1,000 BP Challenge…A Rough Week

A tough week at the raceway with two horses failing to bring any BP’s and ironically both were claimed from the stable. Rough time trying to refill the farm with the now open spots by claiming and auction route.

RACERS
I misplaced Taffy’s Refraction this week. She was entered into a start allowance which was fine but I need to pay closer attention to the distance. She likes to run late and the 4.5 furlongs was too short. She closed extremely well and was nice to see at 2/5 odds. She finished second missing by about ½ length. Closer to 7 furlongs looks to be best for her. Still can’t complain with 10 BP’s being collected.

After being beat in a starter allowance by a head, I placed Jeez Gosh Golly into a sprint $3,500 claiming race. The field turned out to be a tiny 4-horse field and this mare went to the lead once again. She got blown away in the second half of the race and finished fourth. No BP’s this week and she was claimed from me, creating another open hole in the stable.

I lost a third one in a claiming race. Chagnet was a horse picked up out of the auction who had been racing over his head in the allowance level. I put him into a $5k claiming race and cut him to a 7f sprint off of a 10.5k disaster. Disaster followed as he finished 10th in the 13 horse field. Makes two that were claimed from me.

CLAIMERS & AUCTIONS
Took a shot at claiming Sister Wells , a 3-year old gal out of Wilburn. She looks well suited for claimers and has been first or second each time competing at this level. But I was not the winner on the claim as three others made bids.

Another failed try with pursuing Easton, a productive Jump Start runner who likes the claiming level and seems to be finding some footing on the turf. Five others bid against me.

But I did win Xureyev, a young 3 year old filly sired by Xaar who is a maiden and in 16 races has finished second 6 times. She looks a bit battered with a lot of races as a 2-year old but shows nice late run ability. A little rest may help her break that maiden. Net cost was $2,000 and 4 BP’s.

Just Another Ghost had 11 claims for it, one of them my own. A Corinthian bred colt who picked up his 5th career win this week as a 3-year old and was picked up by another person, so another one got away from me.

Also made a handful of bids on horses in the auction but was outbid and decided not to chase after them at higher prices.

STABLE CHANGES
Tomcat Crime was put into the auction after racing last week and I netted a big $1 in proceeds.

Lope De Cacique has been transferred out of the farm into the stable and will be training to run with a focus on the claiming ranks.

SUMMARY
A very sluggish week with earnings of 10 BP’s this week and spending of 4 BP’s in claimers. Net gain of 6 which moves the yearly total to 319. The bank roll is at $173,000 with a racing record of 6-6-2 with 21 starts.

Currently have one opening in the stable and one horse in the farm that will be there resting for a couple of weeks. Looks like I got some work to do in filling in some slots. I like to keep three in the farm as I expect turnover with the stable, so …..stay tuned.