• Life On the Edge gets in Monday at Laurel Park. She ran very well in a grass stake at Monmouth Park in September, is ready to run and this allowance race should be a much softer spot.
• Magic Musketier gets in the entries for Sunday at Fresno. Been training well and hoping for a good effort here.

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Enjoy these photos of No Good Deed training at Gulfstream Park bright and early today. Arrived yesterday in great order, went to the track early this morning and trained great.

• Rapstorerocks reared up coming off the track this morning at Monmouth Park, lost his rider and slid on the ground outside the barn. He sustained some ugly cuts, but very fortunately they appear to be flesh wounds of no long term consequence. He was treated by Dr. Dowd, is walking sound and should be able to go back to the track in a few days (barring something worse showing up in the next day or two, unlikely but anything is always possible). There’s a race next weekend for him at Laurel Park and if all goes well he still might be able to make that one. While this appears to be of no long term importance, it’s a textbook example of why we frequently say they are racehorses, not racecars. You can’t “plan on races” like you’d plan a trip to see a football game. You can’t “know when a horse is going to run” because shit happens, all the time. Horses get sick, get hurt, you deal with one day of training, one workout, and one race at a time.