Stryker Phd closed ground late but finished third Friday in a $33,000 allowance race at Golden Gate Fields.<\/p>\n
Bronze Star led gate-to-wire and posted a half-length victory over G.G. Ryder in 1:38.51 on the synthetic Tapeta surface. Jerry Hollendorfer trains the top two finishers. A 5-year-old Kentucky-bred by Tapit, Bronze Star is 5-for-16 lifetime with $180,980 in earnings, but was winless in four previous starts on synthetic.<\/p>\n
Stryker Phd lagged 14 lengths back in the five-horse field and was rolling late, but made no impact on the top two finishers and was beaten six lengths. The $3,960 earned for third place, however, vaulted Stryker Phd into third place all-time in Washington-bred earnings with $623,801.<\/p>\n
Trained by Larry Ross and owned by Jim and Mona Hour, Stryker Phd is 11-5-7 in 28 lifetime starts. The 8-year-old Bertrando gelding was named Washington Horse of the Year in 2014 and 2015 and has a chance for a third successive title when 2016 awards are announced next month.<\/p>\n
Ross is now trainer of two of the top three earners in Washington Thoroughbred history.<\/p>\n
Top 10 Washington-breds by earnings:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1-Saratoga Passage, $800,212<\/p>\n 2-Military Hawk, $686,128<\/p>\n 3-Stryker Phd, $623,801<\/p>\n 4-Peterhof’s Patea,$623,367<\/p>\n 5-Rings a Chime, $606,315<\/p>\n 6-Atta Boy Roy, $602,276<\/p>\n 7-Wasserman, $599,901<\/p>\n 8-Noosa Beach, $524,472<\/p>\n 9-Captain Condo, $511,695<\/p>\n 10-Fast Parade, $508,373<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stryker Phd closed ground late but finished third Friday in a $33,000 allowance race at Golden Gate Fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25715"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}