College football started this weekend and the pro’s start next week. Saratoga and Ellis Park meets close on labor day and Churchill will open on Friday night for the 12 days of September. Kentucky Downs will open on Saturday for it’s five day meet and the Keeneland Yearling Sale opens on Monday, September 8th. Roughly 3500 horses to be sold at auction where I am sure we can find one just for you.
The Blood-Horse published an article online about Mister Pollard’s win – check it out here!
We had a very good day today beginning with our oldest daughter Elizabeth celebrating her 27th birthday.
Indiana Grand had four Indiana Bred Stakes today and we had a win, a third, a fourth and a fifth as well as a couple of no where’s. The big winner of the day was homebred MISTER POLLARD who won the $150,000 Governor’s Stakes for owners Falcon Racing Stable (Michael Johnson Tony Medley) Scott and Jim Farrar (all of whom bought into the colt as an unraced Two Year Old) and Penny Lauer. This puts his lifetime earnings up near a quarter of a million dollars. We also ran 4th in this same race with another homebred named AFT. We happened to win the Governor’s Stakes race last year with JOINT TENANT.
DREAMIN BIG ran third today. She ran a good race and went over $550,000 in earnings today as her career winds down.
We got our first quote in the Saratoga Special, which is a daily tabloid that is put out in Saratoga everyday after our big win with ICED OVER. Here is the quote….and the link http://thisishorseracing.com/news/PDF/2014special/08-05-14.pdf
• A morning shoe change helped Iced Over get
over the turf and win Monday’s fourth race, a New
York-bred maiden going 1 1/8 miles.
The race came just after an afternoon downpour,
and went to the hard-charging Iced Over, who held
off a late rally from long shot first-time starter Talladega
to win by a half-length. Manuel Franco rode
the winner, a son of Utopia and the Pine Bluff mare
Glimmer Ice. Owner, trainer and co-breeder Michael
Lauer said his horse was battling a quarter crack.
“He is still growing out of it,” Lauer said. “We
are soaking it and we just put a bar shoe on it and
we three-quartered it today.”
Although the shoe did not slow down the colt’s
training much, the injury did slow down his season
as he made his first start since finishing third at
Churchill Downs in June.
“There was a race two weeks ago and we weren’t
ready to run so, we had to wait our turn,” said Lauer,
“He’s kind of been a hard luck horse but he ran
a big race today.”
– Katie Brus
The stable is just under $600,000 in earnings and my trainer stats have moved me from the 300’s to 230 nationwide.
Looking to move forward as we have four more horses running in the next two days.
As we said earlier, we took three horses to Saratoga and ran the last of the three today winning a Maiden Special New York Bred 3 and up going a mile and 1/8th on the Turf with the purse being $73,000. We sent the horse up there to Belmont the end of June and he walked off the truck with a fever, so his original race had to be scratched. Here we are six weeks later. The purse was more because it was Saratoga and we got the win! It was threatening to rain all morning and showered lightly right before the race. ICED OVER is a 3 yr. old NY homebred colt by Utopia out of the mare Glimmer Ice by Pine Bluff. He paid $9.00 and I thought he would pay more than that, but he dropped from 9/2 to 7/2 in the last minute. That takes a fair amount of money to do at Saratoga. This has been our first time back at Saratoga in seven years.
Last night I went to one of my favorite restaurants, a place called Winslow’s. It is about six miles north of town on Rt. 9. Great food. Moderately priced. Cash only.
Now, back to Indiana where we hope to have a big week as there are four stakes races Wednesday. We are in all of them.