Horse Racing questions and answers

[batt33]

another army mule going in a grade 2 stakes at los alamitos..added to post 10927

Copy that! hopefully I'll remember to watch it!

[batt33]

Oh boy. Stay safe Batt.
Good luck!

Thanks STR! Steep ugly country ..right now it's a boat ride and a 2 hour hike to the bottom of the fire for the hotshot crews..... Boy I loved being on a" hotshot crew" couldn't wait for the adventure.... now I look at that and say " it's a young person's game" and do everything I can to watch out for their safety...... sounds off but.... I work at getting a dedicated "hoist helicopter" available for them. I order Paramedics to be inserted with the crews to provide "ALS" among other things... didn't mean to go "off topic".......

[JBEX]

hard and dangerous work..hope things go well and everybody ,including yourself, come out of it ok

[JBEX]

new page ..

week 1 .. 7/3 -7/6
opening day sar to last day dmr (mid sept)
army mule progeny at ...

saratoga/del mar/monmouth/ellis/colonial
(del mar and colonial haven't begun yet)

everything for this week will be in this post
will be a notification when I post


7/3 thursday ******

nothing


7/4 friday (done) ******

saratoga 3 @ 2:14
#4 shadow dragon (4-1)

out @ 7-1


7/5 saturday (done) ******

monmouth 6 @ 3:24
#2 molly's a bullet (8-1) 4yo
#6 bel pensiero (4-1) 5yo

full siblings !


half field was scratched including little sis and it wasn't off the turf..don't get it

3rd (4 horses) @ 4-1 ..well beaten
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horseshoe 11 @ 5:55
drf Indiana oaks .. grade 3
#4 top (5-1)

2nd @ 11-1 [$7.80] .. even money favorite wins and comes back a crazy good $35 exacta for $2


if i find or know of one's scheduled to run in stakes outside of the 5 tracks I'll post it



los alamitos 8 @ 7:54
#4 barbara t (20-1)
grade 2 stakes


out @ 20-1

realize it's easy to say after the fact but surprised they would put her in a spot like that considering how spaced out her 3 career races were .. very ambitious placement for her first relatively quick return



7/6 sunday (done) ******

ellis 8 @ 4:12
#11 grade a (30-1)

3rd @ 33-1 .. head 2nd ..length winner

4 horses between 5-2 and 7-2 and 2 of them made up the exacta ..keying those 4 in 1st and 2nd w/ GA in 3rd would cost $12 and tri paid $212


woodbine 5 @ 3:14 **
#7 human desire (20-1)

scratched


** if I happen to look at others outside of the core 5 I'll post them



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[JBEX]

just updated the final AM result

[JBEX]

1 play on sunday..added

[str]

realize it's easy to say after the fact but surprised they would put her in a spot like that considering how spaced out her 3 career races were .. very ambitious placement for her first relatively quick

.[/QUOTE]

Probably the most difficult part of training is not dreaming. If you stay realistic and leave the dreams to the owners, you can do well.
Trainers are human, so easier said than done but let the owners dream and the trainers train and build towards bettering the horses.
That was my philosophy and you would be blown away by some of the names of people that said that too me when I first started training and never stopped picking the winning trainers brains .
So many of them would end up saying that to me individually. It was incredible.

[JBEX]

realize it's easy to say after the fact but surprised they would put her in a spot like that considering how spaced out her 3 career races were .. very ambitious placement for her first relatively quick

.

Probably the most difficult part of training is not dreaming. If you stay realistic and leave the dreams to the owners, you can do well.
Trainers are human, so easier said than done but let the owners dream and the trainers train and build towards bettering the horses.
That was my philosophy and you would be blown away by some of the names of people that said that too me when I first started training and never stopped picking the winning trainers brains .
So many of them would end up saying that to me individually. It was incredible.


[/QUOTE]

yeah maybe they influenced the call ..nice n2x other than at del mar would seem to be a more logical spot with the added incentive it's nice to win there ..have to think they'd have at least one of those over the course of that meet

[JBEX]

added another ..outside of core 5 but if I happen to look and find I will post ..10959

[str]

Thanks STR! Steep ugly country ..right now it's a boat ride and a 2 hour hike to the bottom of the fire for the hotshot crews..... Boy I loved being on a" hotshot crew" couldn't wait for the adventure.... now I look at that and say " it's a young person's game" and do everything I can to watch out for their safety...... sounds off but.... I work at getting a dedicated "hoist helicopter" available for them. I order Paramedics to be inserted with the crews to provide "ALS" among other things... didn't mean to go "off topic".......

Must have missed this. That’s a huge responsibility Batt. Wow.
Good luck.

[JBEX]

posted results for the lone race (other scratched)

[str]

I need to honor today , the greatest female racehorse I ever saw. Ruffian was the horse that gave me the drive to become a trainer when she ran past me as I watched from the stand, down the backstretch at the 5/8ths pole at Monmouth Park in the Sapling Stakes, a huge race for 2 yr. Old fillies back then.
Her eyes, when I saw her run by about 40 feet away from me, were like nothing I had ever seen or have seen since. When I saw her run by, I decided that moment that I would try and become a trainer and learn what it was all about.
I mention it today because it was 50 years ago this afternoon that she took that bad step and broke down at Belmont Park.
I remember refilling the water buckets around 6 pm after watching that race on a small tv in the tack room . It was after dinner at Bowie for all 48 horses. i was by then the asst. trainer for Dick Dutrow.
I cried like a baby the whole time.
A year later I had just started training horses. Gotta say I owe it all to her and the intensity of the effort she gave a year earlier when I saw her.
I’ve never seen anything like that since.
Thank you Ruffian. You were the catalyst to me becoming a trainer.