Another exciting with more wins and action everywhere for the week of September 20th. A large crowd of partners and co-owners was on hand at Belmont on September 16th for the debut of the two NY Breds Awesome Papa Al and Sky Ace, and when the dust had cleared in a bit of a stunner, we had a 5th and a 6th and sold both horses via the claim box. As we had mentioned in a detailed email, we thought Awesome Papa Al would show some speed while Sky Ace would need the race. As it turned out, ‘Al sat 4th most of the race and ended up a well beaten 5th without showing the speed we had expected, while Sky Ace was totally unprepared at the start, propped and was 25 lengths behind in last for much of the race, but then made up a considerable amount of ground in the stretch, passing two horses while still being well beaten in 6th. We had felt there was a modest chance that Awesome Papa Al would be claimed but we were surprised to see Sky Ace claimed off of what were very slow workouts. While we hadn’t anticipated both horses being claimed out of their debuts, that’s part of the racing game and it was hardly a disaster for us at $40,000 apiece. It will be interesting to follow the careers of both of these horses and see how they perform for their new owners.
Thursday evening at Penn National featured three races in one night. First up was our homebred Fuego Mi Amor, who broke her maiden (finally!) in style, by 8+ lengths. A bad group of maidens make no mistake about it, but she did it the right way, blew their doors off and came back happy and sound. She is absolutely not the filly we hoped for when we bred our 3 times stakes winning mare to a horse who was a leading sire in the region that won the Preakness, thus the saying “breed the best to the best and hope for the best”, but she is making some $ now (especially with the Pa. bred bonus money) and looks good enough to win a couple more before it’s all done. Was awful nice to stand in the winner’s circle with Exchanging Fire’s first foal, we aren’t in the breeding business per se because it’s way too much risk, time, and heartache, but there are some really rewarding moments and this was one of them…
Then This Quay Home was a dull 5th with no excuse. Sat a nice trip and simply failed to fire when asked for her best. This filly has just not panned out for us so far. Lucky we only paid $12,500 for her via claim, people buy horses for millions that are just this.
Finally, PJ’s Enigma kept her cool in the paddock (something she doesn’t always do!), broke terribly and had a horrible traffic filled trip, but her rider remained calm, kept his position, grabbed the rail turning for home and got her up in time, holding off a nice filly (for the level) down the stretch to win her 2nd race in a row and give us two wins for the evening. 2 for 3 in one action filled night, not bad! After a rough start since claiming her in Florida last winter, we’ve now had a second followed by two straight wins in her last 3 starts.
A big entry for next week, Long May You Run will run next Thursday at Penn National, 5th race, about 7:45pm. The good news is it’s just a 6 horse field and he gets the favorable outside post. The bad news is it will be the toughest group of horses he’s ever faced, far and away. He’s run out of allowance conditions now and all that’s left are stakes, ‘open’ allowances like this which usually have stake or near stake quality horses, or a drop into claiming races. He deserves a shot to see if he can step it up one more notch and compete with this kind. With the favorable post and at his home track, it’s a good test for him.
A bunch of horses worked out at Monmouth Park Saturday September 19th and all did well (below). Titanium Jo had one of her best works ever, if she comes into her next race doing this well, she will have a legitimate shot against stakes company at Parx in October. JW Racer worked excellent, we’ll enter him next Wed. for Sat at Monmouth with confidence off this, hope the race goes. Mackinaw Pharoah showed a little more speed and is ready to run, just looking for a race for her, maybe opening week on the grass at The Meadowlands. Three Arch Bay had her first timed gate work and handled it well, Video Mov worked excellent and will run closing weekend at Monmouth Park if a race goes for him.
Four wins in September already while we look forward to a big closing weekend at Monmouth, then comes Meadowlands for Oct.
Workouts;
Titanium Jo (3-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: Purchased OBS March 2014
Date: September 19, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 48:80 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 3/35 - See the day's workouts
Mackinaw Pharoah (2-Year-Old Filly)
Date: September 19, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:80 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 9/35 - See the day's workouts
Video Mov (3-Year-Old Gelding)
Your comments for this horse were: Purchased OBS April 2014
Date: September 19, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 50:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 15/35 - See the day's workouts
J W Racer (2-Year-Old Gelding)
Date: September 19, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:60 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 6/35 - See the day's workouts
Three Arch Bay (2-Year-Old Filly)
Date: September 19, 2015
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:80 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 9/35 - See the day's workouts