{"id":782,"date":"2005-10-03T05:49:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T05:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=782"},"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=782","title":{"rendered":"The General Marches On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>General\u2019s Chariot treated his contemporaries with disdain in capturing his 8th graded race on Saturday in Iowa. The General gave the rest of the field a master-class in how a sprint race should be run by settling off a suicidal pace at the front end and then moving into overdrive as they hit the stretch. His change of gear was the attribute that set him apart here, as he gobbled up the leaders with relish and moved imperiously clear of a game Drunken Lullabies who ran on in vain pursuit for second. Day Vision ran an eye-catching 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP> as he began to reel in the leaders fast and late.<\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>\u00a0<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>Two divisions for the 3yo colts on turf are now dominated by one horse. For Horseshoe Bay in the long division, read General\u2019s Chariot in the sprint division. It may be that Horseshoe Bay\u2019s grip on the 3yo championship is not as firm as it was, with the General putting in a spirited challenge for year-end honors.<\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>Horseshoe Bay has yet to face his elders and may do so this week, whereas General\u2019s Chariot has already been there and done that. A cheeky \u00bd length victory in his penultimate race, the <I>Cane Toad Stakes-G2<\/I> showing that there is little to fear from the older brigade.<\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>On this evidence it will take a good horse to lower the General\u2019s colors in races up to a mile and the predicament facing owner proudtruth (<I>snowchief<\/I>) now, is whether to move him back up to a mile for the Breeder\u2019s Bowl where he has been less effective. However, a win in that event would give him even more weight when it came to deciding Eclipse honors. <\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US><\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-US>What would you do?<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number One turf sprinter dominates his division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"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-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","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\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}