{"id":9514,"date":"2011-08-20T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=9514"},"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=9514","title":{"rendered":"The Upper New York Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class told in the Upper New York Special Stakes as the top four choices filled the top four spots.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Overall fourteen horses lined up for the Grade Two worth $150,000. Flip Flop Tip Top (Henny Hughes) was favored based on three strong stakes runs \u2013 a win in the Elite Groom Ted Dirt Juvenile, second by a length in the Grade Three Montana Futurity and fifth beaten only three lengths in the Grade Two Horserhead Juvenile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Second choice was Fleetwood Forest (Forestry) who was also coming off three stakes races \u2013 a win in the Wonderboy Eamon Dirt Juvenile, second by a nose in the Grade Two Vermont BB Juvenile and sixth in the Grade Two Hoserhead Juvenile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Co-third choices were Golden Gimlet (Tanino Gimlet) and Major Alex (Daiwa Major).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Golden Gimlet was making his stakes debut off three straight wins.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Major Alex was the only graded winner in the field, having taken the Grade Three Manor of Bashford Stakes in his last start.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>

Fleetwood Forest came out of the gate like a rocket trying to take the field wire to wire.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He set testing fractions throughout the race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Golden Gimlet tracked in second, while Major Alex was third early on.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Flip Flop Tip Top, as is his style, dropped well back early.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was tenth at both the first and second call of the race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Halfway through the race Fleetwood Forest opened up a 2 \u00be lengths lead over Golden Gimlet and Major Alex who had edged closer.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Entering the stretch those two still trailed Fleetwood Forest by 2 \u00bc lengths but Major Alex unleashed a furious rally to run past Fleetwood Forest.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Just as Major Alex put a neck in front Fleetwood Forest battled back bravely closing the distance to a final nose loss.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Golden Gimlet held well for third 1 \u00be lengths behind while Flip Flop Tip Top closed well to be fourth, beaten three lengths.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>

The win is just the second graded race for the young Jet Stables (the first being the Manor of Bashford).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The winning trainer must obviously now be considering the Breeders Bowl Juvenile for his young charge.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 97sp shared by both Major Alex and Fleetwood Forest is the highest juvenile sp of the year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The win likely propelled Major Alex to the top of the two year old dirt sprint ratings.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>

Interestingly the top ranked turf route two year old is also a son of Daiwa Major, a young stallion from Japan.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Daiwa Major is in his third year at stud and has produced 70.8% winners, 3.2% stakes winners and 1.6% graded winners.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A son of Sunday Silence out of the stakes winning mare Scarlet Bouquet by Northern Taste, Daiwa Major was a multiple Group One winner in his native country and was named Champion Sprinter\/Miler in 2006.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Major Alex is out of the f-grade Awesome Again x Storm Cat mare Beatbenwithastick.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has produced two other foals, a graded winner by A.P. Indy and an allowance runner by the same sire.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>\u00a0\u00a0<\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A New Leader Emerges In the 2yo Division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"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-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514","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\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}