{"id":6310,"date":"2008-07-21T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=6310"},"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=6310","title":{"rendered":"Pulprat Too Much For Competition In Love Muffins Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT size=2>On a beautiful sunny Saturday at the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Ohio<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> track, all eyes were to the sky when there wasn\u2019t a race going on at the track.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The rumors were flying, and everybody was hoping to catch the first glimpse to the Trump helicopter that was supposed to be carrying the official awards presenter of the fifteenth race, the G III Love Muffins Stakes.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Alas, the chopper never arrived and with it no tiara or sash for this years winner PULPRAT.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><FONT size=2>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT size=2>Not that this lack of a celebrity appearance seemed to affect the runners.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Right out of the gate, BASSETT GIRL grabbed the lead ahead of PULPRAT and held on by no more than a neck at the half way point.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>MP JO and HAWKEYESTATEOFMIND were running third and fourth respectively about two to three lengths back of the leaders while PERSIAN CAVALRY, POMEROY\u2019S QUEST, and PREDILECTION were at the back.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>At the half mark and continuing into the stretch, the odds on favorite displayed why she was the popular choice by turning on a very nice closing kick.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>BASSETT GIRL gave a good effort to keep up the charging mare, but just could not keep the pace PULPRAT was setting.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While the battle was taking place in the front of the pack, MP JO was fading badly giving HAWKEYESTATEOFMIND sole possession of third.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This possession seemed solid until the final half of the stretch when a hard charging PREDILECTION came from the back of the pack to just make the board.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Because of this generousity, HAWKEYESTATEOFMIND was voted Ms. Congeniality and enjoyed a basket of apples.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>PULPRAT paid $6.70 for the win, BASSETT GIRL $5.30 for the place, and PREDILECTION $4.70 for the show.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>There was no word from the Trump camp on why the billionaire was a \u2018no show.\u2019<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump a No Show, Ms. Congeniality Prefers Apples Over Oats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"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-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","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\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}