General News
- A good time to enjoy some photos of Lisa Limon & her stunning Liam’s Map foal enjoying life at Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky. Thanks to farm manager Sergio De Sousa for his excellent care and the super photos!
- Some recent races from former Kenwood Racing runners worth noting:
- Smarty Cat: claimed from us last summer for $40,000, 8th beaten over 15 lengths March 21st at Tampa for $16,000.
- Two Fifty Coup: claimed from us summer of 2018 for $50,000, just won at Los Alamitos March 21st, for $5,000.
- More Ice: Sold privately last fall for $50,000, has not won since. Was entered last week for $30,000 at The Fairgrounds (racing was cancelled that day, so he did not run)
These are just a few of many, many similar examples of horses that have significantly declined in value since they left our barn. Some owners (understandably) find it very difficult emotionally when ‘their’ horse is claimed away. The facts clearly show, again and again, year after year, that in the overwhelming majority of cases, they were very well sold indeed. If we had held on to the above horses we would have collectively lost tens of thousands of dollars and the co-owners would have received absolutely nothing instead of a payout at the end of the group, not to mention the fact the horses have done little or nothing on the track since they were claimed-sold. Running in the right spots and being ready to sell at the right time is, as much as anything, the key to success in this game.
Horse by Horse News
- We’d like to thank everyone for the very good response to our new group #57. It’s not yet fully sold but getting close. It’s a real tribute to our loyal co-owners in these challenging times. Details on our current offerings page on our website. If you really want to see what we bought, here are some useful links:
Click-on the links below to view this 2yo colt:
Undertack Video
Catalog Page
Thorostride Video
We are truly grateful for your support!
- Rapstorerocks is scheduled to run tomorrow at Gulfstream Park. Now it’s 12 horses, not 9, and we drew the highly unfavorable #12 post but at least he’s back in the entries. Doing really well. We’d love to see a couple of scratches to give him a slightly more favorable post position; awful hard to win from post 12 with a short run to the first turn, you need a perfect trip and a lot of racing luck, but Paco Lopez is a terrific rider and the horse is ready to roll.
- All good news so far for our new active racing group #58 as trainer Ron Spatz reports all three horses are training forwardly at Gulfstream Park. Pango could run back in a sprint in a couple of weeks. There is a race for Trilby the first week of April to look at. There is a separate race also at Gulfstream Park for Lookinlikeaqueen the same day as Trilby or another later in the month.
- Life On The Edge fine out of her first breeze since returning to training at Palm Meadows, and should breeze again shortly. Here’s the video, thanks to Kelly Breen.
- New Found Treasure, Giuliana Vee and No Good Deed all well at Penn National, waiting for races for them somewhere.