Formerly the Lane’s End Stakes (and I can’t get used to using the new name)! Both Crimson China in the race before (Rushaway Stakes) and Animal Kingdom in the Spiral came from last place to finish like trains! Unfortunately, it looked as if Crimson China did not like the kickback at Turfway Park and he […]
News
Retired racehorses help returning soldiers
The following article was brought to our attention by our veterinarian, Dr. Luis Castro who is involved. Wonderful to have yet another outlet for retired thoroughbreds: (copy and paste the link into your browser) http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2011/03/20/news/doc4d851d62e69b3328455757.txt {jcomments on}
Little Miss Joyce
I don’t think we’ve had a measure stick on her but I can’t imagine she’d be much over 15.3 hh. She won her allowance race at Penn National last night after breaking her maiden up there at the end of January. Congratulations to George Strawbridge, Jr., who is also her breeder.{jcomments off}
The honeymoon continues
LA LUNA DE MIEL (Ger) Coglianese Photos Today’s Thoroughbred Times by Mike Curry La Luna de Miel (Ger) has excelled since she was transferred by owner Rashit Shaykhutdinov from Germany to trainer Graham Motion’s barn in the U.S. The four-year-old Monsun filly won for the second time in as many starts in the U.S. when […]
Double dip at Gulfstream
Both King Ting and Dynamic Holiday were drawn #1 yesterday in their races at Gulfstream Park and both were able to have ground saving, rail hugging trips, both ridden by Ramon Dominguez! King Ting was breaking his maiden after a couple of thirds and a second and Dynamic Holiday was extending her winning streak to […]
Mary and Orpington
In Mary Motion’s first race as a senior foxhunter (up a level from the last two years as a junior), her and Orpington are still a force to reckon with. Mary and ‘the Orpster’ as we used to call him here have struck up a wonderful relationship and are unbeaten over timber fences. “The Orpster” as I remember […]
Toby’s pigeon
Adrian Rolls took this cute photo of Toby’s Corner at Aqueduct last Saturday having a nap before the Gotham (Grade III) – with a new friend! {jcomments on}
Care Bear
Bear’s Rocket won at Parx Racing this afternoon and he did it well as he was carried very wide on the first turn by a horse bearing out from the inside. It caused him to drop out of contention and gave him plenty to do, but he is doing so well since his short break […]
Pensioners On Parade: Orpington
As a responsible owner, Gil Johnston goes out of her way to secure happy homes and second careers for her retired race horses. “All of my horses – and I’ve had plenty of them – are kind of like my children,” she said. In late 2008, when the time came for Johnston’s smallish […]
I miss him!
I was looking through some old photo’s today and found this one of Better Talk Now doing his usual ‘planting himself’. It was obviously taken from the stands and it reminded me of the character of the racetrack that I miss. Not wanting to go anywhere when he got on to the track, not down […]