{"id":5814,"date":"2008-04-19T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=5814"},"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=5814","title":{"rendered":"Binzaman, SISSON&#8217;S ALLEY rock Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><P><STRONG>By ITCH<\/STRONG><\/P><P>Binzaman&#8217;s <STRONG>SISSON&#8217;S ALLEY,<\/STRONG> a 3yo scratch-bred son of Flower Alley using Storm Cat as the dam-sire, grew by leaps and bounds on Saturday here in the Grade 2 $300,000 Texas Derby, and forever stamped himself a graded winner with a giant run home to win going away.<\/P><P>Coming into the race as the final qualifier in a field of 12, Sisson&#8217;s Alley was only ranked No. 773 in the 3yo Classic Division. So much for that. He&#8217;ll rocket way up the rankings with this Grade 2 score, which was captured in explosive fashion.<\/P><P>Reserved early in seventh, Sisson&#8217;s Alley raced alongside <STRONG>RIGHTEOUS BEEF<\/STRONG> in the early stages while <STRONG>TOUGH GUY<\/STRONG> was proving himself best of the speed horses up front. Ranging up toward the leading group on the turn, Sisson&#8217;s Alley quickly became the eye-catcher when he blew by favored <STRONG>INDY PROSPECTOR<\/STRONG> at the head of the stretch. At the rapid rate he was approaching, it was apparent that Sisson&#8217;s Alley was going to have no trouble passing the leader. He went by Tough Guy in mid-stretch and drew away to an emphatic 2-plus length victory. Tough Guy proved himself plenty tough in holding on for the place money over Lenny&#8217;s <STRONG>RAGE OF THE TITANS,<\/STRONG> who was closing strongly late and might have been second with a few more jumps.<\/P><P>The Texas Derby was a disappointment for Bluegrass Derby hopefuls Indy Prospector and <STRONG>GARDEN SOCIETY,<\/STRONG> both of whom missed the board. Garden Society never fired, while Indy Prospector raced an up-close fifth. Maybe that long trip to Texas from Dubai was a bit much.<\/P><P>So, it turns out none of the horses will be shipping from Dallas to Louisville, but you might see the winner show up in Baltimore in June.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last qualifier is first in Texas Derby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"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-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}