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Luna Time racked up her third win yesterday by a comfortable three and a quarter lengths.  She was ridden by Trevor McCarthy, as she has been for her last two wins.   I like the way the chart wrote “LUNA TIME settled off the pace and removed from the inside, gathered momentum…..” as you can picture […]

Although Graham never trained him, Eighttofasttocatch was bred by Dark Hollow and Herringswell Stables out of their amazing mare Too Fast To Catch.  The mare was not regally bred but won 8 races herself and was a terrific producer with nearly all of her offspring winners.  The best of all is Eighttofasttocatch, by the indomitable […]

Lookout Lady won off her lay-off last night in good fashion.  She is owned and bred by Phyllis Wyeth and is very closely related to Shared Account.  Mrs. Wyeth loved to watch Shared Account run so she bought her mother’s half sister, Sapphire ‘N Silk and sent her to Smart Strike who is Shared Account’s […]

Play Pretty, half sister to the great Shackleford and Stephanoatsee won by far this afternoon at Laurel!  This was her third start and a pair of blinkers today helped her concentrate nicely.  Our other filly Chainsmoknsuprmdl was second which was an interesting run for her as she ran first on a sloppy track and then […]

Why We Weep When A Horse Is Lost “Even to an absentee owner, the loss of a horse can hurt more deeply than the financial cost or a cold insurance claim.  It can mean, when the horse has worked its way up to public acclaim. the abrupt end not only of Stakes won, but of […]

We all remember Trevor McCarthy “Trev” when he started riding the pony for his Dad at Fair Hill and when his Dad retired he came to ride racehorses for us.  This was all while he was still at school.  Dad, ex-jockey Mike McCarthy and his wife Krista were determined Trevor would finish school but the […]

Written by Alex Brown who is local to Fair Hill, tutors at the University Of Delaware and also gallops at Fair Hill. Cecil Whig Article  

Both Irish Strait and By A Hundreth won today.  Irish Strait was running his second race after being disqualified in his first race, when he was second.  It wasn’t really his fault as it was a concertina effect from the horse beside him and about four horses interfered with each other and got taken down.  […]

Yesterday brought two winners by a couple of talented young fillies.  The first was Euphonic, a beautifully bred Flaxman Holdings filly by Smart Strike who ran ‘off the turf’ on the dirt.  Her Grandsire on the dam’s side is Storm Cat so that probably helped the transition.  The second was regally bred Whimsicality by Arch […]

A pretty amazing race with Quadrivium spotting the field about twelve lengths and coming through to win going away by about three.  Quadrivium had never run on dirt when he came here from Ireland so he had his first taste of it at Keeneland a month ago and won, and followed that win up today […]