Monthly Archives: November 2014

Racing and Football!!!!

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Good college football game today. It starts out with Michigan at Ohio State. My Michigan Alumni Friend says this is the coaches last game for Michigan. He will be fired right after the first of the year (do to how the contract was written). Michigan has been on a downward spiral since they ran Lloyd Gardner out who only won like 80% of his games. Now they are going to be looking for a coach but it doesn’t really matter as they are now the #2 team in the state as Michigan State has leap frogged them. You know its cold up there to start with. Maybe they can switch coaches with Notre Dame as he looks like he could be unemployed by Christmas too.

U of L and Kentucky. Big game in Louisville. They want to move up the bowl poll. Louisville should win.

Florida and Florida State. Everyone wants Florida State to lose, including me. You have to root for Florida. (another coach who is already out of a job)

Big night game, Auburn vs. Alabama. Alabama will get revenge from last year.

IU vs. Purdue and a match of who can get the fourth win of the year.

Notre Dame vs. Southern Cal

Mississippi State at Mississippi . Mississippi State will win.

Wisconsin will beat Minnesota and be the Big 10 West winner. Then will meet Ohio State next week in Indianapolis.

Oregon will beat Oregon State

Good racing today as well. Churchill and New York have big programs and California Chrome runs in California on the grass today.

 

 

 

Churchill Cancelled for a second day

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The Churchill Meet is 2/3rds over and has come to an abrupt halt due to the cold temperature’s and snow we have gotten this year. They have cancelled the card two days in a row. The last time they cancelled a day in the fall meet was in 1986. They did cancel a couple of spring days in 2011 when tornado’s came through.

They are suppose to add extra races each day to make up for the lost two days (hopefully we won’t lose anymore). Thanksgiving has always been a giant day at Churchill as well as Friday and Saturday.

Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas will open six weeks after Churchill’s meet closes with the bottom purse for $5000 claimers being $18,000 and purses up to $62,000 for maiden special.

Still time to claim one at Churchill to run at Oaklawn this winter.

 

 

 

Football!

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The two big college games this week seem to be America’s team THE OHIO STATE at MICHIGAN STATE tomorrow night and TCU(seems to be the best team in Texas)  and KANSAS STATE tomorrow night. These two games seem to be the best in the country and we hope they live up to their hype.

Mister Pollard wins The Too Much Coffee Stake

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It was a big day for the stable on November 1, Breeder’s Cup Day. The classy little colt MISTER POLLARD won the $150,000 Too Much Coffee Stake beating older horses for his owners W. Scott Farrar, Jim Farrar, Falcon Racing and Penny Lauer. He has an amazing attitude. Doesn’t get excited, just handles himself with class all the way around with everything he does.

It was an exciting race and finish. If you didn’t see it live last Saturday, you should go watch the replay.  Falcon Racing and their guests were so sure of his victory when he crossed the finish line. Even though they were standing about 20 yards before the finish line. There was no question in their mind that Mister Pollard was the winner. That was great, but I watched the last step on the TV and I wasn’t quite as convinced as they were. One thing the actual wire is about 4 foot past the center of the finish line post, and the way a fan would stand is not the angle that the wire is. It can be quite deceiving. Results of head bobs is one of the reasons I no longer have a full head of hair.

I did get encouragement when the track video was following Mister Pollard after the finish of the race, since he has a wall of screens viewing the race in the control room. He is usually right in those close calls. It didn’t give me encouragement when all the horses came back and the only two left was us and the four horse, which told me the jock on the four horse was not conceding.
But the Falcon Racing party was still jumping and hugging. They were 100% convinced. And after what seemed like eternity, Falcon Racing was right, which was truly outstanding. To say the horse ran a great race would be an understatement. He had the lead, lost the lead, came back and got the money. The competitive spirit of the horse has always amazed me in that situation.
Rafael Hernandez did a great job of riding the horse. He had breezed the horse the Sunday before, which is another credit to the colt. He won three of these Indiana Bred stakes this year with three different riders. Ricardo Santana, Juan Saez and now Rafael Hernandez. It wasn’t my choice to do that, it was just the circumstances played out that way. Ricardo Santana was riding in the Breeders Cup and Juan Saez lost his life in a tragic accident a few weeks ago. Mister Pollard was the last winner he rode at Indiana Grand on October 4th prior to his accident. Juan was the leading apprentice rider at Indiana Grand this year and they have named the award after him in his memory.
Mister Pollard had nine starts this year, three wins, two seconds and won $246,603 for 2014, which takes his lifetime earnings to $375,151.
As of right now he is the leading Indiana Bred money winning horse of 2014.