General News

  • No purchases today at a shockingly strong opening day of the Fasig-Tipton 2yo sale in Maryland (read TDN article). Our team scoured the sale looking for high quality horses at attractive prices and at the end of day one, came close on two of our top choices but were unwilling to pay top dollar in a strong market. We attended this sale because all indications were for obvious reasons this would be a buyer’s market, but that clearly was not the case today. We do have four horses for tomorrow that were in our absolute top group and if one or two of them fall through the cracks and/or the sale slows down on day 2, we’ll be there. In March, we bought Seven Seven after getting shut out early at what is more and more looking like a super value price (he just had another excellent work today at Monmouth Park and if he had been in this sale, he would have almost certainly brought a lot more than we paid for him) and hopefully we’ll be able to come up with something similar tomorrow. As our loyal owners know, unlike syndicates who use client money and mark up horses, our interests are firmly aligned with yours because we invest our own money in every horse we buy, all with NO markups. When we buy a horse you know we feel we got something really worth owning at the right price. All the horses on our final bid list have been personally selected by trainer Kelly Breen and our team; with luck we’ll be able to come home with one of the select group we really want tomorrow. Stay tuned! 

 

  • Our next online event via GoToMeeting will be held next Thursday, July 2nd at 7:30pm. The meeting will offer a status report for all your horses, the latest updates on the racing season at Monmouth Park which begins the following day, plus a discussion of the just concluded Fasig-Tipton 2 year old sale and an opportunity for your comments and questions.
  • Monmouth Park opens for live racing this Friday, a fun summer ahead! As a reminder, post time for the Friday opener is 5:00 pm!

Horse by Horse News

  • Seven Seven had another fine work this morning at Monmouth Park, in company, quick without being pressured. He’s making steady progress towards his debut which should come towards the end of July. He’ll have some gate work now, as he approaches his debut.

Horse Workout Notification
June 29, 2020
Seven Seven (2-Year-Old Colt)
Date: June 29, 2020
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 36:40 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 11/42

  • Life on the Edge was a close 4th today at Delaware Park, beaten just 2 lengths for the win in a much improved effort. The difference was the very unfavorable inside post, which meant she was stuck on the rail and pressured throughout. When she finally got some running room in the stretch she rebroke nicely and ran hard to the wire. With an outside post and a different trip here, she was the winner. That’s literally just the luck of the draw. She was not claimed (as we expected she wouldn’t be) and we are glad because she’s honestly a much better horse on the turf and despite a rough start to her 3 year old season she’s sound and has talent.  Kelly Breen feels confident she’ll run very well at Monmouth Park next time off the good race today.
  • Rapstorerocks runs July 3rd in a good spot at Penn National; if he runs back to his last race and gets a decent trip he has a great shot to end up in the winner’s circle.
  • New Found Treasure runs Wed. at Penn National. The good news is, it’s just the right spot. The bad news is she got the very unfavorable far outside post in an overflow field and it’s back in just 10 days, but she’s doing well and should be fit and ready for this and other distance grass races all summer.
  • Giuliana Vee ready to run anytime. There’s a race for her at Penn National to enter in this week.
  • No Good Deed doing well, there’s a race for her to enter in at Penn National this week also.
  • Fire’s Finale excellent out of a fine debut at Gulfstream Park. Off this nice effort we have even more reason to believe he’s a talented horse and we are looking forward to an exciting career with him. Congratulations to all his owners!
  • Pango shipped to trainer Mark Salvaggio at Penn National this morning from Gulfstream Park in search of softer spots than he has run in recently. 
  • Our Liam’s Map – Lisa Limon foal well at Hidden Brook Farm in Ky. Hard to find a better looking horse than this. Lisa is back in foal and doing well and so far it’s been nothing but good news for this group.