It's October, and for my stable that means that our yearlings' initial breaking and training has begun. That includes this VA-bred son of HIGHLY MOTIVATED out of the fast BLAME mare PERDONA. Anybody have a name suggestion?

My trainer! A good dude.

Friday morning feeding. Each one of them eats at a different speed. My daily challenge is to prevent cat fights as the quick eaters seek to nose out the slow eaters from their bowls. And on the table because Hazel would run everyone out of their bowls if set on the ground.

Ooof! Not much good happens when your horse hops the start and first stride is backwards. ☹️

A beautiful day for a race at Presque Isle, and the 7th will be a race 3 years in the planning as homebred CLEARLY INISH goes in a 2 turn MSW on the AW track. Her dam won 2 turn stakes on the Woodbine AW and I targeted this as soon as my filly was born. We'll see. Tough field.

Oscar was literally born in a garbage can. A great cat who scouted outsideuntil one night in midwinter he disappeared for 2 months. I thought him dead until one night he returned in the snow - bones. He never wanted to spend a night outside ever again. He lived to 15. 2017 pic.

Wow! People are horrible! I’ve found people reposting the GoFundMe for Carol Cedeno with links to WhatsApp donations, etc. THERE IS NO OTHER DONATION METHOD SET UP FOR CAROL. GoFundMe is the only and the official! This is the official link:

Belinda Stronach is a terminal cancer on horse racing. The sooner she is booted out of the industry, the better. Maryland showed how it can be done.

After his efforts at courtship, Hazel the Chessie and her boyfriend Bennie the Cat are a regular couple nowadays. Most mornings I wake up and spy them laying together in the dog bed that's next to my own bed.

In retaliation for Europe winning the Ryder Cup the US is sending the Cleveland Browns to London.

I saw him in person winning in August last out in a G1 in Berlin. Gets this one substantially easier than he did in Germany. Having only 4 opponents definitely helped this time. I hate short field graded stakes, but it is what it is.

Our VA-homebred 2025 filly by BLOFELD our of MOUNTAINEER CAT (Even the Score) is an exceptional foal. God willing, in just about a year from now she'll enter initial training for us. Mama was an accomplished runner, is such a good mother, and throws really nice babies.

This isn't an airport. No need to announce your departure. The fact that he lost $$$$$$$ trying to promote Runhappy as a stallion and to find a successor has nothing to do with this either. No ma'am. 😉

So much truth here. Whatever problems all of us have, and I know some are really struggling - we have many small blessings worth celebrating every day. A sunrise, a smiling baby, a tasty sandwich. Give thanks, put one foot in front of the other, and move forward in thanks.

The chart says our boy "lacked a solid bid," but what it doesn't say is that he also lacked two front horseshoes! Lost them during the race but still battled on and continued to a 6th of 8 finish against open company for his first race. No antics, gave us something to build on.

In 2021 I claimed 4x winner DULCE DE LECHE (Disco Rico) w/intention to mate her to WEIGELIA, a cross that has produced many PA stakes winners. Friday we see how my experiment works, as our 2yo colt PATERNO debuts in an MSW at Presque. We've done what we could, now it's up to him

A wonderful thing.

Happy Columbo Day to all those who celebrate. It is also my reminder to you that there is a statue of Columbo and his dog in Budapest because of course there is.

Barn besties

VAN HOOK (left) was a homebred of ours that raced 15 times and won twice. While her racing talent was modest, she was always a kind and willing racehorse. She was recently an adoptee highlighted by Aftercare Charles Town, through which we retired her earlier this year. #OTTB