Saratoga Summer
Spending five days in Saratoga would have to go down as one of the greatest experiences we have ever had at the races.
15th September 2015
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Spending five days in Saratoga would have to go down as one of the greatest experiences we have ever had at the races.
The electrocardiograph was pretty smooth throughout his life – he didn’t allow himself too many highs and lows, but he was a good man, a good honest to goodness person, generous, and loyal to his friends.
Both Rachel Alexandra’s foals have won first time out and Rachel joined an elite band of Gr1 winning champion racemares when her daughter, Rachel’s Valentina, won the Gr1 Spinaway Stakes last Saturday
Once we start bending the rules, we have a broken system, not a broken rule.
Vercingetorix, who traces directly back in female line to 1000 Guineas winner Problem, is the second son of Silvano to retire to stud in South Africa. He has settled in well at his new Maine Chance home and is all set for the 2015 breeding season
Two of the best horses in Singapore are set to lock horns in one of the races of the season this coming Sunday
This past weekend and the upcoming one are pretty low-key in terms of quality and big fields at the turf club, and although times are quiet locally, internationally there is big news to report
Sex Appeal – the unraced daughter of Buckpasser left a turf legacy still going strong in modern Gr1 pedigrees
It’s always possible – it is not LIKELY but it is unquestionably possible – that one of them, almost any one of them, could be the greatest horse that has ever set foot on a racetrack.
There are no sales for a couple of weeks so we can get on with the business of training the horses. We are all in the middle of vaccines and trying to work our way around them. It is not easy but we seem to be winning and I am looking forward to pulling out some of the better horses in the next few weeks
I attend track work on Tuesday and Wednesdays. By Tuesday the nominations have come out so I have an idea of which horses to look out for and record the vision as well as hand time the final workouts on the various tracks
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
