{"id":9949,"date":"2013-11-18T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dude-and-will-take-charge-to-meet-in-clark\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:25:08","slug":"dude-and-will-take-charge-to-meet-in-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dude-and-will-take-charge-to-meet-in-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dude&#8217; and Will Take Charge to meet in Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The runner-up and the beaten favorite in the Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic will headline the field for next week&#8217;s $500,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs.<\/p>\n<p>Will Take Charge, beaten a nose by Mucho Macho Man, and defeated 17-10 favorite Game On Dude top 19 thoroughbreds nominated to the 139th Clark Handicap on Friday, Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Will Take Charge, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, has finished first or second in his last four starts which include victories in the Travers and Pennsylvania Derby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The timing is pretty good,&#8221; Lukas said. &#8220;I almost wish there was more to the season, because he is good right now. It&#8217;s a prestigious race in many ways. It&#8217;s a Grade I and if we could get another Grade I against older competition around two turns, I think it would be significant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Owned by Willis Horton, the 3-year-old has banked $2.7 million with five wins in 14 career starts.<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Bob Baffert, Game On Dude finished ninth in the Classic on Nov. 2 one year after finishing seventh as the 13-10 favorite in the $5 million race. The 6-year-old gelding has lifetime earnings of $5.6 million with 15 wins in 28 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Game On Dude is owned by a partnership that includes Bernard Sciappa, the Lanni Family Trust, Joe Torre&#8217;s Diamond Pride Stable and Mercedes Stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The runner-up and the beaten favorite in the Breeders&#8217; Cup Classic will headline the field for next week&#8217;s $500,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs. Will Take Charge, beaten a nose by Mucho Macho Man, and defeated 17-10 favorite Game On Dude top 19 thoroughbreds nominated to the 139th Clark Handicap on [&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-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","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=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}