{"id":1619,"date":"2017-07-03T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:52:51","slug":"seymourdini-impresses-at-belmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/seymourdini-impresses-at-belmont\/","title":{"rendered":"Seymourdini Impresses at Belmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbreddailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/seymourdini20the20state20dinner-coglianese.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"274\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seymourdini | A Coglianese<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iris Smith Stable\u2019s Seymourdini (Bernardini) may have earned himself a graded stakes assignment after an impressive victory at Belmont Park Monday. The 4-year-old, purchased for $900,000 at the 2015 OBS April Sale, romped home by a front-running 10 1\/2 lengths in the State Dinner S. He completed the<\/p>\n<p>1 1\/16 miles in 1:39.81\u2013just off the track record of 1:39.22 set in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s pretty spectacular,\u201d said winning trainer Linda Rice. \u201cIt\u2019s taken us a long time to get him into this kind of form. He showed a lot of talent as a 2-year-old. He showed talent as a 3-year-old. It\u2019s taken time for him to mature mentally and physically and put it all together. But today, he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seymourdini was scoring his third straight open-lengths victory after demolishing allowance company at Laurel Park in his two most recent outings this spring. He was earning his first stakes win in the $100,000 State Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>As for where the bay may start next, Rice added, \u201cIf we\u2019re forced to go to Saratoga, we might go at seven-eighths in the [Aug. 26 GI] Forego. I like running him further. He relaxes. He\u2019s run two spectacular miles. I think our long-term goal should be the [Dec. 2 GI] Cigar Mile. That race makes stallions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Original Article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbreddailynews.com\/seymourdini-impresses-at-belmont\/\">http:\/\/www.thoroughbreddailynews.com\/seymourdini-impresses-at-belmont\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris Smith Stable\u2019s Seymourdini (Bernardini) may have earned himself a graded stakes assignment after an impressive victory at Belmont Park Monday. The 4-year-old, purchased for $900,000 at the 2015 OBS April Sale, romped home by a front-running 10 1\/2 lengths&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-slides","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}