Kenwood Racing's Nominal Dollars finished a game 2^nd on December 10th at Aqueduct, beaten just over 1 length for the win by the other logical horse in the race (they were co-favorites), who dropped down in class and went wire to wire. Last in the early going, after a bobble at the break, Nominal Dollars made a big wide move on the far turn, drew alongside the leader at the top of the stretch and just couldn’t get by him. He was claimed from us out of the race, as expected, and while our hope was to win here and come out with a large profit, even with 2^nd money, we did well with him. Nominal Dollars made five starts for us and never ran a bad race, with a 4^th, three 3rds, and the 2^nd. With the generous purses in New York, even without a win, that more than paid the training bills with positive cash flow, to boot. In a tough game like this, if they all came out this way, we’d have no complaints. Just as a brief teachable moment here, if this horse had run in the exact same races at Gulfstream with less than half the purses, we’d have lost a considerable amount of money. Keep that firmly in mind the next time you think how “fun” it is to race in Florida. Kudos to trainer Gary Gullo for a job well done with this horse for us~!