{"id":5045,"date":"2011-05-11T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2012-09-02T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:06:56","slug":"rip-michael-baze-1987-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"RIP Michael Baze (1987 &#8211; 2011)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mbaze.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5046\" title=\"Michael Baze\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mbaze.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mbaze2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5047\" title=\"Jockey Death\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mbaze2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Member of the famed racing family, Baze had 6,969 career starts with 918 wins with mounts earning $32 million. At age 20 he became the youngest rider since Bill Shoemaker (in 1950) to win a riding title at Hollywood Park. He rode 73 winners at the 63-day stand. He was 24.<\/p>\n<p>Details in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drf.com\/news\/churchill-downs-jockey-michael-baze-found-dead-stable-area\">Racing Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of the famed racing family, Baze had 6,969 career starts with 918 wins with mounts earning $32 million. At age 20 he became the youngest rider since Bill Shoemaker (in 1950) to win a riding title at Hollywood Park. He rode 73 winners at the 63-day stand. He was 24. Details in Racing Forum<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166],"tags":[490,487,488,486,491,492,481,482,483,484,485],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-nag","tag-jockey-deaths","tag-jockey-michael-baze-cocaine","tag-jockey-michael-baze-drugs","tag-jockey-michael-baze-suicide","tag-jockeys-drugs","tag-jockeys-southern-california","tag-michael-baze","tag-michael-baze-dead","tag-michael-baze-drugs","tag-michael-baze-obit","tag-michael-baze-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14586,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/14586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}