You’re smack\u00a0in the middle of a 20 two year old fillies, getting ready to start into traffic that’s going to make a\u00a0midtown Manhattan rush hour look like a walk in the park, you’ve only raced in 4 lifetime races before today, you’re in a Grade I race with a half million dollar purse, and your jockey has won an underwhelming 7.5% of his mounts this year. So what do you do?<\/P>
If you’re Winning Season<\/EM><\/STRONG>, a daughter of Lemon Drop Kid from a Private Account mare, you calmly and coolly navigate a stalking pace, keeping within 4 and a half lengths of the leader, then sweep on past that leader to bring home the winner’s share of the $500,000. Pre-race favorite Groomed to Romp T<\/EM><\/STRONG> ran an almost flawless race herself, getting to within a head of the leader at the third call, when she seemed ready to take charge, only to have to watch Winning Season<\/EM><\/STRONG> pull by her down the stretch. Groomed to Romp T<\/EM><\/STRONG> finished hard for the place money.<\/P> “We were looking good”, Groomed to Romp T’s<\/EM><\/STRONG> jockey D. Silver<\/EM> lamented after the race. “We had cleared Winning Season by\u00a0a length, and were ready to jump past Rosette<\/EM><\/STRONG> (the leader for three quarters of the race). We no sooner go by Rosette<\/EM><\/STRONG> than Winning Season<\/EM><\/STRONG> had another gear for us. We had a good day, but today, she was just better.”<\/P> Rosette<\/EM><\/STRONG> held off the hard charging Elusive Infinity<\/EM><\/STRONG> to round out the nicely priced trifecta that paid $1,304.60.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 14\/1 Shot Navigates Huge Field For Textbook Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"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-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}