{"id":30118,"date":"2015-03-01T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/the-great-war-taken-off-derby-trail\/"},"modified":"2015-03-01T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T20:20:16","slug":"the-great-war-taken-off-derby-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/the-great-war-taken-off-derby-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great War taken off Derby trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Stakes winning 3-year-old The Great War has been taken off the Kentucky Derby trail after finishing last in Saturday&#8217;s John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill Downs was told by trainer Wesley Ward that The Great War is no longer a candidate for the 141st Kentucky Derby on May 2. Betting on The Great War was suspended prior to the start of Sunday&#8217;s third and final day of the third of four Kentucky Derby Future Wager pools.<\/p>\n<p>The Great War, owned by Joseph Allen, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith, finished 10th as the 3-10 favorite in Saturday&#8217;s $116,450 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park. The official Equibase chart of the race notes that the colt bled when he faded from second to last in the 1 1\/16-mile race.<\/p>\n<p>After beginning his career in Europe, The Great War finished fourth to Texas Red in his United States debut in the Breeders&#8217; Cup Juvenile last November at Santa Anita. He won the 96Rock Stakes at Turfway Park by 7 1\/4 lengths on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Stakes winning 3-year-old The Great War has been taken off the Kentucky Derby trail after finishing last in Saturday&#8217;s John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park. Churchill Downs was told by trainer Wesley Ward that The Great War is no longer a candidate for the 141st Kentucky Derby on May 2. Betting [&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-30118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118","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=30118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30119,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30118\/revisions\/30119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}