Horse by Horse News

• New Found Treasure was 5^th this evening at Presque Isle on Polytrack, beating exactly half of the 9 horse field. Far back in last for much of the race, she made a nice wide rally, got in a bit tight when making her move at the top of the stretch, but kept trying to end up beaten about 4 & ½ lengths for the win. She’s an honest filly who did fine on her first try on Polytrack.

Lots of exciting entry news, the weather gets cooler in the fall and the races fewer but for Kenwood Racing the action remains hot…

• Tracy Ann's Legacy was entered (after many previous entries at Monmouth Park) for Sunday at Laurel Park and that too did not go. Fortunately the race was brought back as an extra, enter tomorrow for next Thursday. If we can get her in next week that would be perfect as we could run her once more before she ships to Palm Meadows in Florida. Fingers crossed!
• Highwaytwentyseven runs Saturday, closing day at Monmouth Park. Our final runner for what has been a truly exceptional meet for us at Monmouth Park.
• Itsgottabemyway is in at Parx next Tuesday. There are 16 horses entered, only 10 can run so it’s fortunate she drew in this time, a little long overdue luck. Won’t be easy but she’ll get a shot. After the race she’ll ship to Penn National to train with trainer Mark Salvaggio.
• Rapstorerocks training very well, will be entered tomorrow for next Friday at Penn National, he’s ready.
• Pango doing well out of his 2^nd impressive win in a row. Unfortunately turf racing is coming to an end in the northeast for the season but there are 2 spots to enter him in at Laurel Park next week, hopefully he’ll get in one of them.

A lot of the above horses are turf runners and as grass racing winds down in the entire region for the season opportunities become few and far between and almost every race becomes super-competitive and overfills. We’ve had exceptional success with turf horses this year (and in past years); Tracy Ann’s Legacy, Pango, New Found Treasure, Life On the Edge, etc. have won a ton of races and money for us on the grass, more than 50% of our wins and purses actually in 2020, but there’s no free lunch in the racing game and that’s the challenge with turf horses at this time of year. 

• Blu Candy is training forwardly. The brief time off at the farm really did her a world of good, she’s bred to be better as she matures and it looks like she’s making genuine progress. She’s on track to make her debut well before the end of the year, perhaps even by the end of November. Should work again shortly.
• Adhwaa shipped to Belmont Park with Blu Candy and she too is training well there. Should be ready to run back in about 2 weeks.
• Fire's Finale training well as he heads for the Pa. Nursery Stakes at Parx Dec. 7^th for his final start of the year. It’s an $80,000 stake restricted to Pa. bred 2 year olds going 7 furlongs, which should be an ideal distance for him. After that race we plan to send him down to Ocala for some richly deserved R&R. Timing should be perfect to have him ready for a big three year old season next year after a brief layoff.
• Giuliana Vee  good out of her race at Penn National where she ran an excellent fast closing 2^nd, coming from dead last in the early going with a huge stretch run to miss by less than a length in a very game effort. This is a nice filly and she’s run well for us all year long. There’s a couple of spots for her to run back in the first week of November.
• Life On the Edge enjoying a well-deserved bit of R&R at Sunset Meadow farm. She had 2 wins and two seconds for us this year, earning nearly $50,000. A little turnout while the weather is still good and back in training before the end of the year.
• Seven Seven enjoying his R&R at Sunset Meadow farm also, all good. Here’s a bit of good news, his freshman sire, Laoban, is a sensation. Seven will add to his sire’s blossoming reputation next year!
• Lisa Limon and weanling by Liam’s Map both very well in Kentucky.