Friday, January 30, 2009
Day 30
Ever get the idea I am consumed by weather? It snowed again last night cancelling my trip to Turfway to work the fillies. The situation at the farm has gone from bad to worse as Mercer county has no water service meaning the 22 horses at BEC have no water. We melted snow yesterday to give them water but need a better solution to that problem. There is no training at CDT naturally and we will be doing more in-barn jogging. If they decide to run races inside barns in the near future we will have a powerhouse stable. Hopefully I can get some works in at Turfway tomorrow morning and hopefully Rampillion gets in the race I entered her in unlike Carl S. and Inki Blandford who remain on the sidelines. Thats a lot of hopefullys.
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Hi chuck, I some how surfed upon your blog while researching horse ownership. your blog really goy my attention since i always wondered what a trainers life is like. I am a huge racing fan.
ReplyDeleteI was bitten by the bug when i was a young kid.
My Grandparents lived 2 blocks from Aqueduct and my Uncle worked at the track as an exercise rider. He actually rode about 70 races as an apprentice jockey when he was 16-17 yrs old this is in the late 70's-early 80's but he eventually got to big to race. He mostly worked for Jimmy Toner. He eventually left the track and for the last 25 years he has been working as a bridge painter here in NY and i followed in his footsteps for the last 20 yrs(im only 6 yrs younger than him) We always talk about racing and we are eventually going to buy a horse and possibly start a partnership amongst family and friends.
i go down to Gulfstream every winter.(love gulfstream)
And i have to agree 100% there isnt any supertrainers. i know you might have to bight your tongue a little bit but i dont have too. i remember being at gulfstream around 4-5 years ago and Mott&Bailey combo were winning everything im not saying Bailey had anything to do with the doping part, but Mott was claiming and winning at a ridicules rate. I mean talk about trying to insult our intelligence!!! he would claim horses that showed poor past performance and win first time off the claim.. and another that comes on the top of my list is Todd Pletcher!! these are just 2 of many!!!
Just like the homeruns fell off in baseball over the last 2 years. hopefully we will see these "supertrainers" Win % rate drop now that some feathers have ruffled.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know i look forward to reading your blog for the whole year.
Tim, Glen Cove, NY