{"id":271,"date":"2007-09-01T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2007-09-01T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T02:30:44","slug":"separate-bet-could-be-best-bet-in-all-american-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Separate Bet could be best bet in All American Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/separate_bet_20070817.jpg\" \/>Separate Bet could take a big step towards the world championship when he puts his undefeated 2007 record on the line in the Grade 1, $504,000 All American Derby on Sunday afternoon at Ruidoso Downs. The 7-5 morning-line favorite has been perfect for 5-time defending national champion trainer Paul Jones this summer, with four wins from four starts.<\/p>\n<p>The gray Separatist-sired gelding started this season by setting a Ruidoso Downs 400-yard record of :19.18, in his return from a winter\u2019s rest. Jones brought Separate Bet back in the trials to the Grade 1, $448,000 Rainbow Derby and he qualified while winning his trial by more than two lengths, then cruised through the Derby finals by an equally large margin.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained his form in the All American Derby trials, when he won with the fastest qualifying time. Dont Let Down and Valiant Hero, with the second and third-fastest times, ran in the same trial.<\/p>\n<p>Separate Bet starts from the sixth post position under jockey Freddie Martinez. Dont Let Down won the Grade 1 Dash For Cash Futurity at Lone Star Park last fall and was second to Valiant Hero in the Grade 2 Heritage Place Derby in June. Valiant Hero, a sale-topping $500,000 yearling purchase at the Ruidoso Select Quarter Horse Yearling Sale and winner of the $1 million Texas Classic Futurity, has earnings of $643,398.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate Bet could take a big step towards the world championship when he puts his&#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-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}