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It was always in the diary for Maggie, the girls and I to go back to England to spend time with family. On arrival we were greeted by glorious English summer weather, but sadly it only lasted a couple of days before the heavens opened and Ascot was reduced to soft ground. The weather, however, […]
May is always a wonderful time for us in New York because we really get our teeth into the guts of the Belmont meet, which is my favourite meet of the year. Grace and I got dressed up for the Belmont Stakes this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed a phenomenal afternoon of racing together. The […]
April was a productive month, a busy month, a tiring month. There was plenty of travel as well as getting the horses back in from New Orleans and the farms, but it was a good end to the Fair Grounds meet and month. May has begun to show signs of spring returning as we get […]
I ended the last blog with a note that I would start this blog off with Harvey Wallbanger’s win at the end of February, so that is what I’m going to do. A five-year-old by Congrats, Harvey was victorious first off the claim at the Fair Grounds in an Allowance Other Than going 1 1/8 […]
It’s not just in New York that we’ve been dealing with strange weather this year as we’ve seen Oaklawn have two feet of snow and have to cancel their Southwest card twice, and even as far south as Louisiana has had frost delay training and present problems for turf runners. The whiteout in New York […]
We signed off 2020 in really solid fashion and nothing gave me more pleasure than being able to sit at home with my family to watch a couple of our horses run really well. On December 18, Flashing Red took another step forward off the claim. This is a filly we claimed for $20,000 at […]
With turf season coming to an end in New York, we moved 10 horses down to Fair Grounds Race Course and are set for a relatively busy December. I was very pleased to see Joqular run first time on the turf down here on December 5; she ran an excellent third in an Allowance race. […]
Despite the inclement weather and several races coming off the turf, October was a productive month with our horses running strong through the Belmont meet. It was very pleasing to see Joqular, a filly we claimed in Saratoga, break her maiden by 6 ½ lengths first off the claim in a race that came off […]
First of all, I want to congratulate both major sales companies, Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland, for providing extremely safe environments for buyers at their sales in Lexington last month. The health protocols in place and the fact that only buyers were allowed onto the sales grounds made for a dramatically smaller crowd and really put safety […]
While the meet at Saratoga had started off relatively in good form with the horses running well, it was beginning to get a little frustrating not to get off the mark. Once again Xanthique proved to be an incredibly versatile and very, very talented filly as she won on August 13 at Saratoga. She’s a […]