{"id":12163,"date":"2019-03-05T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:43:17","slug":"fountain-youth-card-produces-record-handle-nine-percent-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/fountain-youth-card-produces-record-handle-nine-percent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain Of Youth Card Produces Record Handle, Up Nine Percent Over 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12164\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Code-of-Honor-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/>Saturday March 2nd&#8217;s 14-race program at Gulfstream Park, highlighted by Code of Honor&#8217;s victory in the 73rd running of the Xpressbet.com Fountain of Youth (G2), produced a record total handle on Fountain of Youth Day of $31,230,535, a 9-percent increase over last year&#8217;s 14-race program.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s 14-race program featured nine graded-stakes races. Along with Code of Honor&#8217;s victory in the Fountain of Youth, 50-1 longshot Jeltrin won the $200,000 Davona Dale (G2) and returned $105, A Thread of Blue won the Palm Beach (G3), Zulu\u00a0<a class=\"blue-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darleyamerica.com\/stallions\/our-stallions\/alpha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alpha<\/a>\u00a0won the Mac Diarmida (G2) and Precieuse won the Honey Fox (G3).<\/p>\n<p>Fountain of Youth Day handle has grown each year since 2015, when total handle was $20.585 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to thank all the fans who came out because there was such a great atmosphere here from early morning until late in the day,\u201d said Gulfstream General Manager Bill Badgett. \u201cThe horsemen supported our stakes and our program once again, and we&#8217;re continuing to build a strong partnership with them all. We&#8217;re looking forward to an incredible final month here punctuated by the $1 million Florida Derby on Saturday, March 30.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12164\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Code-of-Honor-e1551821997173-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Saturday March 2nd&#8217;s 14-race program at Gulfstream Park, highlighted by Code of Honor&#8217;s victory in the 73rd running of the Xpressbet.com Fountain of Youth (G2), produced a record total handle on Fountain of Youth Day of $31,230,535, a 9-percent increase over last year&#8217;s 14-race program.<\/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-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-happening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","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=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}