{"id":9639,"date":"2015-06-07T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2015-06-07T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:33:18","slug":"how-odd-i-dont-like-horse-racing-but-am-thrilled-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9639","title":{"rendered":"How odd? I don&#8217;t like horse-racing, but am thrilled today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Someone has to explain this one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at all nuts about watching horses running around a track with a mini-man perched on the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do excited when a horse wins the first two legs of the Triple Crown. And then I get <em>really<\/em> excited when the same horse wins the third one.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/horseracingspecial\/american-pharoah-becomes-1st-triple-crown-winner-in-37-years\/ar-BBkMGCO<\/p>\n<p>That was my state of mind this evening as I watched American Pharoah win the Triple Crown, becoming the first horse since 1978 (Affirmed) to accomplish the feat. It&#8217;s the longest stretch between Triple Crown winners in Triple Crown history.<\/p>\n<p>Secretariat remains the\u00a0gold standard for horse-racing excellence. What&#8217;s more,\u00a0Secretariat won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths. Jockey Ron Turcotte ever laid a land on his steed. In fact, he was unaware of the distance between his mount and the next one until they turned down the stretch and Turcotte said he couldn&#8217;t hear any other horse sounds: hooves pounding or horses snorting.<\/p>\n<p>This one was good. American Pharoah led from the gate and took it all the way home.<\/p>\n<p>However, consider this: It comes from someone commenting on a friend&#8217;s Facebook post about which horse is the best in history. This fellow said Secretariat&#8217;s winning time in the Belmont Stakes would have put him 15 lengths ahead of American Pharoah.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the newest Triple Crown winner joins some heady company.<\/p>\n<p>Well done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has to explain this one. I&#8217;m not at all nuts about watching horses running around a track with a mini-man perched on the saddle. However, I do excited when a horse wins the first two legs of the Triple Crown. And then I get really excited when the same horse wins the third one. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How odd? I don&#8217;t like horse-racing, but am thrilled today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[364,583,4012,4172,4915,4916],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-american-pharoah","tag-belmont-stakes","tag-ron-turcotte","tag-secretariat","tag-triple-crown","tag-triple-crown-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}