{"id":5483,"date":"2008-02-21T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=5483"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=5483","title":{"rendered":"Six colts battle for The DEPUTY&#8217;S HIPPOS Memorial Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Six colts line up for this 3yo 7.5 furlongs on firm turf. The lack\u00a0of numbers is more than made up by the quality though and the odds-on favourite will want to put in a solid display before perhaps heading on to bigger and better things. The betting is:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/P><P>4\/5 Viva La Voce(KY)<BR>7\/2 Golden Year(KY)<BR>9\/2 BPB Markane(AUS)<BR>6\/1 Tropical Joe(KY)<BR>8\/1 Azz You Wish(IRE)<BR>13\/1 Loves To Boogie(IRE)<\/P><P><BR><STRONG><U>Analysis<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG><FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow\">4\/5 Viva La Voce(KY) &#8211; #3 <BR>Trainer: sgtbones<BR>(Forest Wildcat x Kingmambo x Seattle Slew)<BR><\/FONT><\/STRONG>The short priced favourite comes from <STRONG>Flying W Ranch<\/STRONG> and was bred from a graded winning C class mare.\u00a0 He&#8217;s already run 12 times and has 5 wins, including 3 stakes victories as a 2yo.\u00a0 Despite running his best sp# in his last race, his first as a 3yo, he could only manage a disappointing 3rd place &#8211; although that may well be put down to the dustance (8.5 furlongs) as he simply seemed to run out of steam in the finishing straight.\u00a0 Back at a distance where he has met with a lot of success he will be a hard nut to crack here.<\/P><P><STRONG><FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow\">7\/2 Golden Year(KY) &#8211; #1<\/FONT> <BR>Trainer: tatty2<BR>(Dayjur x Spinning World x Nashua)<BR><\/STRONG>Based on a nice C class horse, this colt has just 2 wins in his 7 race career.\u00a0 With 3 races already under his belt this year he is being worked very hard, but doing very well despite that.\u00a0 Seems to like coming from off the pace but may come unstuck against a fuel-injected\u00a0favourite.\u00a0 <\/P><P><STRONG><FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow\">9\/2 BPB Markane(AUS) &#8211; #4<\/FONT> <BR>Trainer: bpboost3<BR>(Markane x Royal Anthem x Touching Wood)<\/STRONG><BR><STRONG>Bpboost Stables<\/STRONG> send out a colt with an impressive 3 wins from 4 runs.\u00a0 Probably didn&#8217;t improve as expected in his only 3yo run to date, but it was an EAAA Division Inter-Residency Challenge which often features some of the best opposition on offer.\u00a0 If he manages to put that run behind him he could be challenging for a victory here. <\/P><P><STRONG><FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow\">6\/1 Tropical Joe(KY) &#8211; #5<\/FONT> <BR>Trainer: stryke03<BR>(Johar x Known Fact x Icecapade)<BR><\/STRONG>A colt from <STRONG>MaNature TB&#8217;s &#8216;Organic &#038; Homegrown&#8217;<\/STRONG> based on a\u00a0 G class horse.\u00a0 With 3 wins from 8 runs as a 2yo he is open to some improvement here, and whilst that may not be enough to win he should put in a respectable performance. Was well beaten by <STRONG>Golden Year(KY) <\/STRONG>in his only stakes appearance, but that looked a pretty poor performance on the day.<\/P><P><STRONG><FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow\">8\/1 Azz You Wish(IRE) &#8211; #6<\/FONT> <BR>Trainer: amazon2<BR>(Azamour (IRE) x Zieten x Beaudelaire)<BR><\/STRONG>Another lightly raced but successful colt from <STRONG>Change is on the way! (RASH)<\/STRONG> and bred from an E class mare.\u00a0 Lost his first race but has won all 3 since so it&#8217;s hard to see just how close he is to his rivals, but you can be assured that he wont want to\u00a0 begin a losing sequence just yet.\u00a0 <\/P><P><STRONG><FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow\">13\/1 Loves To Boogie(IRE) &#8211; #2<\/FONT> <BR>Trainer: storehouse<BR>(Stardan (IRE) x Carnegie(IRE) x Kaapstad(NZ))<BR>Morrighan Stable Empire<\/STRONG> send out a colt with a 100% record &#8211; 1 win from 1 run.\u00a0 That race was over 7 furlongs as a 3yo so whether he will improve on that performance is anybody&#8217;s guess.\u00a0\u00a0 My thinking is that he wont and maybe should have tried an easier allowance race before entering here, but you can&#8217;t blame his trainer for trying &#8211; and who knows, it could pay off. <\/P><P><STRONG><U>Summary<\/U><\/STRONG><\/P><P>Some of these colts have very little form to provide much information,\u00a0 but even so it&#8217;s hard to see that <STRONG>Viva La Voce(KY)<\/STRONG> will be troubled overmuch by this field.\u00a0 The battle for the minor placings is basically a lottery with all of the field capable of running good races, so it could be a real dogfight coming up to the line.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viva The Red Hot Favourite <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"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-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}