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Sweet Seventeen made our Keeneland meet a beautiful start for Mrs. Debby Oxley who recently lost her wonderful race mare Beautiful Pleasure.  The times were a lot faster than they looked when you watched them running but everyone finished quite leg weary so the polytrack must be riding fast.  Congratulations to Debby Oxley and her […]

A few people had requested photo’s of Better Talk Now in the paddock after arriving home from New Bolton Center last Friday.  For the first few days he went out in the small paddock by the barn and yesterday for the first time he went out with Gala Spinaway in his large paddock.  Everything back […]

That goes for Gala Spinaway as well as Blackie I think.  I went to do the peppermint rounds, as with going to New Bolton every day I’ve been neglecting it and apart from missing doing it, I wanted to see if Blackie acted the same as usual now he’s back.  Yes.  He nickered and turned […]

I took some photo’s before I left New Bolton with everyone who has been so kind.  There were lots of others too but not everyone was there today.  Maggie will post them later as she has a better program than I.  She also took some of his homecoming and his reunion with Gala Spinaway which […]

Better Talk Now expected to go home Better Talk Now, winner of the 2004 John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), is expected to be released from the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center this weekend and return to Graham Motion’s Herringswell Stables in Fair Hill, Maryland, according to Luis Castro, D.V.M., veterinarian for Herringswell. The […]

I’ve wondered as time has gone on if I would think of something to say every day about Better Talk Now, but he doesn’t disappoint!  Apart from the game from yesterday wanting to go out of the gate (today he walked along the grass, skimming his nose but not eating it, so he could turn […]

That’s what he tried to do EVERY time I walked past the open gate where we walk.  Jan Gray came with me today and we laughed every time too.  It’s as if he was telling us that he sees where the car drives and he knows it goes past that gate so it must be […]

When I got there today he was in x-ray.  They had x-rayed two things.  His lungs and his neck.  The lungs as they thought that’s where the residue inflammation might be.  Dr. Garcia showed me the two x-rays, one from when he got there and now, and there was definitely some inflammation still there.  So, […]

That was the news that greeted me today which is good news but they still are flumoxed as to why his fibrinogen is high.  Well, he’s in the best place to work it out! After greeting me with nickers the first few days he now looks at me as if to say “Ah, you again!”  […]

After taking poor Brooke Baker to the hospital with a suspected broken ankle Dr. Garcia called.  He says Blackie is happy and doing well.  His fibrinogen is still not where he wants it to be so they are going to ultrasound his lungs and spleen again to make sure there’s nothing going on there.  He […]