After a miserable week 6, things went from bad to worse in week 7.\u00a0\u00a0 No BP\u2019s earned this week, in fact I actually lost a few thanks to the cost related to claiming horses.\u00a0 Just like having a losing football team where the coach needs to manipulate the roster around.<\/p>\n
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Results<\/b><\/p>\n
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As the 9\/5 favorite in a $5k claiming race, MARVELOUS MACHINE offered a lot of promise.\u00a0\u00a0 I pushed her onto the turf where she\u2019s done fairly well in the past and she shot out to the lead, which is her forte.\u00a0\u00a0 But I quickly became disappointed with jockey J Whaley her took her well out to the lead only to empty her tank by the stretch run and puttered across the line in fourth.\u00a0 No BP\u2019s either as she had to ship to the track.\u00a0 Added, she was claimed from me and only drew a G-card.<\/p>\n
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Next up was HALF TANKED who has already scored a win and second for me and took a nudge downward into a $10k claiming race.\u00a0 He ran well early, stalking the leaders from the third spot but when it came time to produce results,\u00a0 he faded back to lose by 7.\u00a0 Might need a rest but I\u2019m not in this challenge for resting horses.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to think this over as 6th<\/sup> place only gained a G-card.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When a horse has \u201cawesome\u201d in the name, you expect results.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SUPER AWESOME SONG was anything but awesome.\u00a0 In his second start for me, I dropped him into $7,500 claimers, the lowest level of his career.\u00a0\u00a0 He was a respected 4\/1 with betters looking to cash in on the claim drop but results were an embarrassing ninth.\u00a0 He\u2019ll be promoted to the auction block.\u00a0 No BP\u2019s and one G-card.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Stable Changes<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I opened up the wallet and sought to add to improve upon the diminishing results of this stable by making three claim bids.\u00a0 I lost two of these but did walk off with KID ALLIANCE who I think is probably the best of the three.\u00a0 This 5-year old earned his fifth win this week in a $5k claimer going 7 furlongs with a 96 speed.\u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s been running 90+ speeds since November and even hit 100 a pair of times.\u00a0 He\u2019s eligible for lower starter allowance races and that will probably be my target for him, although a short field allowance race or even a high-end claimer can\u2019t be ruled out.\u00a0 He\u2019s active in the stable and will run in a few weeks, filling the spot of claimed Marvelous Machine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With Super Awesome Song going into auctions, another vacancy is in the stable.\u00a0 The F & G-card mixed bred CARD PLAY is going into that slot with hopes some of our cards can earn some BP\u2019s.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Totals<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n SIRE CARDS:<\/p>\n Picked up a total of 3 G-cards this week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TOTAL CARDS:<\/p>\n 16-G\u2019s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BP\u2019s:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No BP\u2019s earned this week but I did spend 10 when claiming Kid Alliance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Total for this challenge is now at 102.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a miserable week 6, things went from bad to worse in week 7.\u00a0\u00a0 No BP\u2019s earned this week, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-31650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-1000-bp-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31652,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions\/31652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}