{"id":7021,"date":"2011-03-11T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:52:33","slug":"action-on-the-derby-trail-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7021","title":{"rendered":"Action on the Derby trail this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/UNCLE-MO-WINS-BREEDERS-CUP-JUVENILE-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7022\" title=\"UNCLE MO WINS BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/UNCLE-MO-WINS-BREEDERS-CUP-JUVENILE-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>Uncle Mo, undefeated 2-year-old Eclipse champion and early favorite for the Kentucky Derby, makes his 3-year-old debut on Saturday, in the Timely Writer Stakes at Gulfstream Park. His last race was the $2 million Breeders&#8217; Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs on November 6, which he won by 4 1\/4 lengths.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Mike Repole purchased the Indian Charlie colt for $220,000 at the Keeneland Yearling Sale and put him in the hands of Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher, who celebrated his first Kentucky Derby victory in 2010 with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4110\">Super Saver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Pletcher-trained Brethren, a half-brother to Super Saver bred and owned by WinStar Farm, goes to post in the Tampa Bay Derby. The Distorted Humor son, undefeated in three starts, came into focus as a possible Derby contender after his 4-length victory in the Sam Davis Stakes, at Tampa Bay on February 12.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday at Aqueduct, Repole and Pletcher sent out Stay Thirsty, by Bernardini, to win the Gotham Stakes and make another claim among early Derby favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Mo, undefeated 2-year-old Eclipse champion and early favorite for the Kentucky Derby, makes 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-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7034,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}