{"id":921,"date":"2005-10-14T23:52:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T23:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=921"},"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=921","title":{"rendered":"Bella Figura Captures Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Bella Figura <\/B>was 15 lengths behind what appeared to be a runaway winner before she started her move around the final turn and made up an incredible nine lengths in the stretch to capture the $250,000 Grade II Milky Way Stakes.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The winner paid $8.00 $4.00 $3.20 as she captured her ninth graded stakes win and go over the $1.5 million in earnings for the <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">SgtBones<\/I> stable.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Favored <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">A Gold City<\/B> got the early and easy lead she was looking for and looked to be cruising to an easy win, only to be collared at the wire by Bella Figura.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The win moved Bella Figura from a number 11 rating in the classic turf division up to a number 9 rating.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Despite losing the heartbreaker, A Gold City actually moved up in the ratings from 4<SUP>th<\/SUP> to 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP>.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It is doubtful that either of the top two fillies will have time to recover in time to run the upcoming Breeders Bowl.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Finishing third was <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Prospector Villa.<\/B><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She wasn\u2019t quick enough to run with A Gold City, but she showed gameness in holding the show position.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The Crafty Prospector filly may be one to watch.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Like a Shot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}