We had two wins and a second today at Indiana Grand, which was great. HOOSIER ZIP ran a great race on the grass breaking his maiden for his owners Jack Danehy, Barry Ward, Terry Ward and Penny Lauer. We moved up in the trainer ranks to #90 Nationally with $1,180,000 in winnings. 32 wins total
WHISTLE STOP (a two year old homebred filly) won her second race today. This is our second two year old (the other being CAKE POP) with two wins. So far every two year old we have ran has hit the board.
We had a win and four seconds this week (one of which was in a stake at Saratoga and we got beat another dirty nose) which has put us over a million in earnings for the year and moved us to #97 on the leading trainers of North America list. We hope to stay in the top 100. We are up to 30 wins this year.
Last week we won one race with SUMMER LILLY in a maiden special at Indiana Grand. We also finished second in two stakes races beaten one by a very small head bob and the other one was at Thistledowns. CAKE POP ran in the Cleveland Kindergarten Stake getting beat by a nose on Saturday.
To start this week we thought we would run two at Saratoga today to get the week off to a great beginning. We are in $100,000 stake for 3 year olds going a mile on the grass with ROOFTOP VIEW and the other is ICED OVER coming off an 11 month lay off going 1 1/16th on the grass. (My daughters always told me I had a lot of patience.) I feel they will both run good.
I always said this game can be very rewarding and very frustrating. We ran a second and a third in the two Indiana stakes today. The girl end we chased an easy pace all the way around and never caught the leader and then got caught for second. Nobody went out with the leader and she got an easy pace. She had the one hole and got out for a quick lead and boom, race over.
In the boy division we got beat by the shortest nose possible without it being a dead heat. Even the track photographer followed us out like we had won, just to get kicked in the teeth when the photo was posted. The classic case when two horses are battling for the lead down the stretch and you finally get the lead to have the third horse come at you for another battle and get beat the smallest of noses. BADABING BADABOOM
However, we did go over a million in earnings for the year, which is good.
Tomorrow is another day.
Tomorrow is another big day for Indiana Racing. There are two $150,000 Stakes (one for colts and one for fillies) and we are well represented in both of them.
July was a good month. We won 10 races between Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. That puts us at 28 wins for the year and $960,000 in earnings. We definitely hope to go over the million tomorrow.
We did get as high as 104th on the leading trainer by earnings for the year. As of now we have fallen back to 112th, which is still very good.
We also had a third grandson born on July 22nd. We won a race that afternoon and he was born just before midnight to our oldest daughter Elizabeth and her husband Luke. They now have two sons and both baby Calvin and Elizabeth are doing well. So far, their 2 yr. old son Truman is a big fan of the new baby brother. We love the grandchildren!