{"id":628565,"date":"2023-02-03T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=628565"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T16:14:06","slug":"cold-weather-short-field-produce-bumps-in-road-to-the-kentucky-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cold-weather-short-field-produce-bumps-in-road-to-the-kentucky-derby","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather, short field produce bumps in Road to the Kentucky Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; What normally would be a hot weekend on the Triple Crown trail hit a few bumps along that Thoroughbred thoroughfare as cold weather forced postponement of one big race and another drew only four horses &#8212; all trained by Bob Baffert . Algiers, shown winning Round 1 of the Maktoum Challenge in January, takes on Round 2 Friday night in Dubai. Photo Courtesy of Dubai Racing Club That leaves the Holy Bull Stakes and the Swale Stakes at Gulfstream Park as the top 3-year-old events of the weekend. Three-year-old fillies also have their chances at Gulfstream, Tampa Bay Downs resumes its stakes program with a pair of turf events and Santa Anita also has graded stakes on both turf and dirt. On the international scene, Hong Kong has yet another big race Sunday, and the All-Weather Championships in England continue to provide candidates for The Saudi Cup and Dubai World Cup programs. Meanwhile, Punxsutawney Phil ,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what would normally be a hot weekend of Kentucky Derby prep action, one of the big three races was postponed by bitter cold and another drew only four entries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}