{"id":893,"date":"2008-11-09T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2008-11-09T21:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:17:49","slug":"undefeated-peppers-pride-wins-record-18th-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Peppers Pride wins record 18th race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/PeppersPride_11_9_08.006.JPG\" class=\"floatright\" \/>Five-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=788\">Peppers Pride broke her own record <\/a>of most consecutive wins by a Thoroughbred on Sunday, November 9, in the New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Fillies and Mares at Zia Park. It was her 18th win in 18 starts.<\/p>\n<p>With regular rider Carlos Madeira aboard for owner Joe Allen and trainer Joel Marr, Peppers Pride raced the mile in 1:38 1\/5 to finish one length ahead of La Sorpresa. In her previous start, a Zia Park allowance race, she broke the record she held with Triple Crown winner Citation, two-time Horse of the Year Cigar, Santa Anita Derby winner Mr Frisky, and Louisiana-based sprinter Hallowed Dreams.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that this filly is not Citation or Cigar,&#8221; said Allen, referring to comments from some of the Thoroughbred media. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t been the ones to compare her to those horses. We&#8217;re just glad to have her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sired by the Fappiano son Desert God, Peppers Pride was bred by Allen out of stakes-placed Lady Pepper, and started by Marr at two. She has raced strictly against other New Mexico-bred females, at distances of 5 1\/2 furlongs to one mile, and has won 13 of her 18 starts in stakes company.<\/p>\n<p>Although Allen had suggested he would retire Peppers Pride after her record-breaking win, Marr said she could race in the New Mexico Racing Commission Handicap at Sunland Park in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>The New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Fillies and Mares was one of 11 state-bred races at Zia Park on November 11. Total purses of $1,850,000 makes the New Mexico Classic Cup the richest program of state-bred racing in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-year-old Peppers Pride broke her own record of most consecutive wins by a Thoroughbred 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":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}