <B>EIGHT NINE<\/B> trailed the field throughout, finishing more than 10 lengths back.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B>SPANISH HARLAN\u2019s<\/B> winning time of 1:56 2\/5 earned him a SP of 94.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 3-year-old Kentucky bred colt sired by SAHM earned his second lifetime stakes win for owner <I>fleet1<\/I> and pushed his lifetime earnings to over $135,000.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Next week\u2019s feature at Vermont will showcase the older females going 9.5 furlongs on turf in the $65,000 PRINCESS QUEST Challenge.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPANISH HARLAN victorious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}