{"id":40023,"date":"2018-05-06T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/06\/kentucky-derby-winner-justify-a-very-credible-triple-crown-contender\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:45:40","slug":"kentucky-derby-winner-justify-a-very-credible-triple-crown-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40023","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Derby winner Justify a very credible Triple Crown contender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justify heads to Preakness and Belmont with prospect of history after Mendelssohn\u2019s slow start and early bump ended his raceRyan Moore said before Saturday\u2019s Kentucky Derby that there were \u201ca couple of what could be exceptional horses in there\u201a\u201c and in the case of Justify at least, he was right on the money.As for Moore\u2019s mount Mendelssohn, who knows? The racing surface here was fast on Saturday morning, just as it was in Dubai in late March when he set himself up for the Run For The Roses. After record rainfall both for a Kentucky Derby day and for 5 May in Louisville, it was slop, and a slow start and early bump ensured that his race was over almost as soon as it had begun. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/06\/kentucky-derby-justify-triple-crown-mendelssohn-horse-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky Derby winner Justify a very credible Triple Crown contender<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justify heads to Preakness and Belmont with prospect of history after Mendelssohn\u2019s slow start and early bump ended his raceRyan Moore said before Saturday\u2019s Kentucky Derby that there were \u201ca couple of what could be exceptional horses in there\u201a\u201c and in the case of Justify at least, he was right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}