{"id":7914,"date":"2010-03-30T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=7914"},"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=7914","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Game Ted Assures Derby Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><U><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16pt\">The Golden Ticket Earned in The Sand<?xml:namespace prefix = o \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/U><\/B><\/P><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><U><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16pt\"><o:p><SPAN style=\"TEXT-DECORATION: none\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/U><\/B><\/P><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" class=MsoNormal align=center><B>Perfect Game TedAssures himself a Derby Spot<o:p><\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B>As the gates opened, it was <I>Spring Storms,<\/I> usinghis Gr1 speed to dictate the fractions up front. Tourist Attraction, the Gr2Swale Stakes winner was sitting just off his flank. <I>Perfect Game Ted<\/I>,The Gr1 Movieland Futurity runner-up was going to keep a close eye on the firsttier. As they got to the \u00bd mile pole, <I>Perfect Game Ted<\/I> figured it wastime to make a move to the front<I>. BigTime Favorite<\/I> was going to trackhis move and settle behind him as the original front runners started toretreat. <I>Hellhound<\/I> was making up nice ground, as he moved from 11<SUP>th<\/SUP>to 6<SUP>th<\/SUP>, only 6 lengths off the lead. <I>Solar Expedition<\/I> wasdrafting off his move and followed him to the far turn.<o:p><\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B>As they swung for home, <I>Perfect Game Ted<\/I> was usinghis distance experience to widen his margin to 1 \u00be lengths. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>Jock Cassell was all over <I>Bigtime Favorite<\/I>,pleading for him to change leads. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><I>Hellhound<\/I>was in full flight now, passing <I>Lucky\u2019s Howie. Prussian<\/I> was trying toget untracked now and make his usual closing move. <I>Solar expedition<\/I>,getting a taste of graded company was trying to keep his momentum turning forhome.<o:p><\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B>As they hit the wire, it was <I>Perfect Game Ted keeping BigtimeFavorite<\/I> at bay. <I>Hellhound<\/I> continued his big move and finished agood closing 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP>. <I>Solar Expedition<\/I> fared very admirably in onlyhis 2<SUP>nd<\/SUP> graded attempt, finishing 4<SUP>th<\/SUP> by 4 \u00bc.<o:p><\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B>Also Rans (in order of finish): <I>Prussian, Lucky\u2019sHowie, Sky <\/I><\/B><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 \/><st1:city><st1:place><B><I>Battle<\/I><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><B><I>,Spring Storms, Expense Report, <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>Gift OfThe Gab, Tourist Attraction, Tizkauf, Pinhook, <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B><st1:city><st1:place><B><I>Aurora<\/I><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><B><I>Slew Ted.<o:p><\/o:p><\/I><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal><B>Congratulations <I>to trainer Younhung<\/I> and his <\/B><st1:city><st1:place><B>Derby<\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><B>starter <I>Perfect Game Ted<\/I>. He earned 1.2 million for the victory and nowboasts $1.7 million in career earnings.<o:p><\/o:p><\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Ticket Earned In The Sand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"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-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","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\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}