Well it took close to 24 months but Normandruth finally made it back into the winners circle. Rallying from far back behind a fairly ordinary pace setup, Norm and jockey Jose Flores split horses in the stretch and caught the leader about 100 yards from the wire at Parx yesterday. Congrats to my co-owners Crown Racing and Ashley Sooknanan on the nice win. Assistant trainer Sue Ditter, groom Gloria Avalos, blacksmith Joe Williams and vet Dr. Steve McBride did a great job in getting him ready to run again after a multitude of physical issues. We are hoping to run him back on November 22nd at Parx in an entry level allowance race going 6 1/2 furlongs at Parx.
Lyle's Angel ran a decent race off of a brief layoff to be third in the race after Norman's victory. Sent off as the 3-5 favorite, she was bumped at the start by the horse directly outside of her and lost position going down the backside. The winner, a first time starter by Empire Maker, went wire to wire and the runner up sat a good trip in 4th while we were a little too far behind in 8th. Lyle's Angel had missed a little time after getting sick following her 2nd place finish at the end of August and was coming into this race with only 2 workouts since that race. She got a little tired at the end from having to work so hard making up ground but she came back in good shape and should improve off of this race.
Hippocrates Jones is in the 6th race at Parx on Saturday. He is listed at 5-1 coming out of post 10 in a field of 12 with Kristina McManigell riding. He has hit the board in three straight races and hopefully will get a solid pace to close into.
Hemissesu got sandwiched between two horses leaving the gate this morning but gathered herself up and finished the work up well, going 36.54 which was good enough for the 3rd fastest work of the day for that distance.
The 2nd fastest work was turned in by Goonsquad who went in 36.45 from the gate. She will have one more work next week after which we will start looking for a race for her to make her debut.
Jelly Donut worked in 50.35 on Monday morning. He was a bit under the weather late last month and this was a nice move for him. We are looking at a race on the 15th at Parx going two turns for the first time.
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