{"id":729,"date":"2005-09-28T21:19:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=729"},"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=729","title":{"rendered":"Skippy Hopscotches Tough GSR Diamond Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Skippy<\/STRONG> skimmed the rail on the turn, and ran down moderate early fractions en route to a two-length victory Saturday, in the $500,000 GSR Diamond at California.<\/P><P>First <STRONG>Ransom&#8217;s Ecstasy<\/STRONG> and then <STRONG>Building Empires<\/STRONG> set a rather modest, moderate early pace for the opening half-mile.\u00a0 The pace was mild enough that the late-running <STRONG>Skippy<\/STRONG> began her stretch run with about\u00a0a half-mile\u00a0remaining.\u00a0 She started rolling on the rail, and reached full stride at the top of the lane.\u00a0 The narrow 8.20-1 favorite took the lead a furlong out, and finished strong for what looked to be an easy win.\u00a0 <STRONG>Pro Dubai<\/STRONG>, who worked her way through the field on the outside, got clear of the pacesetters too late to be second, while <STRONG>Assistant<\/STRONG>, rolling at the same time the winner was moving, belatedly got up for third.\u00a0 Early pace-setter <STRONG>Building Empires<\/STRONG>, showing good tactical speed, alas faded to fourth.<\/P><P>Despite the patient early pace, the winning daughter of Afleet-Sally Roo, by Buckaroo, earned a speed figure of 91, running the mile in a splendid final time of 1:36 2\/5.\u00a0 She earned $300,000 for the stables of <EM><STRONG>scout4<\/STRONG><\/EM>, who now has two things to crow about: <STRONG>Skippy<\/STRONG> is not only the Breeders Bowl Juvenile Filly favorite, but she&#8217;s the top dirt two-year-old filly in the classic and long divisions.\u00a0 It is largely expected that this promising young lass will train up to next month&#8217;s Breeders Bowl event, October 29, or week 2657, over the sweeping surface in New York.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 Dirt 2YO Filly Breeders Bowl Bound As Favorite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}