General News

• A big thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our seminar “Buying Horses at Auction” last night. Another excellent turnout, over 25 people, really nice to see so many owners and friends….  Whether you attended last night’s seminar or not, we’d love any feedback - suggestions for future seminars. What topics would interest you for future events? How can we make these seminars more interesting – engaging – useful – educational - fun? We want our owners to be educated and informed, that’s why we do this !!!
• The Fasig-Tipton 2yo sale is almost upon us. Under tack show begins next week and we’ll be there. Stay tuned for more updates and info. as sale time approaches.

Horse by Horse News  

This evening, we had three horses run at Penn National on the first night of racing for the season there and got solid efforts from all of them.

• No Good Deed ran in the first race of the day-meet and came though with a much improved effort (compared to her three previous totally up the track starts at Gulfstream), finishing a close and closing 4^th tonight. She was beaten about 4 lengths for the win and about 2 lengths for 2^nd, not a bad effort. As has been the case in all of her starts, she broke slowly and bumped with another horse coming out of the gate, putting her off the early pace. She looked like she was backing out of it badly on the far turn as she had in her previous races but instead found a new gear in the stretch to close nicely, galloping out ahead of the field after the wire. It was a decent effort, especially considering she hadn’t run since February and this was a very fast run race for the level, so we’d expect her to move forward off this one and find her way to the winner’s circle at Penn soon.
• In the very next race New Found Treasure ran in a grass race at a distance way too short for her and the result was similar to No Good Deed, as she too finished a fast closing 4^th. She broke well and settled well back early in a speed laden race, then made a very nice stretch run to be beaten just under 3 lengths for the win while missing 3^rd by just a neck. She also galloped out ahead of the field and as trainer Mark Salvaggio put it right after the race “if it even had been 5 &1/2 furlongs instead of 5, she’d been no worse than 2^nd and probably won”. We ran her here with an eye on another grass race around 2 turns, just her spot, that’s scheduled for July 4^th weekend. This race is sure to help have her fit and ready for that one and other distance grass races all summer.
• Finally Rapstorerocks tried dirt for the first time and he too ran in a race way too short for him. Bumped and shuffled back to last in the early going, he settled down and commenced a sustained run to finish a fine 2^nd, well back of the favored winner who was too far in front to be caught, but way ahead of the remainder of the field and improving position with every stride. It was a perfect example of just how much the class level matters in racing; off the board in 8 previous starts at top tracks on the right distance-surface, he was a good 2^nd here against much less company despite the wrong distance – surface. Here too it was a nice tightener to have him ready for longer races as things open up at Penn and off this race he too looks ready for the winner’s circle shortly.

While obviously you always hope for a win, all three of these horses were returning off layoffs in races not at their favored distances. The goal was a good effort that would have them fit and ready for their next starts and we got exactly that this evening with each of them. They all appear to have come back well and if they move forward as we’d expect now, all of them are sitting on wins shortly.

• In entry news, the race goes for Pango at Gulfstream Park, he runs June 24^th and after that we expect him to ship north for the summer. Ran well last time and hoping for another step forward in this spot.
• Life on the Edge doing really well at Monmouth Park and expecting a big race from her next time out. Just looking for somewhere to run. She’ll be entered at Laurel Park next week.
• Seven Seven making steady progress towards his debut. Will work again beginning of next week at Monmouth Park.
• Giuliana Vee good and should be ready to run at Penn National in early July.
• Fire’s Finale excellent at Gulfstream Park. Ron Spatz is considering a race at the end of June for his debut, well ahead of schedule, although probably the next race that comes up in the book in mid-July is more likely. He’s going to work him again shortly and make a decision. 
• Lisa Limon and her Liam’s Map foal both well at Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky. We got a bit of really good news from the recently concluded OBS 2yo in training sale when a Liam’s Map filly sold for $700,000, an especially impressive number considering the overall sale results.