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June 27th, 2009
I've just watched the best horses in the country run and both of them brought
tears to me eyes!! Both of course were fillies (what else)! Who can
set a track record pulling up? Rachel Alexandra! Who can win on the
bridle with 129lbs? Zenyatta! There are no words to describe what
both of these fillies do for the sport. In the old days there were real
racing fans who went to watch the horses run, not play the slot machines or just
to bet. Both of these fillies bring back the real fans. It's so
exciting for racing.
Very impressive win by Turf Melody in his second career start. He
stretched out to seven furlongs at Colonial Downs, set them all a merry pace and
won by 15 lengths! Many congratulations to Priscilla Graham and of course
it's great to have a win for Pin Oak's much loved late stallion Maria's Mon.
June 26th, 2009
Absoulute Heaven is now Stakes placed! She was second in the Sabellina
Stakes at Belmont yesterday. She was claimed for $35,000 at Saratoga a
couple of years ago by Bushwood Stables which is the one and only claim I
remember having been made since I've worked here! Obviously well spotted.
She relishes training at Fair Hill on the Tapeta and it's also the first time
since last October that she's run on the turf after notching up two wins and a
third on the Woodbine polytrack. Congratulations to Bushwood Stables.
June 25th, 2009
Rain Date won her second race yesterday at Delaware Park, a track she seems to
favor. Well done Rain Date and congratulations to Pin Oak Stud.
June 24th, 2009
In a nutshell!
Bullsbay to ship
west for Gold Cup
By
Steve Andersen
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Bullsbay, the winner of the Grade 3 Alysheba Stakes at
Churchill Downs last month, is being pointed for the $700,000 Hollywood Gold
Cup on July 11, trainer Graham Motion said on Tuesday.
Motion, who is based in Maryland and had a division in California from last
summer until April, said he is planning to send a small team to California
in coming weeks. The group is expected to include the older sprinter
Rebellion, a candidate for the $300,000 Triple Bend Handicap on July 5, and
the 3-year-old filly Saucey Evening, who will race at Del Mar.
Bullsbay won the Alysheba on May 1, then finished in a dead heat for fourth
in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs on June 13.
Bullsbay has won 6 of 16 starts and $360,943.
"I like the timing from the Stephen Foster," Motion said. "I don't mind the
mile and a quarter. I'd say I'm strongly considering it. If he runs well, we
may keep him [in California] for Del Mar."
The Gold Cup lacks a standout runner, and is expected to draw a large field.
The probable starters include Informed, Rail Trip, Dakota Phone, and Song of
Navarone, the first four finishers in the Californian Stakes on June 13;
Tres Borrachos, who won the Swaps Stakes last summer; Mast Track, the 2008
Gold Cup winner; and the 4-year-old filly Life Is Sweet, who won the Grade 1
Santa Margarita Handicap at Santa Anita earlier this year.
June 22nd, 2009
The trend continued last evening at Presque Isle, this time with Kelowna.
Kelowna was a little unlucky in her previous outing at Pimlico but obviously
made up for it this time. Congratulations to Lavington Stud who bred her
in England.
June 21st, 2009
We had our second first time out two year old winner today
at Colonial Downs. Peace Fire won for Vinery Stable. Many
congratulations to them.
June 19th, 2009
Slam Dunk won at Presque Isle last night. I think that's the fifth winner
we've had there this month - hence the note on June 15th! Congratulations
to Namcook Stable who bought this gelding from England at the end of last year.
June 18th, 2009
Sweet Drop A Line! This 5 year old daughter of Lemon Drop Kind won her
fifth race last night, her third at Presque Isle Downs, a surface she obviously
enjoys. Many congratulations to J. Mack Robinson, who is also her
breeder..
June 15th, 2009
We need more synthetic surfaces!! Apart from Cherokee Queen winning at the
weekend, Bold Abbott being 'pipped' at the post, both at Arlington on their
Polytrack surface, Molly Moon won again at Presque Isle Downs on the Tapeta
surface. Congratulations to Tracy Farmer for his 5 time winner.
Alys Emson was at Keeneland at the weekend:
Graham has to work while he's there. Hold
Sefroua for a bath, talk on the phone and give orders - all at the same time!
Having some attention for being so good
Rebellion enjoying his bath
Zimmer
Teaching Sefroua to read to condition book
Sefroua and Alice
Colonel Rutledge on the rail and Rebellion
Beautiful Rebellion
June 12th, 2009
I've just got back from Middleburg, VA where I watched some
great racing yesterday at Graham's Mother's wonderful tack consignment store she
owns and runs down there.
We had three winners yesterday, two of them Stakes.
No Use Denying had been entered main track only in the John W. Rooney Memorial
Stakes at Delaware Park so it was great when it came off the turf. She
made it a parade and won by 10 lengths! Congratulations to Pin Oak Stud
for their home bred winning her 4th race.
Cherokee Queen won her Stake, the Possibly Perfect Stakes
at Arlington Park. Nobody wanted to make the lead so she led from start to
finish to win by 5 1/2. Congratulations to J. Mack Robinson for his home
bred winner too.
Million Seller won at Colonial after having a break from
running in Southern California. Dr. Iida is in Japan but maybe he got to
see her run! Well done, Dr. Iida.
I must not of course forget Bullsbay who ran a wonderful
race at Churchill in the Grade I Stephen Foster to dead-heat for 4th place.
He was beaten a length, a neck and a nose!! Not bad!
June 10th, 2009
Some great shots of Better Talk Now at Belmont last Saturday. The first
one though is of Slam Dunk going out for his race with John Panagot looking very
smart! All taken by Lydia Williams.
Very relaxed in the paddock
Great race shot
Credit to On The Wire Photos
Everyone's happy!
June 8th, 2009
Over the weekend we had two winners with Spring Party at Presque Isle Downs,
and Leamington who was ridden at Churchill by Calvin Borel who redeemed
himself for his ride on Mine That Bird at Belmont on Saturday!!! It was his first ride for us so we
were very pleased.
Congratulations to Augustin Stable and Hickory Tree Stable.
June 6th, 2009
What a wonderful horse Better Talk Now is. Today, at the age of 10 he was
third in the Grade I Manhattan Stakes at Belmont Park. Ridden for the
first time by Jeremy Rose he was a little closer to the pace and came with his
usual finishing flourish and only beaten 2 3/4 lengths! He was also in the
post parade for the first time in a while! We are so proud
of him. Congratulations to Bushwood Stables.
Belmont Park
Ten year-old gelding
Better Talk Now
(Talkin Man) closed gamely
to finish third in the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap (G1) on Saturday,
marking the sixth consecutive season he has finished in the top three in a Grade
1 race.
The 2004
John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) winner and ’06 Breeders’ Cup Turf runner-up
has finished on the board in a graded stakes every year since 2004. He has
amassed five Grade 1 wins among eight graded stakes victories.
A career
earner of $4,256,664, Better Talk Now is stabled at Fair Hill Training Center
with trainer Graham Motion. “I am really thrilled,” Motion said. “I wanted
to see exactly where he was, and I think today he showed that he is back where
he was. …Our goal is to run in the Sword Dancer [Invitational Stakes (G1)
on August 15 at Saratoga Race Course] next. We would love to win another Grade 1
with him.”
Better Talk Now on Friday evening at feed time.
The following was taken by Tara Cullen, our
Cosequin representative
June 4th, 2009
Winsome Ways won at Presque Isle Downs last night to make it two wins with us.
She won a hard fought battle down the stretch to prevail in a photo!
Well done Winsome and congratulations to breeders and owners Pin Oak Stud.
June 1st, 2009
Nice start to June with Cozy Cottage winning nicely at Delaware in a pretty
hotly contested maiden race. Congratulations to J. V. Shields, Jr.
May 29th, 2009
We had a winner at Arlington yesterday! After having being scratched twice
at Churchill when her turf races came off the grass, Graham sent
Promulgation to Arlington Park. Don't know much about the jockey Quincy
Hamilton but he seems to ride like Julien Leparoux, leaving it till the last
minute to make his move!! It worked out though and she prevailed by 1/2
length. Congratulations to this sister of Dr. Brender, home bred
by Frank O'Toole.
More photo's from Alys..................
Irish Blarney and Lisa
Cat Park and Bernardo
Across and Mark
Benny and Be Free
May 28th, 2009
The good trend continued yesterday at Delaware Park when Shared Account won her
third race. Many congratulations to Sagamore Farm.
May 27th, 2009
Silver Reunion won yesterday at Delaware Park on a wet-fast track. It was
originally scheduled for the turf but due to drizzle, making it a slick surface
they rightly took it off the grass. This is the second race she's won and
interestingly, both races were taken off the turf! Congratulations to
Airdrie Stud.
Alys Emson was here at the weekend and she took some really good photos too.
Just come through the tunnel on the way to the Tapeta
Waiting!
Pendulum with Benny
Sumo going by! Xav Aizpuru up
One Man To Beat with Lisa and Million Seller with Molly
Jazz Jam and Jill
Leigh on Stonestreet Star
Lisa on Lavender Sky
Icabad Crane and Leigh
Jade's Revenge's little sister - not so little! Mind
you, Jill is small!
Hundred Adams on the rail with un-named Open Flirt colt
Commentator's full sister, Source Of Humor, Jorge riding
May 26th, 2009
Moving Violation won for the second time today, this time at Philadelphia Park.
Ridden very patiently by Kendrick Carmouche he had to go quite wide to pass the
others but he was definitely the best. Congratulations to Mitchell Ranch
LLC.
I had to put this photo up that a friend of mine sent me. It is of Gracie,
a palomino mare who was found starving to death behind a feed store. She
was rescued and it now the amazing age of 39!!
May 25th, 2009
Maggie Kimmitt, our resident photographer took some really nice photo's on
Saturday:
Lisa on Bullsbay
Mark on Miss Lombardi
Changing Vista on the left breezing with Jazz Jam
My favorite, Deal Making with Leigh
Greg and Moving Violation
Spring Party in her paddock
Molly on Zak's In Town
May 23rd, 2009
Another good day so far. Amie's Legend won her first Stake at Pimlico, the
Shine Again Stakes. Congratulations to Two Legends Farm who I know went
down there today with a big crowd!
Caprice, although she didn't win notched up a good third in the Grade II
Sheepshead Bay Stakes at Belmont Park.
To cap off the day Cherokee Artist was third in the Hanshin Cup (Grade III) at
Arlington Park.
I also have to mention Maggie Kimmitt, our resident photographer! She and
a friend bought a horse a couple of years ago for $5,000. They gave him
plenty of time to mature and has only run two races prior to today. Today
he WON! As you can imagine, she is ecstatic! His jockey Matt Rispoli
was riding only for the second time in his career. He knew the horse well
as he rode him while he was being educated at the Elloree Training Center, but
how exciting for him too!
May 22nd, 2009
Graham had a nice birthday present by having four runners; two winners, one
second and a third! Our winners were Kurbat at Philadelphia Park winning
the MGK 102.9 Stakes and Molly Moon winning by 11 1/2 lengths at Presque Isle
Downs! For Sally ran a great race to be second, and Kelowna running for
the first time in this country ran a fast finishing third, both fillies not
having clear runs. Congratulations to the winning owners Augustin Stables
and Tracy Farmer.
May 21st, 2009
Undisputed Legend ran a fast race over five furlongs on the Pimlico turf
yesterday to score by one length. Congratulations to David Wade for his
home-bred filly. David came to congratulate his horse personally this
morning at the barn as he couldn't be at the races yesterday!
May 19th, 2009
Nice win today by Luminaire Mystique at Philadelphia Park. She was behind
the field and looked like she was going to trail but when we looked at the time
they were going we smiled to ourselves! 21 and 44 seconds for the first
quarter and half were FAST. We knew she could pick them up nicely!
Congratulations to Airdrie Stud.
May 16th, 2009
Whatever the reasoning behind entering Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness (and
I'm still not sure I really understand), once she was in I felt I had to cheer
her on as girls beating the boys is always special. I also wanted badly
for Mine That Bird not to have been a one-off in the Derby. I suppose I
got both my wishes today. Rachel Alexandra definitely has to be one of the
best fillies we've seen in a few years, and as for little Mine That Bird!!
He never ceases to amaze me how he can run that fast from the back of the field
like that at the end of the race! Actually, he reminds me of Better Talk
Now! I can't imagine why the trainer looked disappointed after being
second to a great filly. Hey, we were ecstatic last year when Icabad Crane
was third to Big Brown. You'd have thought we'd BEATEN Big Brown! We
proudly put him behind his Preakness webbing for at least two weeks after he
arrived back at Fair Hill!
I wonder what the standings are for a jockey to win the Triple Crown on
different horses?
May 15th, 2009
Wendy Uzelac took this lovely photo of Good Ending galloping at Fair Hill the
other day with Fenella riding:
An update from our boy Shake The Bank! He looks so collected in his
dressage trot!
Hi guys,
Just wanted to send you some new pictures we got of Shake last weekend- now
that he's shedding out and is no longer a hairy yak.
He's learning some new skills incredibly fast and seems to be thriving with
the challenge of the more technical things we're doing. He has settled down
a ton (we can ride quietly in the ring with other horses! Yay!) and is happy
as can be. All is well, and as soon as I can get my act together he'll be
making his show debut- at which time I'll flood you with more pictures :) (
He brings these photo-op sessions on himself, he's just too darn
photogenic...)
Hope all is well! Take care!
Lauren
May 14th, 2009
A nice introduction to this country for Salsa Star today at Pimlico on the
grass. A little reluctant to go in the gate, she was very happy to run her
race and win by a comfortable 5 1/2 lengths. Congratulations to Sagamore
Farm. Photo below by Maggie Kimmitt.
No Use Denying makes it a two timer at Pimlico, winning by
5 lengths!!! Many congratulations to Pin Oak Stud.
Maggie was on hand again for the photo!
To cap off a good day, Magger Bags (love that name)! wins
her race at Presque Isle Downs. No resident photographer up there I'm
afraid but again, congratulations to Larry Johnson and Lynn Contino.
May 13th, 2009
Maggie Kimmitt's at Pimlico and she caught a couple of the Preakness entries
this morning:
General Quarters looking none the worse for wear after his
'fender bender' yesterday on his way to the track
The little Mine That Bird
He always looks so happy and content
May 9th, 2009
Amie's Legend won her second race at Delaware ridden confidently by Joe Rocco,
Jr. I hope Matt Haney was there as he missed her first win!!
Congratulations Matt.
May 6th, 2009
Couple of photos of Bullsbay taken last week by onthewirephotos.com
A concentrating Jeremy Rose
Slipping through on the rail
May 5th, 2009
Dancerama broke her maiden today at Delaware Park on a sloppy track. Sent
to the front by Jeremy Rose, there she stayed until the wire! In fact she
drew away and won by 7 1/2 lengths. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Leverett Miller.
May 4th, 2009
Yet ANOTHER win by Mary Motion on Orpington! This time at Great Meadows on
Virginia Gold Cup Day at the weekend. Well done Mary! Four for four
now I think! Photo's taken by Doug Lees.
Proud Dad!
May 2nd, 2009
I think the Derby result was great! Small gelding bought for just $9,500
trained by an unknown small trainer! That kind of result gives so many
people hope that they can do it too. You don't always have to be the
highest price or trained by a top trainer. To save money too
they travelled 21 hours in a horse trailer! To give the horse his due
though he was top two year old in Canada and did run in the Breeders Cup.
I would like to know the story of how he ended up in Sunland Park, New Mexico.
What I liked best was watching the little horse. I looked at his breeding
and form before the race and mentioned that he might have a chance (not really
believing it)! Watching him on the overhead blimp from the
three furlong pole one would think he'd just broken from the gate he went so
fast. They were TOP horses he was running by as if they were standing
still! While he was being led back to the winners enclosure he was dwarfed
by Donna Barton's pony - and he had his ears pricked the whole time! A
happy horse who looked like he couldn't blow out a candle! Well done all
the connections.
A photo of Independent George and Icabad Crane breezing together which Maggie
Kimmitt took last week.
May 1st, 2009
 Bullsbay and Jeremy Rose had a wonderful Alysheba Stakes (Grade III) victory
today at Churchill Downs. Taking the shortest route on the rail, which some
jockeys had been not wanting to take thinking the ground was not as lively,
worked out wonderfully for Bullsbay. The second horse challenged him in
the stretch which was great as that made him even more determined.
Many congratulations to Mitchell Ranch, Lewkowitz Racing and Joe Rice.
I have to mention the Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra too. What a filly!
Someone mentioned that it was like a workout to her. To me it wasn't even
that! The rider has to move during a workout!! Well done to her
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