{"id":1144,"date":"2015-05-01T19:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2015-05-23T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:15:32","slug":"la-verdad-repeats-in-distaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/la-verdad-repeats-in-distaff\/","title":{"rendered":"La Verdad Repeats in Distaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/La-Verdad-Distaff-2015-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1145\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/La-Verdad-Distaff-2015-4-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"La Verdad Distaff 2015 - 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/La-Verdad-Distaff-2015-4-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lindarice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/La-Verdad-Distaff-2015-4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>La Verdad repeats in distaff\u00a0returning to the races at 5 following an off-the board\u00a0finish against the boys in the fall Highweight\u00a0Handicap (gr. iii) late last November, Lady\u00a0Sheila Stable\u2019s star sprinter La Verdad successfully\u00a0defended her title in the distaff Handicap (gr. ii)\u00a0april 18 at aqueduct while making short work of\u00a0three rivals. After an opening quarter-mile in :22.25, and\u00a0a half-mile in :44.87, new york-bred la Verdad\u00a0drew off to a no-doubt-about-it 51\u20444-length win,\u00a0stopping the clock after six furlongs in a very sharp\u00a01:10 fat.\u00a0\u201ci can only hope she comes back and races as\u00a0well as she has the last year and a half for us,\u201d said\u00a0trainer linda rice. \u201ci had her in training for quite\u00a0a long time without a vacation, and after the fall\u00a0Highweight i decided to turn her out for a couple\u00a0months; she deserved it.\u201d\u00a0la Verdad has compiled two stellar campaigns<br \/>\nfor rice at 3 and 4, putting together two separate\u00a0four-race win streaks in 2013-14, broken only by a\u00a0runner-up fnish in the 2014 barbara fritchie Handicap\u00a0(gr. ii) in february 2014.<\/p>\n<p>La Verdad won six times last year,\u00a0and in 2013 la Verdad won four\u00a0of fve starts. the bay mare\u2019s career\u00a0record stands at 11 wins and two\u00a0seconds from 17 career starts with\u00a0$900,700 in earnings.\u00a0bred by eklektikos stable and\u00a0foaled at chester and mary\u00a0broman\u2019s chestertown farm in\u00a0chestertown, la Verdad was sold\u00a0privately to sheila rosenblum\u00a0of lady sheila stable following\u00a0her second allowance victory in\u00a0november 2013. La Verdad is a\u00a0daughter of yes it\u2019s true\u2014noble\u00a0fire, by Hook and ladder.\u00a0New York-bred La Verdad scores\u00a0back-to back wins in the grade II\u00a0Distaff\u0001 Handicap.<\/p>\n<p>Original Article &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/nytbreeders.epubxp.com\/i\/509121-may-2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Verdad repeats in distaff\u00a0returning to the races at 5 following an off-the board\u00a0finish against the boys in the fall Highweight\u00a0Handicap (gr. iii) late last November, Lady\u00a0Sheila Stable\u2019s star sprinter La Verdad successfully\u00a0defended her title in the distaff Handicap (gr.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}