{"id":579,"date":"2005-09-11T22:48:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=579"},"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=579","title":{"rendered":"Fly For Buda Romps in Citation Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Race # 16 <BR>Citation Cup\u00a0\u00a0 Purse: $500,000<BR>All horses, 3 years old<BR>A mile and three sixteenths &#8212; Fast Dirt<\/P><P>Post Horse Win Place Show <BR>5\u00a0 FLY FOR BUDA $10.70 $7.00 $3.90 <BR>12\u00a0 ACT OF GOD\u00a0\u00a0 $12.10 $9.00 <BR>13\u00a0 ANTICOSTI\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $4.10 <\/P><P>Exacta:\u00a0\u00a0 $109.70 <BR>Trifecta:\u00a0\u00a0 $507.50 <\/P><P>Also Rans: HOLD THE PICKLES,\u00a0 DROMEDARY(GB),\u00a0 ST. KILDA,\u00a0 ARNO HOLLANDIA,\u00a0 UPPER MANAGEMENT,\u00a0 INDISPENSABLE,\u00a0 REAL PLAYER(IRE),\u00a0 PRINCIPLE SKINNER,\u00a0 KIKI&#8217;S ROCK SHAFT,\u00a0 HARDER TO CATCH,\u00a0 ORCA<\/P><P>Time of race: 1:54.14<\/P><DIV>CO-favored Fly For Buda parlayed a perfect stalking trip and\u00a0a\u00a0powerful closing kick into an impressive win in Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0Grade I Citation Cup.\u00a0 CO-favored Anticosti vied briefly with the speedy Orca as the bulky field swept past the stands for the first time.\u00a0 The Bluegrass Derby hero soon disposed of the pesky Orca and opened a clear lead through\u00a0solid but benign\u00a0splits of :23.39, :46.85, 1:11.04 and 1:35.78.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>At the top of the stretch it became apparent that Anticosti was beginning to labor in his unusual roll as pacesetter.\u00a0 Leading So Cal rider Frank Gossett had Fly For Buda in perfect position to take advantage of his main rival&#8217;s problems and the handsome Sadler&#8217;s Wells colt quickly and easily sprinted past the tired gray when roused.\u00a0 Act Of God, far back throughout the first mile, rallied spiritedly to steal the place from the\u00a0struggling but game Anticosti who was still well clear of the rest at the wire.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>The victory, Fly For Buda&#8217;s fourth grade one triumph of the year, snapped a three race losing streak and catapulted Laura&#8217;s colt\u00a0back into the picture for year end honors.<\/DIV><P>\u00a0<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><P><BR>\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadler&#8217;s Wells Colt Serious Threat For Year End Honors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}