{"id":947,"date":"2005-10-20T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Forty KT Gold aims for 3-in-a-row; Baby Capote, Leilia close matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><STRONG>Oregon<\/STRONG>&#8211; This week&#8217;s featured <EM>$55,000 Arctic Clown Challenge<\/EM> boasts a short but competitive field of\u00a05 sprint distaffers.\u00a0 There doesn&#8217;t seem to be natural speed with this group, so anyone&#8217;s guess as to\u00a0who shall inheirt a solo lead&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>On the rail, david77777 sends out the hot <STRONG>Forty KT Gold<\/STRONG> (5\/2).\u00a0 The 4YO daughter of Forty Niner currently rides a two stakes race win streak that includes a trimuphal trip here at Oregon last month.\u00a0\u00a0 In that 7f contest, Forty KT Gold pedaled gamely behind the pace to to pull away much the best with a 104 SP#.\u00a0 She had previously scored in listed company over the lawn.\u00a0 The wonderful filly has captured over $800k for her trainer from 27 calls to the post.\u00a0 She gets her adoring seven panels again Saturday to try and make it 3-in-a-row.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Buzzsaw&#8217;s <STRONG>Black Avenue<\/STRONG> presides as the longest shot on the board at 9\/1.\u00a0 The sophomore filly by black Minnaloushe hasn&#8217;t won much (3 for 20 lifetime), but enters Saturday well poised after a <STRONG>100 SP#<\/STRONG> 7f dirt ALW score.\u00a0\u00a0 Predominantly a stalker, the filly switched to pacesetting in that effort and that tactic\u00a0could pay off dividends again since there isn&#8217;t much true speed in this race.\u00a0\u00a0However, Black Avenue needs her career best to match these more classy older mares.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Racetime favorite <STRONG>Baby Capote<\/STRONG> (6\/5) breaks from post 3.\u00a0 The 5YO graded stakes winner took a two-race win streak into her last and just\u00a0missed over 6.5f.\u00a0 Blaster6&#8217;s Capote daughter is certainly the\u00a0class of the field with over $1.1 million in career earnings.\u00a0\u00a0She&#8217;ll need to bring her late-closing running shoes this week though &#8212; not a lot of pace to run at here, so if she falls to far behind, that&#8217;ll be all she wrote.\u00a0 Still, the one to beat hands\u00a0down.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>The Meadowlake sophomore <STRONG>Lake Forest CA<\/STRONG> (5\/1)\u00a0could\u00a0spoil the show in a mild upset.\u00a0\u00a0 The youngster is already a stakes winner after 10 outings and has been awfully close in her last two versus her elders.\u00a0\u00a0Versatile little gal still learning the ropes for mistabone stable.\u00a0 &#8216;Lake could settle back from the pace or even sieze the lead from fellow sophomore Black Avenue.\u00a0 She has the SP#s to\u00a0be right there for the prize, but can she accept the 7f?<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Finally, Danehill daughter <STRONG>Leilia <\/STRONG>(5\/2) was a merry gal\u00a0earlier this summer, winning listed sprint grades left and right.\u00a0 The performances earned her a go at the graded level and the 4YO filly fared honestly too (beaten 5 1\/2 lengths in fine Grade 2 company time).\u00a0 However, it took a couple of starts for thebigo trainee to get back on track and her trainer is to be commended for dropping back to the ALW level.\u00a0 It resulted in a superb 101 SP# confidence-boosting score from off pace.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Leilia still has places to go &#8212;\u00a0top jockey in the irons makes her one to watch.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><U>Snowchief&#8217;s Picks<\/U>:<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>The sophomore pair of Black Avenue and Lake Forest CA should duke it\u00a0out in a mildly set pace.\u00a0 Forty KT Gold\u00a0 though will overcome them easily at the top of the stretch.\u00a0 Closers Baby Capote and Leilia chase her home with Baby Capote much the best in deep stretch.\u00a0 <\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Win:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baby Capote<\/DIV><DIV>Place:\u00a0 Leilia<\/DIV><DIV>Show:\u00a0 Forty KT Gold<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>Good luck to all.\u00a0 <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7f dirt for 3yo+ distaffers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}