{"id":9570,"date":"2013-07-18T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/verrazano-has-race-over-track-for-haskell\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:11:00","slug":"verrazano-has-race-over-track-for-haskell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/verrazano-has-race-over-track-for-haskell\/","title":{"rendered":"Verrazano has race over track for Haskell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oceanport, NJ (Sports Network) &#8211; A victory over Monmouth Park&#8217;s main track in the Pegasus Stakes sets up very well for Verrazano heading into the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday, July 28.<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Todd Pletcher, Verrazano won the Pegasus by 9 1\/4 lengths in his first start since finishing 14th in the Kentucky Derby. Owned in part by Let&#8217;s Go Stable, the 3-year-old colt defeated Itsmyluckyday in the Pegasus and is now ready for the Haskell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll continue to train up at Saratoga and ship down race day,&#8221; co-owner Bryan Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>The colt has earned $951,300 in six career starts winning five, including the Tampa Bay Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The 1 1\/8-mile Haskell is setting up to be a highly competitive race with Preakness winner Oxbow and Kentucky Derby runner-up Golden Soul expected to go against Verrazano, winner earlier this year of the Wood Memorial. Mylute, third in the Preakness, is also possible for the Haskell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceanport, NJ (Sports Network) &#8211; A victory over Monmouth Park&#8217;s main track in the Pegasus Stakes sets up very well for Verrazano heading into the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday, July 28. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Verrazano won the Pegasus by 9 1\/4 lengths in his first start since finishing 14th in the Kentucky [&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-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","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=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}