{"id":5870,"date":"2008-04-29T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=5870"},"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=5870","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Jones Much the Best in Blazing Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Arial size=2>\u00a0<\/FONT><DIV><BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM\"><\/A>\u00a0<STRONG>Basketball Jones<\/STRONG>, bred and trained by the fabulous <EM><U><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>Fabman<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/U><\/EM>, used his fast break finish to post up a most impressive victory in this week&#8217;s feature.\u00a0 Fabman originally bred the big Smarty Jones colt for another owner.\u00a0 But when that player went on hiatus, Fab took over the training duties.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Jonesy bided his time\u00a0toward\u00a0the\u00a0back of the\u00a0pack for most of the grassy mile while\u00a0<STRONG>Rockabilly Rock<\/STRONG>\u00a0rambled through\u00a0quick splits of :22.2, :45.3, and 1:09.\u00a0 Basketball Jones made up ground steadily from the half to the three quarters where jockey George Adler called upon the son of the stakes placed <STRONG>Seattle Slew<\/STRONG> matron, <STRONG>Upper Crust<\/STRONG>, to pick up the tempo.\u00a0 Pick it up indeed!\u00a0 Basketball Jones drove the lane and slam dunked a solid field by almost two lengths in a blazing 1:33.2, good for a gaudy 118 speed number according to the official scorer.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><STRONG>Mia Then Again<\/STRONG> shadowed the winner&#8217;s every move and out finished the rest to take the place.\u00a0 <STRONG>Leo&#8217;s Jewels<\/STRONG> put in a solid bid from mid pack to\u00a0garner show honors while no threat to the top pair.\u00a0 Basketball Jones, undoubtedly named for the classic Cheech and Chong sketch,\u00a0returned $11.80 as the lukewarm favorite.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabman Charge Posts Sizzling 118 as Week&#8217;s Fastest<\/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-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","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=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}