Hello Kenwood Racing Family!

    MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Sunday, August 24^th and our ANNUAL KENWOOD RACING PICNIC for the NJ Bred Racing Festival at Monmouth Park! More information to follow, but you don’t want to miss this family-fun day at the track with the entire Kenwood Racing family! It’s been a bit of slower couple of weeks overall, but Kenwood Racing picked up our first win of 2025 this past Wednesday, when our 3YO homebred filly, VINO LIMONE, won a thrilling stretch drive to get her nose down first at the wire, in a Claiming sprint on the Gulfstream Park synthetic course! Congratulation to Group 96 on getting the win! Vino Limone was claimed away from us out of her winning effort, and while we wish the new connections the best of luck with her moving forward, we’ll also keep our eyes on where she ends up next! The Equibase Result Notification is below, and I have attached the Race Chart as well.

CALI HEAT is entered next Thursday, February 6^th, at Penn National in a dirt sprint, and comes into the race of a bullet breeze on Monday, for his final prep for the race. His Breeze and Race Notifications are below, and here are the comments to Group 93, after the early Entry:

Hello Group 93,

   Penn Nation is set to resume racing next Thursday, February 6^th, and we have CALI HEAT right back in the entries that day in Race 8; a Clm5000NW3 race going 5.5-furlings on the main track. Cali Heat gets top rider Tyler Conner in the saddle, and they drew the #3 Post Position for the 9:00 PM Post Time. The slight cutback in distance should help with Cali Heats early speed and inside post position, so we’ll need a clean break to get early positioning. Cali Heat is 8-1 on the ML in the slight drop in class amongst a field of eight, and the horse to beat on paper is #4-Destinano, who drops in class after finding some success within Starter Allowance company in his past four starts. #6-Pentatonic has shown early speed in the past, but it doesn’t look like anyone has the same early speed as Cali Heat, so we’ll look to have him on the front end, leading the way from gate-to-wire! Jockey Tyle Conner worked Cali Heat on Tuesday this week, while laying down the bullet breeze for 4-furlongs; doing it all within himself. The Kenwood Racing team is coming off our first win of 2025 this past Wednesday, with our homebred filly Vino Limone, and we’re looking to keep it going next week with Cali Heat! I have attached the final Past Performances for your handicapping, and I’ll be in touch next Thursday, after scratches, to provide our final thoughts and information.

Our NJ Bred filly, RED HEAD ITALIAN is getting a brief 30-day break at Sunset Meadows Farm in NJ through February, as we turn our sites to the Monmouth Park Meet, and the rich NJ Bred purses that await the restricted, statebred racing! She’s been doing well out of her nice 2^nd place finish in mid-January, and with no great race options in the current Condition Books, we’re going to give her a little R&R before pointing towards a NJ Bred Allowance on May 24^th, with a $68,000 purse! RHI has also shown some of her best running of the turf, so we’re excited for Spring/Summer to arrive! RHI shipped up to NJ on Friday, and has settled in nicely at Sunset Meadows. We’ll make a farm visist in February to spoil her, before she heads back to training with Brittany Russell at Laurel Park in early March.

Our ARC23 mainstay and stable star, OUTLAW COUNTRY, is back in training this week at Palm Meadows with Kelly Breen and team, after a well deserved four-month layoff! OC raced for 25 straight months after his 2YO debut in September of 2022, including 27 races, 8 wins on dirt and turf, and career earnings over a quarter of a million dollars to date! OC really enjoyed his time away from the track just being a horse, but the past couple weeks he started to get his ‘feisty’ attitude back and was showing signs he was ready to make his return! All good so far, as he went back to the track for the first time on Thursday. We’ll look to get him into a race or two down in Florida, before Kelly ships north in late April/early May. Please see the attached picture of Outlaw Country and his farm dog buddy, on one of his last days in NJ!  

Our homebred filly LISA’S PALACE is doing well at Penn National with Mark Salvaggio, and will be looking for a race in the next couple weeks as Penn resumes their racing next week, after a short Winter break.  Her 2YO half sister, CONNECT x LISA LIMON ’23 is doing great in Delaware while getting Delaware Certified, and will begin the breaking process next week as the weather has started to clear out down there.

Finally, our ARC25 group is off to the races with their first claim yesterday, after getting outshook on a few horses over the past couple weeks down at the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet. ONE TIME WILLARD, the Stakes Placed NJ Bred had a troubled trip from start to finish yesterday, finishing 6^th beaten by 5-6 lengths, but he came out of the race doing well, and we’re excited to have in the stable. We’re going to look to protect One Time Willard for the lucrative NJ Bred purses coming up this Summer, and congratulations to our ARC25 group on the first claim of the year!  More to come for ARC25!