{"id":6464,"date":"2008-08-22T21:21:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=6464"},"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=6464","title":{"rendered":"The Our Frowns Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OUR FROWNS Stakes for three-year-olds and up, to be contested at a 1 1\/16 miles over the fast dirt for $35,000, has drawn an unusually full field of ten horses. Good luck trying to cash a ticket here – it’s hard to completely eliminate any horse from contention, and nearly impossible to separate half the field.<\/P>

1 (5\/1) – Stakes-placed SMART BUCK (KY) <\/B>is remarkably consistent – he’s run speed figures in the 100s or just under in every race since April of 2007. With a full field of ten talented horses in the gate, he’ll need to run as good or better as he did in The KEPLER STAR Challenge earlier this month.<\/P><\/B>

2 (6\/1) – SILVER AND BLACK (JPN) <\/B>never ran as a two-year-old, but came roaring out of the gate in May of his three-year-old season. He’s never run a bad race and has steadily improved throughout his career. He’s coming off a second-place finish in a tough allowance race and should be competitive here.<\/P><\/B>

3 (6\/1) – URBAN LORD<\/B>, a five-year-old by Storm Cat, has had plenty of success on the allowance circuit but has never run in a stakes race. He’ll try to make it three wins in a row here.<\/P><\/B>

4 (9\/2) – PRIDENPREJUDICE (KY) <\/B>has earnings totaling ten times as much as some of his competition, thanks to a sparkling record as a three-year-old. He’s the winner of the Grade II Trial by Night Stakes, and is Grade I stakes-placed. Despite the impressive resume, he’ll be battling with a number of horses for a part of the prize. He can still hold his own against listed stakes horses – he won The FLAG TILL KINGS Stakes last time out in late June – but hasn’t improved significantly since his three-year-old year.<\/P><\/B>

5 (13\/1) – EURO SPY (KY)<\/B>, a Eurosilver colt, generally runs speed figures in the mid-90s, but periodically jumps up and turns in a triple-digit effort. With a full field and numerous horses consistently running as fast as Euro Spy does on his best days, he’ll need the race of his life to hit the board Saturday.<\/P><\/B>

6 (9\/1) – SHE PLAYS ME (KY) <\/B>is in a similar position to Euro Spy. While he’s clearly talented and hasn’t been throwing clunkers, he can’t afford to run in the mid-90s Saturday and hope to be successful against this group. He’ll need to duplicate his winning form from The YOUR PIGEON Handicap – the 109 speed figure he ran there would give him a shot.<\/P>

7 (13\/1) – Stakes-placed MEDISERVE (FR)<\/B> belongs in the same tier as EURO SPY and SHE PLAYS ME, the horses next to him in the starting gate. A good showing is possible, but he’ll need to be at his very best.<\/P>

8 (6\/1) – PIXELATED PONY <\/B>ran brilliantly last time out in an allowance race, scoring a 112 speed figure. A repeat of that performance would give him a good chance to hit the board or even win.<\/P>

9 (4\/1) – Lukewarm favorite COUNTRY SONGS <\/B>has the fastest speed figure in the field – a 113 from January of this year. She’s run speed figures above 100 for a year, but even another good race is no guarantee against this tough, well-matched field.<\/P>

10 (12\/1) – VITTORIOSO (IRE) <\/B>has rebounded well from a dismal showing in an April allowance race, where he just ran a 49. He’s improved in all three races since then. If he can build on that form and crank out another four-to-five point improvement, he could be in with a chance.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well-matched field makes for an exciting 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-6464","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\/6464","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=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}