{"id":7939,"date":"2010-04-04T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=7939"},"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=7939","title":{"rendered":"Curly Q&#8217;s Stretch Run Sends Him To Louisville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Halfway through the running of yesterday&#8217;s Cal Derby, the fans were wondering if <STRONG>CURLY Q<\/STRONG> was going ever get started, as he sleepwalked along in last place, almost 14 lengths back of pacesetter <STRONG>PINEAPPLE EXPRESS<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Even midway through the far turn, the Curlin colt was still ten lengths back, having just gotten past one horse.<\/P><P>Suddenly, <EM>lgbost2y<\/EM>&#8216;s colt unleashed a dramatic run at the top of the lane and zoomed past them all in Silkjy Sullivan-like fashion to collect his ticket to Louisville in this &#8220;Derby Lock&#8221; race as the fans roared their approval.<\/P><P>16\/1 longshot <STRONG>MAMBO HEAT<\/STRONG> slipped past <STRONG>PINEAPPLE EXPRESS<\/STRONG> late and grabbed the place money, a length back.<\/P><P><STRONG>CURLY Q<\/STRONG> earned a 103 speed figure for his win, in which he stopped the timer in 1:48.3 for the nine furlongs.\u00a0 It was his second consecutive graded-stakes win, and also his 2nd straight 3-digit speed rating.<\/P><P>&#8220;It sure is hard on my ticker to see such a late run like that!&#8221;, said <EM>lgbost2y<\/EM>, a veteran trainer having a banner year as he had two Grade 1 winners yesterday.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s been a terrific day for the lgbost stable group.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2nd Consecutive Graded Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"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-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","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\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}