General News

  • Final call for the final two shares! $1,950, our lowest priced group in years. You should have received the details, first come, first served, closes Friday 9am!
  • Seven wins, five seconds and one third from just sixteen starts in July and August. Congratulations to all our owners on your wins with Highwaytwentyseven, No Good Deed, New Found Treasure, plus TWO wins for Rapstorerocks, a win and a photo finish 2nd for Giuliana Vee, an outstanding blowout win to end the July following an excellent 2nd on Haskell Day for Life On the Edge and a very game 2nd in her Kenwood debut for Tracy Ann’s Legacy. Kenwood’s record at our home base of Monmouth Park has been nothing short of phenomenal; a word we rarely if ever use but with two wins and three seconds from five starts for the meet it certainly applies. We picked up well over $20,000 in purse money with our win and two seconds last weekend alone and look forward to more wins and purses to come before the meet ends.
  • This might be a good spot to congratulate trainer Kelly Breen on an outstanding meet and also longtime friend, trainer Ben Perkins, who is also having a outstanding meet with a limited number of starters (see articles below) These are quality people with quality staff running top quality operations that put horses and owners first. If everyone ran their businesses like these trainers do, we’d have a much better industry.

KELLY BREEN TAKING AIM AT ANOTHER TRAINING TITLE AS MONMOUTH PARK MEET HITS MIDPOINT ON FRIDAY

TRAINER BEN PERKINS SADDLES FOUR WINNERS ON SUNDAY’S CARD GIVING HIM SEVEN WINNERS FROM LAST NINE MONMOUTH STARTERS

Horse by Horse News

  • We were able to dodge the rain and keep the race on the turf for New Found Treasure tonight at Penn National, a similar spot to the race she won last time. This one came up especially tough; the horse she was 2nd to a couple of races back was in there along with several others with good form but she ran her usual good race to finish a close 3rd, beaten just under 1 length for the win and just under 2 lengths for 2nd.  No excuse; a good trip and a good ride, just beaten to the wire while running well and hitting the board once again.
  • Life on the Edge runs Friday at Monmouth Park and will run on turf or if it’s rained off and ends up on dirt as it did last time when she won by almost 10 lengths. While she’s good on grass too, given her last race we won’t complain if it comes off again. She returns on 2 weeks rest and if she can handle a slightly faster than usual turnaround and gets her trip from a middle post this time, she’ll be tough to beat.  Leading rider Paco Lopez stays with her off her big win.
  • Seven Seven came out of his career debut at Saratoga, so well that we kept him at Saratoga and are pointing him to a race at the end of next week. His debut was good, a lot better than most people probably realize. He made a huge move on the far turn to get alongside the 2 leaders, and then the horse next to him bore out badly, sending him 4 wide and causing him to lose all momentum and he finished 5th   “strung out 4 wide on the turn” according to the official chart. If the race goes next week, with a better trip and the debut experience, as well as he’s training we’d anticipate a big step forward.
  • Fire's Finale came out of his closing 2nd in his first start at Monmouth Park excellent and there’s an ideal spot for him too at the end of next week at the longer distance he’s bred for. If the race goes and he keeps doing this well, he’ll be in it.  He’s bred to be a classic distance horse and get better as he matures, as we said before people bought into the group. We owned his mother and she went from a claiming sprinter at age two to a three time stakes winner going long at age three. We can’t guarantee Fire’s Finale will repeat her success but off two excellent efforts we have reason to believe he’s a talented horse and we are looking forward to a fine career with him. Being a Pa. bred gives us even more options with him down the road.
  • Highwaytwentyseven excellent out of his impressive 5+ length win at Monmouh Park and should run back towards the end of the month, looking for two in a row
  • Tracy Ann’s Legacy good out of her excellent, hard-trying 2nd at Monmouth Park, picking up $10,000 in purse $ in a tough allowance race last week. This race comes back in the book in 2 weeks and while no guarantee it will go, if it does the timing would be excellent to run back in there and hopefully it will stay on the turf. This is a very nice filly and looks like an excellent claim for our active racing group #58, should be lots of good times ahead with her.
  • Pango  doing well out of his last start at Penn National. A few strides after the wire he was in front and off this race we have renewed optimism that he can join the rest of our stable in the winner’s circle.
  • Rapstorerocks training great, comes off two wins in a row at Penn National!
  • Giuliana Vee good out of a very game 2nd following a fine debut win at Penn National.
  • Adhwaa training well at Monmouth Park, no issues.
  • No Good Deed just fine out of a rough trip last time when 4th at Penn National, looks like end of August for her next start.
  • Blu Candy well at the farm. Expect her to return to training at Monmouth Park in September. We are not rushing her as she’s bred to mature into a nice filly.
  • Lisa Limon and her Liam’s Map foal well at Hidden Brook Farm in Ky. Hard to find a better looking horse. Congratulations to Lisa’s brother Snow Man, who won the Duke City Sprint Stakes off a 8 month layoff! And there’s another impressive Liam’s Map stakes winner (below). Our Liam’s Map – Lisa Limon foal should be a very popular commodity when we sell him as a yearling next year. Liam’s Map Filly Navigates Traffic to Garner Rising Stardom at Ellis