Winter Blues

Well Target Practice finally drew in a race on Saturday night's card at Penn National which sounds good until you look at the weather report for Saturday which calls for snow in Grantville. Let's hope that it passes through without disrupting the racing schedule.

Of course the PA bred Maiden Special Weight race for Cascades Comet and Sweetjudyblue Eyes didn't fill and with the next one scheduled for sometime in March we are going to go to plan's B and C. Cascades Comet is going to run in a maiden 25 at Parx on the 28th (making the far from guaranteed assumption that the race will fill and be carded) and Sweetjudyblue Eyes is going to be entered tomorrow in a Maiden Special Weight race going 5 1/2 furlongs on Monday. These races aren't where we want to be but 4 year old maidens need to run, not sit in the barn waiting for state bred races that may not come. I appreciate the owners of these horses being so understanding as they are scratching their collective heads trying to figure out how a state bred racing program supposedly as great as PA's claims to be, fails to even offer state bred maiden races. I can say without a doubt that PA is going to lose more than a few mares because of the lack of racing opportunities for those owners wishing to keep the foals and race them in restricted statebred company.

Slumber Smarty is on course for her next start on Febuary 6th at Parx going 6 furlongs.

Lyle's Angel is being pointed to a NW1x allowance race next Sunday at Parx going 6 1/2 furlongs.

 Jelly Donut is in maiden 12500 limbo. Seriously he worked well this past week and is going to try to run again on the 30th at Parx in a maiden 15000 race around 2 turns.

Angry Dragon worked really well on Tuesday and is inching closer to her return.

 Outta Jail and Speedy Trial both worked nicely on Tuesday at Westampton and will ship to Parx next week to start serious gate work. The Crown Racing fillies are still a bit ahead of their male stablemates Extradite and One Time Richie who need more training miles underneath their belts before they start breaking from the starting gate.