{"id":608,"date":"2005-09-16T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo&#8217;s Sword Drawn For Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Arial size=2>\u00a0<\/FONT><DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#8080ff>The CAPONE Stakes<\/FONT><\/STRONG><BR>A mile and five sixteenths <BR>Firm Turf <BR>$65,000 <BR>All horses, 3 years old and up <\/DIV><DIV><BR>PP\u00a0 Horse ID\u00a0 Horse\u00a0 Owner\u00a0 Jockey\u00a0 Odds\u00a0 <BR>1 73817 THE BEAST GOES ON\u00a0 marsattack\u00a0 R Gibson\u00a0\u00a0 9\/2\u00a0 <BR>2 2613 RESEVOIR DOG(IRE)\u00a0 benharper\u00a0 T Connor\u00a0\u00a0 9\/1\u00a0 <BR>3 76658 OBSCENE MALE\u00a0 club10\u00a0 R Rigdon\u00a0\u00a0 6\/1\u00a0 <BR>4 10453 FLAWLESS VICTORY\u00a0 jacklad\u00a0 J Ruckriegel\u00a0\u00a0 13\/1\u00a0 <BR>5 50681 JAM TODAY\u00a0 phalaris\u00a0 B Todd\u00a0\u00a0 9\/1\u00a0 <BR>6 16374 FLUMINENSE\u00a0 miltinho\u00a0 H Knott\u00a0\u00a0 5\/1\u00a0 <BR>7 57283 CRIMSON PROSPECTOR\u00a0 marianus\u00a0 P General\u00a0 7\/2\u00a0 <BR>8 85501 RONALDO&#8217;S SWORD\u00a0 jh\u00a0 J Gibbs\u00a0\u00a0 2\/1 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Here&#8217;s a preview of this week&#8217;s featured The CAPONE Stakes\u00a0field:<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Breaking from the hedge is Marsattack&#8217;s veteran lawnmower, <STRONG>The Beast Goes On<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Six year old Beastie has lost a step or two since his glory days but the dual grade II winner can still fire a big bullet on occasion.\u00a0 Will this be one of those days?<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><STRONG>Resevoir Dog<\/STRONG> has been a nice claim for crafty high percentage trainer Benharper.\u00a0 But the big Giant&#8217;s Causeway stallion has never had\u00a0much luck in allowances, much less stakes company.\u00a0 This\u00a0will be\u00a0his first career added money event and he\u00a0looks seriously overmatched.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Millionaire <STRONG>Obscene Male<\/STRONG> has drawn post three.\u00a0 Club10&#8217;s handsome son of Spinning World is best remembered as the 2003 Grade I. United Countries hero at Atlantic City.\u00a0 In that\u00a0event he spotted arch rival Sarahs Blues a huge lead in what was a virtual match race.\u00a0 Obscene Male came charging down the middle of the racetrack to nip Blues by the narrowest of noses in a stirring finish.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the third place horse, Chronic Vacuum,\u00a0finished some twenty-nine lengths behind the embattled millionaires.\u00a0 Obscene Male may be past his prime but that back class allows him a shot to do it on memory alone.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Next in line is outsider <STRONG>Flawless Victory<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Jacklad&#8217;s well bred (Kingmambo x Storm Cat) sophomore shows a lot of promise.\u00a0 The flashy chestnut has won four of his last five races and comes off a romping score in a tough\u00a0Irish allowance.\u00a0 Not to be dismissed despite his odds.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><STRONG>Jam Today<\/STRONG> is one of those horses that every trainer would love to have in his barn.\u00a0\u00a0Phalaris&#8217; homebred\u00a0runs his heart out every time he steps on the track and has hit the board in twenty-five of his thirty-five career starts.\u00a0 Although he&#8217;s not won a stake yet, he&#8217;s been close on several occasions and cannot be ruled out.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Miltinho sends out his highly consistent four year old <STRONG>Fluminence<\/STRONG> for this test.\u00a0 The son of Deputy Minister arrives in peak form having finished first or second in four straight including a win and place in stakes at this exact distance.\u00a0 Major threat today.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Veteran conditioner Marianus sends out\u00a0his fast and classy <STRONG>Crimson Prospector<\/STRONG> in search of\u00a0his one-hundred-forty-first career training\u00a0triumph.\u00a0 Known primarily for his extreme success with younger horses (Kepler Gnaget, Kepler In Desert, Kepler Carson, etc.), Marianus has the\u00a0five year old Red Ransom horse\u00a0in peak form for this event.\u00a0 Look for the graded placed stakes winner to be running late from well off the early pace.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Favored <STRONG>Ronaldo&#8217;s Sword<\/STRONG> is a multiple stakes winner who has missed the board in only two of nineteen career starts.\u00a0 Jh&#8217;s five year old homebred Pentelicus stallion has won three turf stakes in his last six outings.\u00a0 His &#8220;drop from the clouds&#8221; style has produced enough drama lately to leave his backers breathless.\u00a0 He turned a thirteen length deficit into a going away victory two back.\u00a0 Last time out his big rally left him a half length shy of the winner.\u00a0 The one to beat.<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Come out early as the first two thousand fans will receive a free\u00a0autographed copy of Tbgifted&#8217;s new\u00a0book, &#8220;Ela-Mana-Mou and Me.&#8221;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obscene Male Looms The Danger<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}