This could be a very exciting weekend with major entries from coast to coast, here’s a rundown…
- Tomorrow (Wed.) we will enter New Found Treasure for Saturday at Monmouth Park and Magic Musketier for Saturday at Los Alamitos. Both pointing for these spots and doing well.
- Then on Thursday we will enter Life On the Edge in the $75,000 Hollywood Wildcat stakes at Monmouth Park for Sunday. By good fortune (and with some careful maneuvering on our part) an allowance at Parx with an enhanced $80,000 purse scheduled for this Saturday (Pa. Derby Day) has been carried over to next Monday, enter Friday. Since you can scratch from a stake without penalty, we have the option to enter her in the stake at Monmouth, look at the competition, and if the allowance race at Parx goes run there instead if we prefer. Finally, worst case if the Parx race does not go and we don’t like the stake at Monmouth there are several other allowance races towards the end of the month at various tracks. Rarely do you get multiple opportunities like this. Would be great to run in the stake at Monmouth and if it appears to be a realistic spot that’s what we’ll do.
- Also on Thursday we will enter ShimmyShimmy Shake and Start A Fire at Monmouth Park for Sunday, so if all the races go (not likely) we could have two horses at two tracks on Saturday and three at Monmouth on Sunday including the debut of Start A Fire, and Life On the Edge in a stake. Make your plans to join us, stay tuned, and AFTER entries are announced be sure to email George@kenwoodracing.com if you need help with seating – admissions at any track.
This is a good time for another reminder that ALL entries are subject to change for one of many reasons, NO horse is “going to run” until the gate opens, and NOBODY knows “what race, what time, what post”, etc. until after the entries come out tomorrow and Thursday (see above). No we are not hiding this info. from you, no there’s not some other person who knows or place you can look to get earlier notice. Sorry, it simply doesn’t work that way. Many times people say “I just need to know so I can make travel plans or other arrangements”. We’d love to help, but every single horse owner across the country deals with exactly the same problem. People end up booking flights at the last minute cross country to see their horses run in major races, fly out and the horse gets sick the morning of the race or hurt warming up on the way to the starting gate, and they made a trip for nothing. This is not a game for little boys (or girls) in short pants folks!