I'm not real happy with a record of 7-0-0-3 for the week. Truth be told, I wasn't expecting too much because none of my top runners were going, but no wins or places in seven starts still smarts a bit.
Xtra Run sure is a slow starter. Worst breaking horse I've ever had. She has other skills though and I'm still high on her, but she's gonna need to mature a bit and get into much longer races. She finished 4th out of 7 this week.
Shatterstar, Necromancer, and Quasar all has 3rd place finishes. The first two fellows deserved to hit the board with nice efforts. Quasar looked terrible though and if it wasn't just a 4-horse race, he would have finished well down the line.
You Know My Name looked decent in her debut finishing 5th out of 11. Moondragon had a middle-of-the-pack finish, a disappointment after recording a win in her racing debut. Art of Seduction had a rough trip with little clear sailing, but he looked OK in finishing 8th in a 18-horse field.
A positive development late in the weekend saw a deal between Otsego Farms and Hopeful Farm come to fruition. Four-year-old sprinter Kayson (Handsome Man x Lady Kay, picture above courtesy of The Hopeful Report) will join our stable at a cost of $1,250,000.
We have a distinct lack of sprinters, and needed another veteran racer so Kayson fits the bill on both accounts. He's definitely got speed in the 5-6F range, putting up PSR's of 109, 108, 105 and 104, and he's a late maturing type, so we feel he'll have at least one more full season at peak performance. We're very happy to have him.
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Hopefully he can help turn around your racing luck! :-D
He'll help no doubt, but I haven't exactly been down on my luck this year. Crossbones, House of M, and Refractor have been very good and a couple of the 2yo's have picked up wins as well. I'm happy with the progress this year after several mediocre-to-bad seasons the past few years.
True Jim. Your 3 year olds have been doing well this season. :) well maybe Kayson will motivate those 2 year olds then. :D
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