{"id":483,"date":"2013-11-28T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-12-07T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T21:14:56","slug":"palace-continues-hot-streak-with-fall-highweight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/palace-continues-hot-streak-with-fall-highweight-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace continues hot streak with Fall Highweight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/replays.robertsstream.com\/racereplays\/replaysflash.php?stream=201311281440AQD8&amp;cust=NYRA&amp;t=1386439314&amp;h=e08a1540d89aca7af19b2cb3a38db5e4&amp;width=641&amp;height=391&amp;angle=pan\" name=\"RCNVideoPlayer\" align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"641\" height=\"391\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>By\u00a0<strong>Jon Forbes<\/strong>\u00a0| 11\/28\/2013 04:04 PM ET<\/div>\n<div id=\"CT_Main_0_divRight\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"CT_Main_0_imgImage\" alt=\"palace-fall-highweight-L\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nyra.com\/assets\/1\/17\/NewsDimensionMain\/palace-fall-highweight-L.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Palace, claimed for $20,000 in the fall of 2012, won his third straight stakes on Thursday at Aqueduct Racetrack, posting a 1 \u00bd-length victory in the 100th edition of the Grade 3, $300,000 Fall Highweight Handicap for 3-year-olds and up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reserved in sixth along the backstretch in the six-furlong race, Palace began his rally when angled outside by Cornelio Velasquez on the turn; he entered the stretch in the five path and overtook Grade 1 winners Strapping Groom and The Lumber Guy in the final furlong.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Palace completed the distance in 1:09.82 under 129 pounds over a main track labeled &#8220;good.&#8221; Backed as the 5-2 second choice, he returned $7.40 for a $2 win wager.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Perfect trip,&#8221; said Velasquez. &#8220;My horse broke good, good position. He&#8217;s better outside. [Jockey Joel] Rosario [aboard Sage Valley] gave me a chance at the quarter pole.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trainer Linda Rice claimed Palace on behalf of owner Antonino Miuccio for $20,000 out of the colt&#8217;s fourth start, a maiden race at Belmont in October 2012. Palace won four of his first seven starts for his connections, all in optional claiming races.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his stakes debut, Palace defeated The Lumber Guy by three lengths in the Chowder&#8217;s First overnight stakes in August at Saratoga. The 4-year-old entered the Fall Highweight off a 1 \u00bc-length score in the Hudson Handicap on October 19 at Belmont Park. Both the Chowder&#8217;s First and Hudson were restricted to New York-breds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I really think he likes sitting off the pace as a come-from-behind sprinter,&#8221; said Rice. &#8220;He seems to relish that, and, now that we have figured that out, he&#8217;s doing great.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Palace is a son of City Zip, whom Rice trained to six graded stakes victories.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I was really excited about today&#8217;s race, because it is quite gratifying,&#8221; said Rice. &#8220;The fact he&#8217;s a son of City Zip &#8211; I trained [Palace&#8217;s] father, who was such a tremendous racehorse &#8211; makes it really cool.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Palace is 8-2-2 in 14 starts. His Fall Highweight victory, worth $180,000, lifted his earnings to $532,050.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Caixa Eletronica, the 2012 Fall Highweight winner, lagged early before running on to finish fourth. Sage Valley, Saturday&#8217;s Charm, B Shanny, and early leader Jake N Elwood completed the order of finish.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Original Article &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyra.com\/aqueduct\/palace-continues-hot-streak-with-fall-highweight-victory\/\">http:\/\/www.nyra.com\/aqueduct\/palace-continues-hot-streak-with-fall-highweight-victory\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Jon Forbes\u00a0| 11\/28\/2013 04:04 PM ET Palace, claimed for $20,000 in the fall of 2012, won his third straight stakes on Thursday at Aqueduct Racetrack, posting a 1 \u00bd-length victory in the 100th edition of the Grade 3, $300,000 Fall&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-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}