{"id":1412,"date":"2016-03-14T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2016-03-14T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:06:42","slug":"rice-leads-2015-graded-wins-by-percentage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/rice-leads-2015-graded-wins-by-percentage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Leads 2015 Graded Wins By Percentage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/la-verdad-the-vagrancy-credit-joe-lazozzetta2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1413 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/la-verdad-the-vagrancy-credit-joe-lazozzetta2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"la-verdad-the-vagrancy-credit-joe-lazozzetta2\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/la-verdad-the-vagrancy-credit-joe-lazozzetta2-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lindarice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/la-verdad-the-vagrancy-credit-joe-lazozzetta2-768x614.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lindarice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/la-verdad-the-vagrancy-credit-joe-lazozzetta2-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Evan Hammonds (Bloodhorse)<\/p>\n<p>Original Article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/i.bloodhorse.com\/daily-app\/pdfs\/BloodHorseDaily-20160314.pdf\">http:\/\/i.bloodhorse.com\/daily-app\/pdfs\/BloodHorseDaily-20160314.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking inside the numbers of the top 20 North American trainers by 2015 earnings, it is interesting to note New York-based trainer Linda Rice led the group by percentage of graded stakes wins per graded stakes starts.<\/p>\n<p>Rice&#8217;s five graded wins came from 16 starts, good for a strike rate of 31%. Bob Baffert, trainer of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, was second at 28% (23 wins from 81 starts), and Ramon Preciado third with 25% graded stakes wins from starters (two wins from eight starts). Training leaders Todd Pletcher (21%) and Chad Brown (20%)\u2014both with much larger stables\u2014 rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics come from a feature written by Bob Barry that appears in the MarketWatch section of the March 19 edition of Blood-Horse. Other features in the special section include additional statistics on the top 100 trainers of 2015, a review of the 2015 purses by track, and an analysis on a Thoroughbred&#8217;s age and performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evan Hammonds (Bloodhorse) Original Article &#8211; http:\/\/i.bloodhorse.com\/daily-app\/pdfs\/BloodHorseDaily-20160314.pdf Looking inside the numbers of the top 20 North American trainers by 2015 earnings, it is interesting to note New York-based trainer Linda Rice led the group by percentage of graded stakes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}