Barbaro Updates: 295
updates are now here.
Update 1976: Sean Clancy provides some perspective re: the decision not to run Street Sense in the Belmont. I agree with his analysis (and he writes it much better than I would) but I would replace Sun King's name with The Tin Man: Good for the Game.
Update 1975: I just spent another nice afternoon with Mike Rea at Freedom Hills. I really do think the riding is helping him, he is also enjoying it very much. He looks good on a horse ... not too much has changed there. Anyway, he walked and jogged around the riding ring. I neglected to mention this morning we had a barn visitor, Victor Molina stopped by. He was in great form after his win on Red Aspen. He is pretty excited about her I think.
Update 1974: Chestnut Hill College is having a reunion tomorrow. As part of that event (3:30 - 4:40 pm), Mrs. Jackson and Pat Chapman will be talking about Barbaro and Smarty Jones. This is open to the public, if interested please e-mail mgalball@chc.edu. This event is not at capacity, but may fill quickly.
Update 1973: Street Sense is to skip the Belmont and point to the Travers at Saratoga, with a possible prep race along the way: Street Sense to skip Belmont.
Update 1972: A little warmer at Fair Hill this morning, looks like we will hit 90 degrees. As Tim noted, we have four months of this! I had four to ride today. First out was Gator Nation. We went to the Tapeta track along with Tim on Grandma. We galloped a mile and a quarter, me leading the way with Grandma tucked in just behind. Gator was a little kean, but not overly so. Certainly having a horse just behind him sparked him up a little. Penny came out with us on Luke to observe the training. A good start to the morning. Next out was Nonpariel, her first outing since her nice debut at Fair Hill races on saturday. She jogged / hacked around the fields. She went very well, no steering issues there Carl (Fair Hill joke). My next for Tim was Nautical Agent, we went to the Tapeta track with Tim on Mediman. As we were walking down the hill towards the tunnel two Canada Geese and five goslings were high tailing it down from the dirt track to cross the horsepath in front of us to get to the pond. It was funny to watch, geese are not well designed for fast walking! On the track we galloped a mile and a half, again me leading the way with Mediman sat right behind us. They both went well. Of course Nautical Agent then high-stepped it all the way home. My final set was Linda's Pistol. He went to the Tapeta track to gallop a mile and a quarter. I saw Mark Shuman as I was coming onto the track. He reported Xchanger is not going to the Ohio Derby this weekend. Pistol galloped nicely, although again I was riding long ... no styling it for me!
You may notice the top right of this page now has a header "Support This Site". From time-to-time people have offered a means to support the site. It is not necessary as long as good horse-welfare things continue to happen. That being said Fair Hill people (friends) are often doing good things and looking for support. I will highlight them there.
No movement yet today for the Barbaro picture on eBay, still $14,200.
Update 1971: Bidding ends tomorrow for the Barbaro painting on eBay, proceeds to the NTRA's Barbaro Fund. The current high bid is $14,200, with 30 bids. Those at Delaware Park's Barbaro celebration and those not but interested, you can purchase a DVD of the event, proceeds to support New Bolton's Fund for Laminitis Research. Both these fundraisers and others are at: Fundraisers.
Sedgefield, who was being considered for the Belmont, worked on monday and is now out: Injury knocks Sedgefield out of Belmont Stakes.
Plans are being made for The Tin Man's next start: Could Gold Cup Be On Tap for The Tin Man?, excerpt:
"The Tin Man came back real good," said Mandella. "I'm tempted to run him in the Hollywood Gold Cup, as well as he has trained on the synthetic here, but most likely will run him in the American (gr. IIT) here and then go back to the Arlington Million (gr. IT) like last year."
The $250,000 American Handicap at 1 1/8 miles on turf is scheduled on the Gold Cup undercard. The Tin Man won both the American and the 1 1/4-mile Arlington Million last year to begin his current four-race winning streak.
Good morning-
TO EVERYONE WORKING ON ANTI SLAUGHTER...
Please stay focused on our calling instructions!
We need 60 senate co-sponsors (33 more) to get S311 to a vote. This is by far the most direct path to our goal of permanently ending horse slaughter in the U.S.
Getting senate co-sponsors should be our top priority at the moment.
Thanks to you all and please join your state group!
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Posted by: Christian at May 31, 2007 11:21 AM