Things were looking good this week.\u00a0 Four horses were entered and the oddsmakers made them the favorite\u00a0 or second choice.\u00a0 When that happens, you just want to start filling out the deposit slips to bank the money before you earn it.\u00a0 That can really backfire and all your high hopes are popped like a balloon.<\/p>\n
Things were not that bad.\u00a0 Only one runner didn’t live up to expectations and that was ALTERED KILLER, who ironically was claimed away from the stable. \u00a0 This was his first start for the stable after being claimed a month ago in a $2,500 claiming race.\u00a0 He was entered this week, at the same track (OR) at the same distance (5.5f) and a slightly higher tag ($3,000). \u00a0\u00a0 After finishing fourth with a 96 speed, I was upbeat with the 7\/2 second choices chances.\u00a0 Apparently he didn’t get the message that he was expected to run well as he finished 6th with never being a threat.\u00a0 So after one race, he has been claimed away, leaving a vacancy to fill and a G-sire card.<\/p>\n
Also racing for the first time for the stable was KYRGYZSTAN, who stayed in IRE where I claimed him in a 9f race that he won.\u00a0 I had him in a local starter allowance race with a $5,000 tag at a slightly shorter 8.25f distance.\u00a0 As the second betting choice,\u00a0 he quickly stumbled to the rear quarter of the 13 horse field in the 11th spot by the first call, he passed by a few by the second call, but trailing by over 10 strides looked to be a bit much to overcome as he only won once with this size deficit before.\u00a0\u00a0 By the third call, he was in 5th and six behind the leader.\u00a0 The stretch run was terrific as he got his mojo going, took the lead and drew off to win by over two lengths.\u00a0\u00a0 A fantastic run worth 40 BP’s.\u00a0 Three sire cards were picked up with the win which had a rare D-card with a pair of G’s.<\/p>\n
Long distance runner RESERVATION FOR ME took to a 12f, $12,500 starter allowance race going on the turf for the first time for the stable.\u00a0 He has previously hit the board 6 times on the grass in 6 starts.\u00a0 The track would be in good condition, and the chalk 3\/5 favorite has not won on a wet track (but has been ITM in the two outings he’s had in off-track conditions).\u00a0\u00a0 The field was small with only four runners and Reservation ran well off the lead in second.\u00a0 He made a surge to the lead by the half but was joined with the eventual winner who loved the conditions more than Reservation did.\u00a0 The second place finish delivered 10 BP’s and earned one G-card.<\/p>\n
Two year old A THOUSAND JOYS, a horse that was bred using sire cards and named based on The Challenge objective of obtaining 1,000 BP’s.\u00a0\u00a0 This was her second career start and comes on the heels of finishing second in a MSW in her debut.\u00a0 This week she added a furlong in distance to 5.5f and moved to a $35,000\u00a0 claiming race.\u00a0 She entered the gate as the 2\/1 favorite and like her first start, she went right to the lead and it would be a lead she would have to fight hard to retain.\u00a0 The horse running second would not go away and inched closer and closer until they were head-to-head as they fought through the stretch.\u00a0\u00a0 The pair hit the wire together and A Thousand Joys would break her maiden with a win by a nose.\u00a0 The 70 speed was a nice improvement from 62 and even nicer were the 37 BP’s which came along with a pair of G-sire cards.<\/p>\n
The week brought in 87 BP’s, advancing the kitty to 256 which may be enough to find a decent DDS to breed with the shares in American Pharoah and AP Indy that are waiting to be used.\u00a0 One D-card and 6 G-cards this week are added to the 6 F and 4 G’s from last week.\u00a0\u00a0 So trading sets of 5 cards upward clears out all the G-cards (total of 10) to 2 more F-cards (giving 8) which trade up to one E a(and 3 F’s left over).\u00a0 So after all this swapping, we have 1-D, 1-E and 3-F cards.<\/p>\n
The vacancy left by Altered Killer being claimed has been filled by ALWAYS CONFLICTED, a horse that was claimed and housed in the farm and will be making his first stable start in a few weeks, most likely on the dirt, a surface he has not raced on.<\/p>\n
As I like to give 2-year olds a decent race between starts, A Thousand Joys has been sent back to the farm and VYZA FRANCE has been moved out of the farm as the replacement.\u00a0 Vyza was claimed a few weeks ago and we’ll be looking for her to add to her consistency in hitting the board (12 of 17 so far) and delivering some of those BP’s\u00a0 (which I’m sure everyone will agree are more valuable then bitcoins).<\/p>\n
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