A lot of exciting news, but we’ll begin with another interesting Blog, take a look.

Another successful week(end) ended on an exciting note, with two good efforts and two claims, here’s all the news…

• Diamond Play, making her 2019 debut at Monmouth Park in race 8, a large and competitive field, ran just the race we’d expected today as she closed stoutly to finish 5^th, beaten about 3 lengths for the win. She was claimed from us for $30,000, something we didn’t expect but weren’t totally shocked by either. We like the filly and would have been happy to keep her, but we also felt going in that if by chance someone wanted to pay us $30,000 for a filly we paid $12,500 for last summer and had earned about $40,000 in purse money for us to date we certainly wouldn’t complain, and we’re not. She’s a really gritty, hard trying filly and off this effort is capable of winning races this summer at Monmouth. For us the bottom line is we paid $12,500 and just received $30,000 after earning far more purse income than her expenses. A hearty congratulations to all the owners of this very successful and profitable group!
• We lost one via claim and added one right back a few races later, as we claimed the light raced three-year-old filly Shimmyshimmy Shake from the 12^th race at Monmouth Park for group #47 (Start A Fire) for $12,500. Lots more to come on the claim front and so far so good with this one, seems to be walking totally sound after the race.
• Next up Starring John Wain was a very game 3^rd, beaten just 1 & ½ lengths for the win in race 5 at Golden Gate, despite running against open company as a Ca. bred. The race was taken off the turf and he once again ran hard and well on the GGF dirt track, battling hard in the stretch to just get up for 3^rd while also just missing 2^nd money in a 4 horse photo from 2^nd-5^th.  This was his amazing 8^th race in a row finishing 2^nd or 3^rd, hard to find a more honest and consistent runner anywhere.
• Annie’s Candy was the highlight of the week with an impressive win in race 4 at Golden Gate Fields on Thursday.  He got a great setup and mowed the field down in the stretch to win going away in the fast time of 109:91. Kenwood partner Helen Hansel was on hand to welcome Annie’s Candy into the winner’s circle and kick off another big weekend for us on a very good note indeed.
• Two races didn’t end up with as good as we hoped Saturday as Blue Eyed Beth sat just off the pace of two dueling leaders early, made a bold move in the stretch, than flattened out just a bit right at the wire to finish 5^th while beaten just 1&3/4 lengths for the win in race 4 at Gulfstream Park. This filly always tries hard, but off this it appears she’s just not quite as quick on turf as she is on the dirt, so we’ll run her back on the dirt going forward. Exchanging Ember was the 2^nd choice in race 2  at Penn National and sat a nice trip just off the pace also but failed to gain ground when asked, finishing 4^th. 
• Taima The Hawk, Life On the Edge, Giuliana Vee, Shake It Up Baby, Bullion, Vibrant Spirit and More Ice all good out of recent works

So for the week we had a win and a 3^rd from 5 starts, plus a very profitable payday with the claim of Diamond Play.

Stay tuned for an announcement of another morning training session next week.