{"id":1102,"date":"2009-04-30T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2009-04-30T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T16:59:39","slug":"former-race-champ-rescued-from-final-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Former race champ rescued from final finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/keen_Dallas.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/>Ten years ago, when I produced a tip sheet for Lone Star Park, Lights On Broadway was always a reliable pick for a ticket at the North Texas track, where he was named\u00a0 2001 Texas Horse of the Year. But last year, the Texas-bred gelding was on a fast track to the final finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/808\/story\/1348573.html\">here <\/a>to read Gary West&#8217;s excellent article in the <em>Fort Worth Star Telegram<\/em> about Lights On Broadway, who was rescued from slaughter and is now at home with race trainer Dallas Keen (pictured in 2001)\u00a0and his wife, Donna, who retrain former racehorses for new careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, when I produced a tip sheet for Lone Star Park, Lights On&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}