{"id":8061,"date":"2010-05-16T19:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=8061"},"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=8061","title":{"rendered":"BUDA AT THE SLEW takes Saint Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><P><STRONG>By ITCH<\/STRONG><\/P><P><EM>Topicount&#8217;s<\/EM> <STRONG>BUDA AT THE SLEW<\/STRONG> rose to No. 5 in the long turf division and No. 7 in the route turf division for 3yo fillies with a stout score here in Paris on Saturday in the <EM><STRONG>$500,000 Grade I Saint Larry.<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/P><P>Racing on only two weeks&#8217; rest, Buda at the Slew showed no ill effects and instead ran the best race of her life, bounding home much the best and earning a lifetime-best speed figure of 105.<\/P><P>A lot of the credit for that big speed figure goes to the second-place runner, <EM>Tees Stable&#8217;s<\/EM> <STRONG>HOOHAH<\/STRONG>, who made this writer look foolish with a very strong effort. Hoohah set the pace and took a lot of passing by BATS. What&#8217;s more, Hoohah stuck with the winner after she went by, carrying her speed resolutely until the end. Her strong effort put her 8 1\/2 lengths clear of the show filly, which was <EM>Foxon&#8217;s<\/EM> <STRONG>FANTASY UPDATE.<\/STRONG> An impressive race for Hoohah, who did indeed show herself classwise.<\/P><P>But, the race belonged to the favorite. Buda at the Slew pressed Hoohah throughout, then passed and drew away even as that one ran her eyeballs out. <\/P><P>Thanks for the trip to Paris, and it&#8217;s back to West Virginia to spend these credits.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topicount&#8217;s filly rises to Top 10 in both turf divisions<\/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-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","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=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}