Injuires, retirement and Mine That Bird

First off, G1 winner Mi Sueno's career is could be over before it really got started. Lets hope that this daughter of Madcap Escapade (who I was a huge fan of when she was running), makes a full recovery. Mi Sueno won the Darley (formally the Del Mar) Debutante last time out. Also on the front page of RockportHarbor.com, you can read that Winslow Homer will not be in the Champagine next week after devoloping a quarter crack.

One horse who won't make a return from injury is Better Talk Now, who will call it a career at age 10. I will admit, that while I was a fan of his, there where times where I rooted against him. One of those was in the 2004 Breeder's Cup Turf where he upset one of my all time favorite turf horses Kitten's Joy, "Blackie" as he was affectionaly called was set to wrap up his career in Saturday's Turf Classic, when this injury came up. No word on weather he's going to stay at Fair Hill or go to a farm (i.e. Kentucky Horse Park, Old Friends ect.). Here is one of my favorite wins of his the 2007 Manhattan Handicap where he beat that year's Breeder's Cup Turf champ English Channel and the late Shakis.



Finally, Mine That Bird had a workout this morning with Joe Talamo in the saddle. Calvin Borel is still named to ride him in the Goodwood. Speaking about Joe, he was on Conan O'Brian last night. I didn't see it except from a clip, and I'll be honest. I shut it off, as frankly Conan annoys me big time (I'll take his predasor Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel over him any time). With that being said, hopefully this puts some interest back into horse racing. Interesting enough this was the second time in 5 months that a jockey had been on the Tonight Show. Calvin was on shortly after his Derby win this past May. Here is Joe's interview:



I couldn't find a vid of Calvin' interview with Jay, if anyone can find it I'll be very greatful. Also you'll be seeing a new little feature at the bottom. This makes it easier for people who would like to retweet my post. Mary Forney uses this feature for her blog posts.