{"id":5695,"date":"2008-03-29T18:12:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=5695"},"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=5695","title":{"rendered":"Samalaman Island Takes The TEX A. P. Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><P><STRONG>Samalaman Island<\/STRONG> made it look all too easy as he stormed past <STRONG>Kepler Cro Cor C<\/STRONG> to take the win in The Tex A. P. Challenge. Blazing past the entire field with a speed of 110, Samalaman Island broke the race record of 2:31 by 3\/5 of a second. Kepler Cro Cor C, who looked certain to take home the win, put forth a valiant effort but in the end, it just wasn&#8217;t enough. He failed to take home the win for the second time this month here in Tennessee. Let&#8217;s take a look and see just what happened.<\/P><P>At the first call it was <B>Nijinsky <\/B>in the lead. <B>Red Wind <\/B>and <B>Touch and Stop <\/B>were both a quarter of length off the lead in second and third. Then it was <B>Sitttinwaitinwishin, Kepler Cro Cor C, Supreme Blend, Humboldt Station, K&#8217;s Inkognito, Mango Missile, Higher Than A Kite, Hier Ab Vier, Longer Than Woods, No Nag Here<\/B> and <B>Samalaman Island<\/B> trailed the field, 11 3\/4 lengths off the lead.<\/P><P>By the second call, the field remained almost the same with the exception of Kepler Cro Cor C who began easing towards the front of the pack, passing Sittinwaitinwishin and taking over fourth and Samalaman Island dropped even further back to 17 1\/4 lengths off the lead. No Nag here dropped even further back to last by 18 1\/4 lengths.<\/P><P>At the third call, it was Kepler Cro Cor C who had taken over the lead by 3 lengths and was pulling away from the field. Little did he know that Samalaman Island was hunting down and overtaking the field one by one. He was still 10 1\/2 lengths off the lead but was closing the gap fast to finally overtake and pass Kepler Cro Cor C and be the first under the finish wire a good 4 lengths ahead of Kepler Cro Cor C. 4 3\/4 lengths behind Kepler Cro Cor C, Humboldt Station finished the race in 3rd.<\/P><P>So yet, once again, I was wrong about the outcome. I predicted <B>Kepler Cro Cor C x Samalaman Island x Touch and Stop. <\/B>I wasn&#8217;t too far off with Kepler Cro Cor C and Samalaman Island but Touch and Stop finished the race in 9th, 19 lengths back, but I must say that it was quite a race and for once, I was happy to be proven wrong.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kepler Cro Cor C robbed of a win the second time this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"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-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}