After a lot of races the last two weeks, this week and next are scaled back to only three. I had once good result of the three this week and hope next week will be even better.<\/p>\n
Results<\/strong><\/p>\n Kicking things off this week was a sire card bred filly named DESPERATE MEASURE who made her first career start. At 13\/1 in a small five horse field she did well, keeping within a length of the leader for most of the 8.25 furlong race. She couldn\u2019t keep up in the final quarter but was second best in the field and pulled in 40 BP\u2019s along with a G-card.<\/p>\n A 92 speed is pretty good and that\u2019s what KID ALLIANCE touted this week. He finished fourth in a starter allowance race and got nicked of any BP\u2019s due to traveling costs. I try to keep these horses region bound but when they are up to run I do pursue the opportunity to go for those BP gems. Did not work this time and a lowly G-card came out of the deck.<\/p>\n CJ\u2019S MR. AWESOME is one I thought would be claimed away from me as he has one of those Hot Race badges. I claimed him for $10k and tried to keep him within the region and he actually got dropped down to $5k in the 7.5 furlong dirt race. He ran off the lead early on but could not muster any late run and finished 6th. The speed of 83 wasn\u2019t that great. For now, I\u2019m going to sideline him at the farm and see if any rest will help. But it won\u2019t be until near the end of the challenge that I may use him again. A good ol\u2019 G-card.<\/p>\n Stable Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n MUSICALL RIDE has been brought up from the minor leagues (farm) and will replace CJ\u2019s Mr. Awesome who is going to get some rest with hope of a nice recovery. Musicall Ride can run on both dirt and turf as well as on an off-track so there are lots of potential spots to place this 5 year old. He hasn\u2019t won a sprint yet but I can\u2019t rule that out as he\u2019s finshed second four times in seven starts in short runs.<\/p>\n Next week I\u2019m looking at 3 starters followed by 6 the second week, so I\u2019ll be a little short thereafter. I do have some in the farm I can use should I elect to auction off some underperformers, which is most likely to happen. So planning ahead, I\u2019ve spent 4 G-cards and have a horse that I\u2019m not too enthusiastic about named CHALLENGE TAKER. She\u2019s a 3-year old bred with the best talent, such as Mr. Prospector coming from way down the chain. <\/p>\n Totals<\/strong><\/p>\n SIRE CARDS:<\/p>\n Three G-cards came my way and 4 were used in breeding. The total cards are 2-F card and 18 G-cards.<\/p>\n BP\u2019s<\/p>\n 40 BP\u2019s are not too bad, but came from only one runner. The others brought home zilch. Advance the total to 449.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a lot of races the last two weeks, this week and next are scaled back to only three. I<\/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-32817","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\/32817","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=32817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32827,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32817\/revisions\/32827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}