{"id":7339,"date":"2009-03-02T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=7339"},"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=7339","title":{"rendered":"Ledwith, K&#8217;S BERTIER mash Apple Martini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><P><STRONG>By ITCH<\/STRONG><\/P><P>Many turf races, especially those at a flat mile like week 3875&#8217;s <EM><STRONG>Grade 3 Apple Martini Handicap<\/STRONG> in<\/EM> Florida, feature wild finishes and horses coming with late runs for the wire.<\/P><P>Not this time.<\/P><P><EM>Ledwith&#8217;s<\/EM> <STRONG>K&#8217;S BERTIER<\/STRONG> broke on top and controlled this race from start to finish. The 5yo chestnut son of Kingmambo rose into the Top 100 of route turf horses with a frontrunning score in the Apple Martini. He never was seriously threatened, and captured the first graded race of his career.<\/P><P>In two of three previous tries in graded company, K&#8217;s Bertier could not sustain his speed and collapsed in the lane to miss the board. There would be no such tomfoolery on Saturday. By the time they reached early stretch, the horse was in front by two and long gone.<\/P><P><EM>Sdmf&#8217;s<\/EM> <STRONG>JUDAS<\/STRONG> ran admirably to be second. This back-class 5yo chestnut son of Green Desert assumed a chasing position throughout, and did gain a bit of ground on the winner in the lane. <EM>Fabman&#8217;s <\/EM><STRONG>MRPOWERSCOURT BG<\/STRONG> made an eye-catching move late to be third.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontrunning score boosts horse to Top 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"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-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","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\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}