{"id":29572,"date":"2015-02-13T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/war-story-scratched-from-southwest-probable-for-risen-star\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:57:00","slug":"war-story-scratched-from-southwest-probable-for-risen-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/war-story-scratched-from-southwest-probable-for-risen-star\/","title":{"rendered":"War Story scratched from Southwest, probable for Risen Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans. LA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Lecomte Stakes runner-up War Story will be making his way back to Fair Grounds in time to start in the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by Loooch Racing Stable and Chris Dunn, War Story was all set to start in Monday&#8217;s $300,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park but drew post 11 in what was a 12-horse field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just didn&#8217;t work out,&#8221; trainer Tom Amoss said. &#8220;We drew an outside post position and there&#8217;s a strong statistical negative to that post. Plus, there&#8217;s a forecast for dicey weather on Monday. He worked quite well at Oaklawn (on Wednesday).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>War Story was second to International Star in the Lecomte after starting from post 4 in the 11-horse race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t break well and was widest of all turning for home,&#8221; Amoss said about War Story&#8217;s race. &#8220;He came out good, though. I was pleased even though we didn&#8217;t win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>War Story, a chestnut gelding, had been purchased by his current owners, between his first and second races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans. LA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Lecomte Stakes runner-up War Story will be making his way back to Fair Grounds in time to start in the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 21. Owned by Loooch Racing Stable and Chris Dunn, War Story was all set to start in Monday&#8217;s $300,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park [&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-29572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29572","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=29572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}