For the next few weeks I will be reflecting on the 2009 season, a year that will go down as "Year of the Female". Once a week I will posts featuring that I loved and/or saw in person. Most of them will be Thoroughbred races, however I may throw in an Arabian race or two. And why not start it off with one of my all time favorite fillies Unbridled Belle, and her Obeah S. win.
Unbridled Belle who is by Broken Vow won the 2007 Delaware Handicap and Beldame, she came back to win the 2008 Obeah, but that was her last win until June 20 of this year. On a sloppy track which she normally hates, but on a course that she loves she was able to defend her Obeah crown. Here is video of it, however I should warn people that there was a breakdown of All Smiles in the race at the end of the video, sadly I found out about a month ago that she was euthanized from surgery complications
Unbridled Belle who is by Broken Vow won the 2007 Delaware Handicap and Beldame, she came back to win the 2008 Obeah, but that was her last win until June 20 of this year. On a sloppy track which she normally hates, but on a course that she loves she was able to defend her Obeah crown. Here is video of it, however I should warn people that there was a breakdown of All Smiles in the race at the end of the video, sadly I found out about a month ago that she was euthanized from surgery complications
Unbridled Belle and the runner up Morena went on to finish 3rd and 4th respectivly behind Swift Temper and Icon Project. Those four would meet again in the Personal Ensign. Where Icon Project would win, Swift Temper second, Morena third and unfortnally Unbridled Belle last. However, Belle rebounded to win the Turnback the Alarm at Aqueduct and will wrap up her career on Thursdsay in the Falls City at Churchill Downs. She is expected to go to Medaglia d'Oro, and will be sold at next year's Keenland November Breeding Stock auction.
I'm not sure if you have seen it yet, but I've quietly released a new blog called Pedigree Stock, this replaces The Breeding Side. I wasn't really happy with how TBS was going, and Pedigree Stock is a much better sounding name. It gets updated at least twice a week with new content, right now I'm focusing on who I think would be good suitors for the recently retired Zenyatta. I hope that you go ahead and check it out. As for future plans, those right now are up in the air. I do have a few things up my sleeve, but those will not be announced until next month when I'm further along in the process.
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