{"id":8091,"date":"2010-05-24T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=8091"},"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=8091","title":{"rendered":"Cosmopolitan Mile Lives Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in\"><FONT size=2>Usually, nothing ever seems to match the hype, but the Cosmopolitan Mile sure did&#8230;<\/FONT><BR><\/P><P style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in\"><FONT size=2>After quietly rolling along midpack through the early running, <B>HOT AND SPICY<\/B><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\"> charged up and caught the front-runners <\/SPAN><\/FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">just in time, signifying that he may indeed be truly back to form after his subpar winter\/spring performances.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><BR><\/P><P style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in\"><FONT size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">It was the second consecutive time that the 4yo chestnut son of Awesome Again pulled off a graded-stakes win at 13\/1 (Looks like the CPU needs to begin paying this guy some respect). \u201cSpicy\u201d garnered his sixth career graded-stakes win and pushed his Sim bankroll over the $3 million mark in the process.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><BR><\/P><P style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in\"><FONT size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">After battling for the lead throughout, <\/SPAN><B>JUILLET BLUES<\/B><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\"> looked like he was going to take the Cosmo after winning the pace duel with 3rd-place finisher <\/SPAN><B>WATERGATE SCANDAL<\/B><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">, but <\/SPAN><B>HOT AND SPICY<\/B><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\"> proved to be just a little too much. <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><P style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in\">\u201c<FONT size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">I&#8217;m glad to see this colt get his mojo back! I think he can hold it together longer now that he&#8217;s more mature\u201d, said trainer <\/SPAN><I><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">londoner<\/SPAN><\/I><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><BR><\/P><P style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in\"><FONT size=2><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\">Should this\u00a0prove true, <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal\"><B>HOT AND SPICY<\/B><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\"> will be a very tough customer amongst the top middle-distance dirt runners for the rest of 2010.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot And Spicy win 2nd Straight Graded Race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"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-8091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091","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\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}