Very bittersweet goodbye last night for Quidura and Miss Temple City. I stayed to watch them load on their way to the Select Sale at Fasig Tipton on Monday, and then bailed, as I knew I would cry and van drivers don’t like people doing that while they are trying to get organized! Keith Cooper […]
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Point System’s Third Win
Wow, is she consistent. She won her third race yesterday from six starts but has been placed in all the others, bar a race at the Dueling Grounds when she didn’t start well. As mentioned once before she didn’t start her career until this year as a three year old in March but the late […]
Thewayiam
Another who was encountering firm ground for the first time (see Shahroze), Thewayiam skipped over it today at Keeneland. She was a little erratic in the stretch but held on to win by a neck. It was the first start in the US for this French bred and raced filly owned by Great Point Stables, […]
Shahroze
Can’t get more European breeding than he is, being by Holy Roman Emperor out of a Bahri mare and bred by HRH The Aga Khan no less, Shahroze earned his first win from his first start in the United States. He’s a three year old gelding and the mile and a quarter distance was to […]
Clever Mind Wins Maryland Million Nursery
Sometimes inexperience can pay off. Clever Mind was having his first start today against two year olds who had already run, they went very fast up front so he just hung out the back until everyone sorted themselves out, swept by them and hit the wire by about three lengths. Nik Juarez, the jockey was […]
Howie Again!
Photo by Jim McCue. Just Howard has got to be one, if not THE most laid back horses in the barn. He’s still a colt but doesn’t know it. He’s beside a filly and doesn’t care; in fact at one time he was behind a filly with the grate open and Lisa, who groomed him […]
Almond Roca
You’d think being by Speightstown out of a Holy Bull mare that she’d be fast, and you’d be right! She whizzed over the Laurel turf this afternoon in her five and a half furlong race on the turf to win by about four lengths Feargal Lynch rode her. Many congratulations to Chadds Ford Stable.
Moveslike Molasses
Did not last night! A half brother to two Stake winners he won his first race out of three starts on the Tapeta at Presque Isle. He was in a long stretch duel and was very game. Congratulations to owner and breeder Alex G. Campbell.
Irish Defence
Wow, she’s now won half of her eight starts and last night was her first try on turf. She’s a half to Irish War Cry and Irish Strait so she’s certainly keeping up the family name! It was the shortest distance she’s run, at five furlongs, so she’s now won from that distance up to […]
The Real Rider Cup
The inaugural Real Rider Cup at the Plantation Field Horse Trials on Sunday, September 17 was such a rollicking good time that it has taken us three days to recover from it…and to review the 1,000+ (literally!) photos that were taken at the event. Twenty riders comprised four teams of five riders each – […]
