Thursday, August 22, 2013

Catching up

It has been a while since our last post and we have a lot of catching up to do!

Oklahoma Den is in the 5th race at Monmouth on Saturday afternoon. The race is a maiden 20000 on the turf going 1 1/16th and he drew post 1 with apprentice Manuel Franco riding. Oklahoma Den was unfortunate both his last starts at higher levels having the saddle slip in one and breaking slowly in the other.

Frosty's Whirl broke his maiden last out, winning a maiden 25000 race at Penn National by 5 lengths in his first start in close to a year. He is entered at Saratoga for Saturdays card however a minor cough is probably going to prevent him from racing.

Small Town Talk has had a lot of luck this year unfortunately almost all of it has been bad. In his first start off of the layoff in the Salvatore Mile he drew a tough post position on an intensely biased track and raced pretty well despite not hitting the board. His 2nd race back in the Monmouth Cup was run over an embarrassment of a track surface on Haskell Day. He absolutely could not handle the ridiculously deep footing and subsequently ran uncharacteristically poor and was found to have bled afterwards most likely as a result of struggling with the surface. We are hoping to get into a turf allowance race this Sunday at Monmouth.

Malibu Murmur ran 2nd last Sunday at Parx in a starter allowance race after winning her prior start at Delaware Park. She tries very hard and we are hoping to get a few more starts in with her before she is sold as a racing/broodmare prospect in the Fasig-Tipton mixed sale in October in Saratoga.

Midas Terms made his return to the races a winning one a few weekends ago. Having been off since last October with a fairly serious injury, Midas Terms dominated a conditioned claiming race winning easily by more than 8 lengths. Susan Ditter did a great job nursing him back to health and you won't find a more deserving owner in the sport than Bobby Okuba.

Mustang Island who had been off since April, won his comeback race on July 17th at Penn, a conditioned claimer on the turf. Under a clever ride by Josean Ramirez, Mustang Island, who often races on or near the lead, came from far back to run by the leaders in the stretch. He is going to be entered to run this Saturday at Penn National in a open claiming race.

Nose First capped off a big night for the barn July 17th (we went 3 for 3 that night at Penn) by wiring a field of maiden claimers to break his maiden in his 2nd start. Unfortunately the gate crew somehow allowed him to get loose behind the gate this past Saturday and he was scratched from his turf debut after dumping the jockey and running off.

Sweetjudyblue Eyes made up some ground late while sprinting in her return to the races last month. She is being pointed to a PA bred allowance race next week going two turns.

I Can See Russia has been sent to Gum Tree farm for a little R & R.

Pennypennypenny was wheeled back July 4th in an allowance race that was for some reason taken off of the turf (no rain). She broke in a tangle and sometime during the running was hit in the eye with a clod of dirt which prevented her from ever mounting a rally. We have taken our time getting her back to the race and she will be seen this fall at Laurel back on the turf.

Made to Love Her ran a decent 5th in her comeback race after missing time due to a leg infection. She came out of the race in good shape, posting a solid workout yesterday at Monmouth and is being pointed to a race on September 14th at Churchill Downs.

Sinatra's Dancer is a NJ bred that we claimed after losing Max's First. He ran on that same extremely deep Monmouth dirt track as did Small Town Talk and didn't appreciate the "new" surface at all. He is being pointed to a NJ allowance/optional claimer on August 31st.

Lyle's Angel just hasn't fired since her solid 2nd earlier in the Monmouth Park meet. We are going to look at several options for her.

Latent Charm is going to have an "official" work Friday at Westampton. She has trained well since returning to training after some time off.

Pleasantly Miranda is finally coming around and is going to be headed to Penn National to get ready to run soon.

Stella's Issac should make his first start soon.

Brown Monba (not his actual name) is a 2 year old PA bred that was purchased by Davant Latham for Gary Marsh and Kurt Luscombe at OBS April. He has trained well and is improving seemingly every day. Look for him towards the end of September/beginning of October.

My Beholder is a Fu Peg 2 year old colt who was sent to us by noted KY horseman Beau Lane. He has had a couple solid works since arriving at Monmouth and should be ready to roll sometime in September.

One Revolution has some bone bruising and we are giving her some time off with the thought of bringing her back this Winter in Florida.

All Peace N Quiet has had 5 works back since her return. She has progressed nicely and should be ready to run soon.