#148

#148--Tee Pee Minister pictured Friday 11/30/13 ready to go to work.  Left click on the image to enlarge and see the wound on the left front just above the hoof.  This is now officially scabbed over, and Tee Pee's training therefore recommenced this date.  Below is Tee Pee on Sept. 5, 2012 just after purchase in Opelousas, La.

Tee Pee has grown a little.  16' 1" hands on 9/5/12 and 17'1" in racing plates measured today.  He's big. (may the good lord please keep Tee Pee from getting any taller, although Zenyatta measured 17'2" hands.)

And--who is to get on this monster for our stable except yours truly pictured below on my Goovin' wind:
It was hardly, at the Louisiana Sale, that I was expecting to buy a 17'1" horse to be galloping around in open pasture.  And now, this is what we have, and hence the subject of how to safely fall off a horse of this height.  The "you will fall" intro I had to horse racing back in 1985, next post.

Training:Well--that's the good news with #148.  Had his first pasture run since last Sat. and continues to look impressively athletic.  #17 has been regularly tacked, and believe we'll be reporting commencement of serious training in the next couple of weeks with him. For my friend from Oregon who emailed yesterday--our current plans are to have the horses ready to race in Des Moines by early May 2014.