{"id":12123,"date":"2019-02-17T14:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12123"},"modified":"2019-02-17T14:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T20:41:38","slug":"hall-fame-nominees-ladies-gentlementhe-supremes-plus-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/hall-fame-nominees-ladies-gentlementhe-supremes-plus-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Nominees: Ladies and Gentlemen\u2026The Supremes! (Plus That Guy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The annual Hall of Fame nominees were announced, and they really did resemble that fabulous girl group from Motown, ages ago\u2014gorgeous, harmonic, stellar. They were three time Champion and winner of six Grade One races, Royal Delta (Empire Maker); Horse of the Year Havre de Grace (Saint Liam); her frequent nemesis (you\u2019ve got to have rivalries in girl groups), Champion Blind Luck (Pollard\u2019s Vision); and the only filly to ever win the Belmont S.-G1 (and two other prestigious Grade One races for fillies), beating leading sire Curlin in the process in an unforgettable stretch duel, Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy). What a star-studded super group! The pertinent and unavoidable question: which one is Diana Ross? I\u2019m certain everybody will have an opinion as to this: different strokes for different folks.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, and a guy was nominated too. Gio Ponti (Tale of the Cat), himself a three-time Eclipse Champion, but somehow he was always workmanlike instead of glamorous. Nonetheless, he is deserving. He also had the misfortune to finish second in the Grade One Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic to the only mare ever to win it, the incomparable Zenyatta. This guy just can\u2019t catch a break with the ladies.<\/p>\n

— Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"The annual Hall of Fame nominees were announced, and they really did resemble that fabulous girl group from Motown, ages ago\u2014gorgeous, harmonic, stellar. They were three time Champion and winner of six Grade One races, Royal Delta (Empire Maker); Horse of the Year Havre de Grace (Saint Liam); her frequent nemesis (you\u2019ve got to have rivalries in girl groups), Champion Blind Luck (Pollard\u2019s Vision); and the only filly to ever win the Belmont S.-G1 (and two other prestigious Grade One races for fillies), beating leading sire Curlin in the process in an unforgettable stretch duel, Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-happening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}