{"id":570,"date":"2005-09-11T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=570"},"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=570","title":{"rendered":"What a Ride!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In a textbook perfect ride, leading jockey A Smith guided <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Seven Skies<\/B> to her best race yet and a win in the $55,000 Boomer Belly Stakes.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her previous four races, even while winning twice, the daughter of Septieme Ciel had trouble rating.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This time, Smith let Skies sit just off a dueling pair and swoop by in the stretch on a tiring surface rated \u201cgood.\u201d<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Even though the winning distance was less than a length, she looked much the best over the place and show fillies.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Francsoir<\/I> stable had run Seven Skies against the boys in her last two outings.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is now three for three against her own sex.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The winner\u00a0paid $12.60, $5.90, $3.90.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The favorite, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Shergar<\/I>\u2019s <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Sinndahill<\/B>, got caught up in a suicidal speed duel with <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">BezStables\u2019<\/I> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Lagagogo<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The latter, while behind in every fraction, briefly gained the lead near the top of the stretch, but faded.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Sinndahill\u2019s lack of progress over her last three races looks worrisome. <\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Along with\u00a0Francsoir, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">DKYoung3<\/I> should also be encouraged by the race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That stable\u2019s <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Flash Storm<\/B> made a belated run and, while only finishing fourth, appeared to be moving fastest at the wire.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">To comment on this review, email timmn@hotmail.com<o:p><\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith Shows How to Bring Them Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"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-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}