Our sole starter for the week came at Saratoga Race Course on August 21st with Jersey Jules. It turned out (as expected) to be her final run for Kenwood Racing, as she was claimed out of the race from us, after a dull 6th with no excuse, despite the presense of an enthusiastic group of Kenwood partners and co-owners on hand to cheer her on from our prime - front row box seats in millionaire's row. While she did not perform up to par in her final Kenwood start, Jersey Jules had an exciting and profitible racing career for us. This lovely chestnut filly was purchased by Kenwood at the OBS select sale in March of 2014, for the bargain price of $55,000 and earned just over $95,000 in purses for us with three impressive wins and a number of placings, yet another example of Kenwood's ability to find valued priced horses that can win races and make money for our owners. This year, putting her head in front for the first time in literally the final step, Jersey Jules won a thrilling allowance event with a generous $46,500 purse at Parx on April 4th by a nostril, with the top four horses separated by less than 1 length. It took a picture perfect ride by jockey John Bisono, who tracked the early leaders in 3rd most of the way, and a game effort by Jersey Jules to wear them down in the stretch, while holding off the late closers to get the job done. After a tough race when stopping badly after making the lead in the Parx Oaks on May 2nd, Jules rebounded with a nice 2nd on June 4th in an allowance event at Pimilico Race Cource and a very game 3rd beaten a neck for the win at Belmont Park on the grass on July 5th in her final start before the Saratoga race. This nice, hard trying filly made money for us last year as a two year old, did it again this year at three, and we feel was sold at the right time. We wish her new owners continued success with her.

A very busy workout day on Saturday August 22nd (see below) and an image can be found here. All our two year olds are coming to hand nicely and several are getting close to their debuts. September promises to be a very busy and exciting month for our 2015 two year old crop as Sonny's Pharoah and Title Fight should both run back, Sky Ace and Awesome Papa Al should debut by mid-month, and possibly Hardrainsgonnafall, Three Arch Bay and Mackinaw Pharoah could make their debuts by month's end. JW Racer is expected to run this week at Delaware Park (see below), so by October, all 8 of our 2015 two year old purchases could have run if all keeps going well. Incredible considering that 40% of all horses never race at age two. Awesome Papa Al has shown a lot of speed in his early works (as his pedigree would suggest) and may debut at Belmont Park looking for a big New York bred maiden purse.

A surprise entry for Wednesday August 26th at Delaware Park for the debut of JW Racer. We wanted to run him at Monmouth Park, but when the scheduled race didn’t go for August 23rd and didn’t go again for August 28th, we took advantage of an opportunity to ship out of town to run in a 7 horse field. A good spot to get him started.

Thursday August 27th at Penn National, we have Big Apple Brit in the 3rd race and Fuego Mi Amor in the 8th race. Both are doing very well. Brit’s race came up super tough for the level, as evidenced by the fact that he’s listed at 6 to 1 odds, coming off a super impressive win in his last start, while Fuego’s race came up very soft, as evidenced by the fact that she’s listed as the 2 to 1 favorite off a well beaten 3rd against weak maidens in her last start. The placement was correct for both horses and they are training great, so we are looking for a good start to another busy week as Boardwalk Run and This Quay Home could run Friday August 28th at Penn National, while next weekend (29th/30th) into the following week, we have possible entries for Proven Warrior, Titanium Jo (3 possible allowance spots at three different tracks after very wisely passing perhaps the most competitive 11 horse stake race run at Monmouth Park all season on Saturday August 22nd), Video Mov, PJ’s Enigma and Sonny’s Pharoah (what a list!). Then on September 5th, Long May You Run takes center stage in the $100,000 Banjo Picker Stakes at Parx (mark your calendars, he’s training super for it!) and Huamantla should run the following day at Monmouth Park on September 6th.  What a way to end August and celebrate the Labor Day weekend!

Here are your workouts...

Hardrainsgonnafall (2-Year-Old Filly)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 24/50 - 

Awesome Papa Al (2-Year-Old Colt)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:20 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 29/50 -

J W Racer (2-Year-Old Colt)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 50:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 38/50 - 

Mackinaw Pharoah (2-Year-Old Filly)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:60 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 34/50 - 

Three Arch Bay (2-Year-Old Filly)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 38:40 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 21/22 - 

Sky Ace (2-Year-Old Colt)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 50:40 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 39/50 - 

Fuego Mi Amor (3-Year-Old Filly)

Date: August 22, 2015
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 40:28 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 43/47 - 

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Title Fight (2-Year-Old Colt)

Date: August 20, 2015
Track: GULFSTREAM PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 48:91 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 9/19 -