Frustrating

The best part of training horses is racing. So it is very frustrating when you have horses ready to run and find yourself with nowhere to run them. Jelly Donut is sitting on ready yet was excluded from a race last weekend because of a stupid rule stating that any race with 8 PA breds entered automatically becomes a restricted state bred race (excluding the other non PA breds despite the field not being full). So the racing office brings the race back as an extra the next week and despite getting 6 horses in the race, they don't use or bring it back. Which leads me to Lloydobler who was entered the other day in a 7500 maiden race that supposedly only drew 6 entries as well. The race was brought back as an extra for the next racing day and lo and behold 13 entries materialize. Being that they only run 12, guess what horse was excluded...that's right Lloydobler who didn't get a chance to run 1st because there wasn't enough entries and then because there were too many. Tomorrow I get to enter 2 PA bred fillies in a PA bred maiden race at Penn National (Parx has now decided that they aren't going to card PA bred races unless of course the wonderful 8 PA bred entered rule kicks in). The last 2 times this race was written it failed to fill despite a $39k purse so I am crossing my fingers that some of my cowardly (and stupid) training brethren decide that "hey maybe it makes sense to run a PA bred maiden in a PA bred race with a $39000 pot that takes a low 50 Beyer figure to win". Not holding my breath. Target Practice was supposed to run this week in a staple of the Penn National card, the dated 4000 claimer yet the race was so popular with the brethren that it overfilled. Always a nice statement about the quality of horses competing at your track when the $4000 claiming race for horses that have not won a race in 6 months attracts an overflow field yet a $39000 maiden race doesn't even get close to filling.