{"id":29969,"date":"2015-02-25T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/far-right-to-skip-rebel-stakes-for-arkansas-derby\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:28:00","slug":"far-right-to-skip-rebel-stakes-for-arkansas-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/far-right-to-skip-rebel-stakes-for-arkansas-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Far Right to skip Rebel Stakes for Arkansas Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Springs, AR (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Far Right, winner of the first two stakes for 3-year-olds at Oaklawn Park, will bypass the $750,000 Rebel Stakes on March 14 to train up to the $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided to try to not just get there (to the Kentucky Derby), but get there with enough healthy horse to do some damage,&#8221; trainer Ron Moquett said. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get there with the most horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Far Right, owned by Robert LaPenta and Harry Rosenblum, won last Sunday&#8217;s $300,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn by three-quarters of a length over The Truth Or Else with Mr. Z third. Last month, Far Right won the track&#8217;s Smarty Jones Stakes. Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith was aboard for both victories and is committed to ride the colt in the Arkansas Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The Truth Or Else, trained by Ken McPeek, will start in the Rebel and Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas will have Mr. Z make his next start in the $750,000 Louisiana Derby on March 28 at Fair Grounds. Mr. Z was third in both the Smarty Jones and Southwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Springs, AR (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Far Right, winner of the first two stakes for 3-year-olds at Oaklawn Park, will bypass the $750,000 Rebel Stakes on March 14 to train up to the $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 11. &#8220;We decided to try to not just get there (to the Kentucky Derby), but get there [&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-29969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969","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=29969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}