{"id":4222,"date":"2007-05-20T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=4222"},"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=4222","title":{"rendered":"PEARL RICK Special Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The early speed could not sustain today, with closers taking the top three positions in today\u2019s $45,000 PEARL RICK Special in South Dakota.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/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\">Consistent with his late closing style, <B>TEXAS FLOOD<\/B> sat back comfortably in sixth until jockey F Leghorn asked for more.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He responded willingly coming out of the far turn, moving to the lead along with <B>END OF TUNNEL<\/B>, then holding off the latter by \u00bd length for the win.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>END OF TUNNEL<\/B> began his run earlier and closed equally as well, but just couldn\u2019t get around the winner at the line.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>EXCLUSIVE REASON<\/B> tried to go with the top two, but didn\u2019t have enough and finished a game third in his first try at the stakes level.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>DYNACITY<\/B> set the early pace, leading by over two lengths down the backstretch, but couldn\u2019t hold and faded to fourth.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>After trailing the leader in second until the far corner, <B>CHEVAL<\/B> <B>POINT<\/B> faded as well to fifth, just ahead of <B>UNBREAKABLE<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B>WHY<\/B> <B>MARRY<\/B> was never a factor and finished 23 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>TEXAS FLOOD\u2019s<\/B> winning time of 1:56 4\/5 earned him a lifetime best SP of 91.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 3-year-old colt sired by RAINBOW QUEST earned his first lifetime stakes win and has now won over $100,000 for owner <I>fleet1<\/I>.<\/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 South Dakota will offer one of its largest purses of the year with the 8<SUP>th<\/SUP> running of the $250,000 Pea Shooter Handicap (GII) for 3 year old colts going 6 furlongs on the dirt.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS FLOOD is first time stakes winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"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-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}