We ended May with a bang winning 4 races in the last half. PUPPYONASTRING (maiden)(Bone Doctors Stable), RUNNIN AWAY (maiden)(Jerry Merritt, Penny Lauer), POINT AFTER (maiden)(owners Charles Parks, Korus Derby Club, Penny Lauer) at Indiana Grand and ICED OVER (AOT) at Belmont Park. We started out well for June breaking another maiden running on the Turf with BOURBON N LIME (Michael Johnson, Dana Smith, Penny Lauer) at Indiana Grand and JOINT TENANT (Penny Lauer) at Churchill Downs which takes him over $200,000 in lifetime earnings. Hopefully the trend will continue if we can get more races to fill.
Let us talk the Belmont race tomorrow. It is an absolutely great card to bet on top to bottom. In the race itself I see it as American Pharoah’s race to lose. I think he will win and Muvtaahij will run second. This is the exacta, and one of Pletchers will hold on for third to complete the trifecta. I think American Pharoah will push Materiality out in the first turn a little bit and they will kind of gallop together until about 3/4ths of the race when American Pharoah will just gallop on. Muvtaahij will clean up for second. I do think it is a shame that Belmont cut the attendance off at 90,000. We can’t get fans and now they want to tell them they can not come. They are never equipped or staffed for it even if they only had 50,000. Since they don’t have off track betting anymore in Manhatten, I guess you bet on the computer and watch it on TV.
Have a nice day and may the horse be with you tomorrow.
We attended the Indiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association awards dinner over the weekend as we had four horses that had been nominated. We came home with two awards. One was for DREAMIN’ BIG who won the 2013 Champion Older Mare Indiana Bred for the second year in a row. The other was for JOINT TENANT who won the 2013 Champion 3 Year Old Indiana Colt Sired division. Earlier in 2013 we were honored as the 2012 Indiana Breeder of the Year , which is the third trophy in this photo.