{"id":7568,"date":"2011-05-21T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7568"},"modified":"2011-05-21T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T00:31:22","slug":"shackelford-shakes-off-animal-kingdom-in-preakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7568","title":{"rendered":"Shackleford shakes off Animal Kingdom in Preakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.preakness.com\/race-info\/contenders\/5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7569\" title=\"ShacklefordX700 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShacklefordX700-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" \/>Shackleford<\/a>, pace setter in the 1 1\/4-mile\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rQsMgu9rr1k\">Kentucky Derby <\/a>two weeks ago, held off Derby winner and 5-2 favorite Animal Kingdom to win the $1 million Preakness Stakes by three-quarters of a length, at 12-1. The time for the 1 1\/16-mile race was 1:56.4. Astrology placed third. Dialed In, beaten favorite in the Kentucky Derby, finished fourth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that (Animal Kingdom) was the only horse able to come get me,&#8221; said Shackleford&#8217;s rider, Jesus Castanon. But my horse was able to hold him off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He ran a huge race, but it looked like he needed another sixteenth of a mile,&#8221; said Animal Kingdom&#8217;s trainer, Graham Motion, referring to the one-sixteenth of a mile difference between the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.<\/p>\n<p>Shackleford&#8217;s trainer, Dale Romans, and Animal Kingdom&#8217;s rider, John Valezquez, each had concerns as the leaders approached the quarter pole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worried whether he could hang on to the fast pace,&#8221; said Romans of Shackleford, who got nailed by a head, at 60-1,\u00c2\u00a0by Dialed In, in the stretch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lkhS2DYmOo8\">Florida Derby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t leave the gate very good today,&#8221; said Valezquez of Animal Kingdom. &#8220;But at the quarter pole, I thought he had a chance. It was just a little too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shackleford, by Forestry, was bred by his owners Michael Lauffer and W.D. Cubbedge. Lauffer paid $500,000 in 2008 for 2-year-old Rachel Alexander, who would win the 2009 Preakness for Jess Jackson, after Jackson paid Lauffer and his partner a reported $10 million for the mare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shackleford, pace setter in the 1 1\/4-mile\u00c2\u00a0Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, held off Derby winner&#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-7568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568","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=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}