{"id":6070,"date":"2008-05-30T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=6070"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"The FREE WALLEYE Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><P>This week&#8217;s D.C. feature is named in honor of FREE WALLEYE, who won six races in a row in the early days of the Sim. Four three-year-old fillies will run 6.5 furlongs on the firm turf.<\/P><P>1 &#8211; <B>Absolute HD<\/B> (9\/1) showed great precocity early in her career, winning her first start as a two-year-old with a 70 speed figure. In the year that has passed since she began racing, she&#8217;s only shown marginal improvement. Teakwood Farms has carefully managed this filly&#8217;s career and placed her in softer races with short fields. As a result she&#8217;s hit the board in five stakes races. She could do so again today, although she shouldn&#8217;t be a threat to <B>Lost Project <\/B>and <B>Ziggolo<\/B>.<\/P><P>2 &#8211; Favorite <B>Lost Project <\/B>(3\/5) was a respectable second last time out in the Don&#8217;t Miss Out Handicap. She consistently runs speed figures in the 90s and is very familiar with the 6.5 furlong distance. Her biggest competition will come from <B>Ziggolo<\/B>.<\/P><P>3 &#8211; Stakes-placed <B>Rotkehlchen<\/B> (9\/1) ran some good races late last year and early this year, but has struggled in her previous two starts. After a two-month break, she could bounce back here to hit the board, but probably won&#8217;t challenge either <B>Lost Project <\/B>or <B>Ziggolo <\/B>if they run as expected today.<\/P><P>4 &#8211; Second-choice <B>Ziggolo<\/B> (7\/5) has an impressive record &#8211; she&#8217;s won half the races she&#8217;s entered and has only finished off the board three times in fourteen starts. Coming off a victory in The Honkey Tonk La Memorial Stakes, she&#8217;ll try to make it two in a row here. Her speed figures show she can run with <STRONG>Lost Project<\/STRONG>.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost Project or Ziggolo? Free Walleye looks almost like a match race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"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":[2,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}