First off is Notonthesamepage and Break Water Edison, both who did not do well in yesterday's FOY will be taking some time off and heading to sprints. The following is from Bloodhorse.com, the reason why I'm not posting a link, because the first half of the article has nothing to do with these two horses.
Eli Gindi’s Break Water Edison was scheduled for X-rays, a head-to-toe
once-over, and likely a
nuclear scan as trainer John Kimmel seeks to explain
why the 3-year-old son of Lemon Drop Kid had to be pulled up in the stretch
of the Fountain of Youth Stakes. The winner of the Nashua Stakes (gr. III) at
Aqueduct Nov. 3 has now finished last in his two stakes attempts at
Gulfstream Park, and the way he ran Feb. 28 under jockey Eibar Coa has Kimmel, a
licensed
veterinarian, concerned about what the tests will find.
“Eibar
said he seemed to put himself in a great position until they got into the turn,”
said Kimmel. “He switched his lead and immediately took himself off the bridle
and kept
switching back so that Eibar thought he hurt himself. He tried to
protect the
horse and the horse seemed pretty willing to pull himself up.“We
don’t know
yet, but if these X-rays don’t show anything, I have a feeling
the nuclear scan
will. A lot of times the X-rays will come back clean, but
the scintigraphy will
light up bruises on the cannon bone. I hope that’s not
the case, because that’s
60-90 days right there, and that would pretty much
wipe out his season.”
Scintigraphy is a diagnostic test in which a
two-dimensional picture
of a body-radiation source is obtained through the
use of radioisotopes.
Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Spectacular Bid Stakes winner
Notonthesamepage
suffered pulmonary bleeding during the Fountain of Youth
and will be sent to a
hyperbaric chamber and pointed to shorter races in the
future. “He bled
pretty bad,” said trainer Wesley Ward. “It’s something
we’ve been fighting with
him and it came out again yesterday. It’s
unfortunate, but I think we’ve got the
makings of a pretty good miler.
That’s where we will look from
here.” Notonthesamepage was an impressive
front-running winner of the
Spectacular Bid Jan. 3. With a fast pace
expected in the Fountain of
Youth, Ken Ramsey, Ward, and jockey Elvis
Trujillo decided to experiment with
taking back off the pace. Ramsey now
regrets that call. “I told them let’s
see if he can take back, but it now
looks like that put stress on him,” Ramsey
said. “We’ve studied why horses
bleed like this and it’s always the stress. We
thought maybe we could take
him back and send him a signal when it was time to
go, but instead it just
stressed him out. It was bad timing.”
Also off the trail for the TC is last year's BC Juvi winner, Midshipman. This is not good news for Godolphin who bought him from the McNairs when Darley bought Stonerside last year. They do have a good shot with Desert Party, but he's going have to run the race of his life to beat the four year olds in the UAE Derby and then come back home to run in the KY Derby. Link to the Midshipman article. BTW this means that Street Sense will remain the only Juvi/Derby winner, until at least next year.
Now to weekend recaps.
I'm going ahead and skipping the claiming race as Arcata finished second to last :(, one finished fourth and the other scratched. So total for this race is $0.
Styime: Barrier Reef was the only one who hit the board with him winning. Researcher and Barcola did okay, but I'm really pleased with Mateca who finished fourth in his first try in open company. Chart
Fountian of Youth: I had Capt. Candyman Can, Theregoesjojo and Beethoven. Well Quality Road suprised me with a very impressive win. Jojo and Beethoven got second and third respectvlly and Capt. was fourth. Chart
Sham Stakes: I had The Pamplemousse, Take the Points, Mr. Hot Stuff. Can I just say that I rock! I had the top three in order! Nice job by all three of them. Chart
I will have an updated earnings probley tomarrow, as it's supposed to snow here, and well I won't have anything to do.
Before I wrap up this post. There is one other race I would like to share with you. Yesterday at Oaklawn was the Mountian Valley Stakes. It's a six furlong sprint for 3yo's, and is best known for Afleet Alex's 3yo debut (this was before his poor Rebel (In which Jeremy Rose was not riding him for the only time in his life) and amazing AR Derby). Well a horse very near and dear to my heart, Citizen won the race as the longest shot on the board. How much did he pay? $60.00! I've been following him since his debut, he's a former Stonerside horse who is by City Zip out of Rachel's Star (hence I put him in my stable, since well my name is Rachel :P). Here's the chart.
New top 5 coming tomarrow night.
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