We survived yesterdays historic earthquake however the oncoming Irene may do a lot more damage to our racing and training plans. The barn has gone through some changes since my last post with a few new additions and a some subtractions as well. The summer has been tough weather wise and that is not even counting the hurricane potentially on its way. Hot and wet have been the themes and neither are particularly conducive to training thoroughbreds. With Parx reopening on Saturday we will know be active at four local tracks, Monmouth, Delaware and Penn National as well as occasional excursions to Presque Isle. Despite all the negatives currently associated with the business of horse racing and the economy in general, the Mid-Atlantic is still a region full of opportunity for racing stables.
TARGET PRACTICE has been entered at Delaware Park on Monday, August 29th in the 4th race. He drew post 4 in a 9 horse field of conditioned $5000 claimers going 1 1/16th on the dirt.
JELLY DONUT popped out of the gate at Parx this morning. We are going to try to squeeze a work into him between rain storms, hopefully on Saturday. His goal right now is September 17th at Parx in a MSW going 5 1/2 furlongs for a $90000 purse. Yes that's right a $90000 maiden race! What a country!
SOUTHERN ACCESS galloped nicely today at Westampton and is scheduled to work 3/8th tomorrow morning. She seems to be over her minor issues and hopefully can get back on a solid training schedule.
LYLE'S ANGEL is pointing to a maiden $40000 race at Parx on Monday, the 29th going 6 1/2 furlongs. She has trained well and hopefully the race materializes.
MUSTANG ISLAND ran a good 2nd last Friday at Monmouth in his first race under the Cornerstone silks. After having a laughably hard time finding a turf race that stayed on the turf we finally were fortunate to get to race and MUSTANG ISLAND despite his interrupted training schedule made a nice run to grab the runner up spot behind a wire to wire winner.
SIX CLICKS is going to ship to Presque Isle Downs to run on the 31st in a $7500 nw2 going 1 mile. Hopefully he handles the polytrack and gets a chance to run at his preferred 2 turn distance.
CASCADES COMET has relocated to Parx and is inching closer to her debut. She has been going to the gate and we are hoping that she gets her gate card soon and get to run mid-September. I don't know exactly how talented she is but I can tell you she is one tough filly.
ANGRY DRAGON worked 48.4 and galloped out in 101.3 this morning at Parx under Jose Flores. After that nice move are pointing her to a potential race on September 3rd at Parx.
RED BARONESS has been galloping well and is going to breeze on Saturday if the track is in good shape.
SLUMBER SMARTY is scheduled to work 3/8ths tomorrow at Westampton Training Center in company with SOUTHERN ACCESS.
EXTRADITE and his partner (no name) by Rubiyat are expected to arrive at Westampton on Tuesday to begin training.
TRAIN FARE has been recovering from a lung infection however was training well before this slight setback.
SLIGOLICIOUS is training nicely while we try to figure out where to run him next. Not easy to have a NW2 turf horse these days with all the rain.
ALL PEACE N QUIET has trained really well and is headed to Parx as she remains on the comeback trail.
GOON SQUAD worked well this week and is progressing as she works towards making her debut sometime this fall.
BEVERLY'S SPIRIT has gone through some typical 2 year old growing pains over the last six weeks but she back on track in full training. We did find out that she is an excellent swimmer!
