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Went The Day well has arrived at Churchill!  He went into Animal Kingdom’s stall – he likes it!{jcomments on}

photo by Coady Photography After 14 seconds we were getting a little worried!  Melody Dawn broke the seconditis for us today at Keeneland by winning her allowance race nicely by 4 lengths.  Many congratulations to R & B International. P.S.  Had another second afterwards!{jcomments on}

There will be quite the reunion among Maryland connections on the Churchill Downs backstretch next week.  Team Valor’s Went The Day Well leads the charge for Herringswell; Graham travels to Louisville on Tuesday.  Our Fair Hill neighbor Michael Matz sends out one of the Derby’s early favorites, Phyllis Wyeth’s Union Rags.  Both colts wintered at […]

We are!  Eagle Poise’s dirty nose second last night at Santa Anita made it the 12th second of the month.  7 of them have been at Keeneland.  How they separated Eagle Poise and Bourbon Bay was courtesy of the high technology at the wire these days!  Photo below by Benoit Photography         […]

Marshall Blevins, who has worked for us during the Keeneland meets for the last three years before her course at the University of Kentucky is also an avid photographer.  This is a great close-up photo she took of Went The Day Well yesterday breezing with John Velazquez.  By the way, Marshall is now a fully fledged member […]

We were very fortunate last year that Flaxman Holdings purchased Pachattack after running a wonderful third to Royal Delta in last years Breeders Cup Ladies Classic.  She was already a Graded Stakes winner over the synthetic surface but had also been Graded Stakes placed on dirt and won on turf which is very unusual to be competitive on […]

Coady Photography  After a pretty decent campaign in France and Germany Julie’s Love came to America last December and ran for the first time today.  She broke very slowly which made everyone groan!  That so often happens first time running over here.  It doesn’t matter how many times you break them out of the gate […]

Tim who volunteers at Old Friends sent this e-mail yesterday and I really thought it was worth sharing… Sue: I just wanted to let you know that people still talk about Better Talk Now.  I overheard a couple of conversations at the track this weekend about how great he is.  I also had a few […]

Aruna was the only runner in the 6 horse field who had not started this year and it was a strange race!  They went at a pedestrian pace and all runners bar the third and fourth finished in the same position as they ran.  That happens so rarely.  Basically they all went slow and all […]

First Whipoorwill won her second race in a row today at Pimlico.  Both of her races have been in Maryland.  First Laurel and now Pimlico.  She is out of Stakes winning dam Lonesome Sound who ran and won until she was seven years old!  First Whippoorwill is an improving filly and seems quite unflustered about […]