Sun Misc.

Catch up this blog after a week of distractions. Plecher has turned Quality Road into one of his stall babies. There's little left of the Jimmie Jerkens QR with muscles out of the ears(shown at left).

The optimal proportions for the horse are still there, and we could predict QR would run away from the Woodward Field solely due weight carrying. None of the field except QR previously carried anywhere near 126 lbs. Combined with the size of QR and that horses this big are unaffected by weights in their running, this was as close to a walkover race as it gets merely due to weights although there were other reasons. The justifiable second choice Convocation, a little fellow that would be much affected by 126 lbs slowed his long stretch run due to the impost.

So, the Twin Spires account goes up $.70 with $2 win-show bets on QR. Interesting to confine betting to sure things as I've done recently. About 7 winning tickets in a row now and the account is up from $12 to $17.00 within a month.

Training:

Sat. 9/4: 2 miles riderless slow + mile of trot-walk. This was aborted. Horse had something caught in his throat.

Fri. 9/3: light mud. 5 x 2f all out riderless. Nice work + 1 mile walk under tack.

Thurs. 9/2. Second off day due to mud.

Wed. 9/1 Normal off day. 2 inches of rain.

Tues. 8/31: Anticipating the rain we do our fast riderless work but just fun stuff for the horses. They're into it and we get maybe the best riderless to date--6 x 2f with warm ups and warm downs all out.

Mon. 8/30: 2 miles riderless slow + 1 mile trot-gallop slow. Horse is doing better.