{"id":9436,"date":"2013-03-06T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wise-dan-and-little-mike-nominated-to-woodford-reserve\/"},"modified":"2013-03-06T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:23:00","slug":"wise-dan-and-little-mike-nominated-to-woodford-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wise-dan-and-little-mike-nominated-to-woodford-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Dan and Little Mike nominated to Woodford Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (Sports Network) &#8211; Current Horse of the Year Wise Dan and Breeders&#8217; Cup Turf champ Little Mike are among the 62 thoroughbreds nominated to the $500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic to be run on the Kentucky Derby card at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p>Also nominated to the 1 1\/8-mile grass race are 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom. Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap champ Point of Entry and Hawthorne Gold Cup winner Pool Play.<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Charles Lopresti, Wise Dan won last year&#8217;s Breeders&#8217; Cup Mile after claiming the Woodbine and Shadwell Miles. In the opening NTRA Poll the 6-year- old gelding is fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Little Mike, trained by Dale Romans, defeated Point of Entry in the Turf on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita. Tenth in the poll, the 6-year-old gelding won last year&#8217;s Turf Classic along with the Arlington Million.<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Graham Motion, Animal Kingdom was second to Wise Dan in the Breeders&#8217; Cup Mile and returned this year to finish second to Point of Entry in the Gulfstream Park Turf. The 5-year-old is ninth in the opening rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Pool Play, trained by Mark Casse, began 2013 by finishing sixth to Graydar in the Donn Handicap. He was eighth behind Fort Larned in the Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (Sports Network) &#8211; Current Horse of the Year Wise Dan and Breeders&#8217; Cup Turf champ Little Mike are among the 62 thoroughbreds nominated to the $500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic to be run on the Kentucky Derby card at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 4. Also nominated to the 1 1\/8-mile grass race [&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-9436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","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=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}