{"id":28710,"date":"2015-01-21T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/top-10-in-the-road-to-the-kentucky-derby-3\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:06:00","slug":"top-10-in-the-road-to-the-kentucky-derby-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/top-10-in-the-road-to-the-kentucky-derby-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 in the &#8216;Road to the Kentucky Derby&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; International Star, trained by Mike Maker, scored his first dirt victory last Saturday in Fair Grounds&#8217; Lecomte Stakes and picked up 10 points to draw even with El Kabeir on the lead in the &#8220;Road to the Kentucky Derby&#8221; points system.<\/p>\n<p>The Lecomte is Fair Grounds first of three stakes in the Derby points system which determines the 20-horse starting field for the Run for the Roses on Saturday, May 2. The Risen Star is Feb. 21 and Louisiana Derby March 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been training very well,&#8221; Maker said. &#8220;We expected a big race &#8211; maybe not that big &#8211; but he was coming into the race great. We&#8217;ll bring him back to Florida and take a hard look at the Risen Star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El Kabeir and International Star each have 21 points followed by Carpe Diem (14), Calculator (14), Texas Red (12), Mr. Z (12), Far Right (12), Ocho Ocho Ocho (10), American Pharoah (10), Daredevil (10), Dortmund (10), Leave the Light On (10) and Lucky Player (10).<\/p>\n<p>Gulfstream Park has the Holy Bull Stakes on Saturday as the only points-worthy stakes this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; International Star, trained by Mike Maker, scored his first dirt victory last Saturday in Fair Grounds&#8217; Lecomte Stakes and picked up 10 points to draw even with El Kabeir on the lead in the &#8220;Road to the Kentucky Derby&#8221; points system. The Lecomte is Fair Grounds first of three stakes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}