Running after a longer than expected layoff, Patton Proud was a solid 2nd in his Kenwood debut at Aqueduct on November 9th and was claimed from us. While we obviously would have prefered to run sooner and had more starts with this horse, we feel we did well to get a good race from him and focus on other-better horses, so this was not a bad outcome at all here.  We thank our partners and co-owners for their support and trainer Gary Gullo for a job well done, under less than perfect circumstances