{"id":48607,"date":"2019-04-05T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=48607"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:30:38","slug":"spring-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=48607","title":{"rendered":"Spring At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a long time since I wrote one of these life on the farm articles\u00a0so I better get started.\u00a0 I used to enjoy writing but as I get older it seems to take me longer to get started.\u00a0 Once I get going, however, I still enjoy it.\u00a0 So, I have Ian Tyson on the stereo and while Matt is out planting bushes and flowers I will get started \u2013 I am sure he will finish before me.\u00a0 The small animal vet is due soon to do toenails and shots.\u00a0 Tomorrow is the horse vet.\u00a0 Always something and all of it expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a long wet winter \u2013 more rain than we have gotten in years, snow also, which considering I live at about 3000 feet is pretty awesome.\u00a0 Everything is really green and the weather is warming up making it tough on the allergies.\u00a0 There are so many wildflowers, grass and weeds that I imagine the fire season will be pretty grim but for now it is beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The new apartment and barn finally are finished and my friend has moved in.\u00a0 She liked the area she was in before and I am not sure she is happy on this side of the mountain but it is free and she is pretty broke so she will learn to love it. I have faith.\u00a0 Of course, I am jealous because I have never lived in a brand new house.\u00a0 It is really a nice property and the barn is should be in Better Homes and Barns.\u00a0 It has three stalls with pens but most of the horses will be out on the pasture except for adjustment periods between racetrack and pasture. I don’t have any horses over there now but will have the end of this month as the racehorses start to come home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speaking of racehorses \u2013 I have a slew of them.\u00a0 I bought a horse out of Maryland named Boomerang Miss. She has been wonderful, winning two and also has a couple of seconds and a third.\u00a0 She has only run one bad race for me.\u00a0 She is so gritty and tries so\u00a0 hard \u2013 I just love her.\u00a0 She is now stakes placed (that is a big deal if she goes on to a career as a broodmare) and has been running so well it is hard to remember that she was a 12,500 claimer when I got her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wildfire Kid and Nat Gio were both coming back off of injuries.\u00a0 Wildfire won a race since he has been back and a couple of in the monies.\u00a0 Nat Gio has had a couple of slow works since she returned to training in January and should start to pick it up soon.\u00a0 She needed the horse dentist badly and since he came she has been much happier.\u00a0 Lot’s of caps and sharp teeth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sedona Sunrise I claimed in January and he has a win and a second and a couple of fourths but then he stepped on a rock and we had to wait on that.\u00a0 He should be back soon.\u00a0 I claimed Oh Brother Jack the end of February and I hope he gets better soon as he hasn’t done much in two starts for me.\u00a0 We have him pointed towards Arizona Breed Day which gives horses born in AZ a chance to run for some decent purses.\u00a0 Sedona Sunrise is also a AZ bred so I should have a couple of shots at some purse money on the 20th<\/sup> of April.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Turf Paradise closes the first week of May and then we move to Prescott.\u00a0 The new track is named Arizona Downs and they have done a bunch of work on it.\u00a0 I have been out there a few times and it is really nice.\u00a0 Best of all it isn’t as far to travel as it is to Phoenix. I will bring Jack and Boomerang home for some R&R.\u00a0 Jack has been running non-stop since he was a 2 YO and Boomie likes the turf and Prescott doesn’t have a turf course. The other three will run through the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I still have three at the farm \u2013 Barilla, Story and Nae Doot.\u00a0 They are just fat and happy with nothing to do but eat.\u00a0 I may put Story back in training as a riding horse this summer when I don’t have so many at the track.\u00a0 She got a huge scaroid tumor above her eye last spring and I sent her to a specialist in Phoenix and he treated her all summer.\u00a0 She came home with nothing but a scar over her eye \u2013 well she was pretty thin but it didn’t take long to fix that.\u00a0 She looks good again so I am not embarrassed to send her to the trainer<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The Kentucky horses are doing well. Crown Secret is in foal to Flat Out and AP Pepper is in foal to Tale of Ekati. The two mares should foal this month if all goes well.\u00a0 As of now I am breeding Pepper back to Strong Mandate and bringing Secret home next fall after this colt is weaned.\u00a0 The yearlings will be coming back then also.\u00a0 Things can always change though<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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I guess that is about it.\u00a0 I have Wildfire Kid in on Sunday, April 7th <\/sup> but he is in tough and he will have to run very fast in order to get part of it.\u00a0 If he doesn’t fire this time, I may just retire him.\u00a0 He is nine and has done it all so it wouldn’t be a bad thing.\u00a0 Okay, I have things to do so see ya, next time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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