Another entry, another big weekend

Final call for MORNING TRAINING at Monmouth Park this Saturday, please RSVP if you wish to attend. A special invite for those new owners who have yet to attend a morning training session, this is a great opportunity to learn more about how this business really works and see your horses up close. We hope everyone will take advantage of this opportunity at least once before racing ends for the season at Monmouth next month.

  • Smarty Cat makes her second career start in race 2 at Monmouth Park, looking to build on a nice 3rd in her debut as she comes back on 2 weeks rest this Saturday. It’s a small field on the dirt, she gets leading rider Nik Juarez, and if she can handle the shorter than usual time between races she should be tough to beat in here. All owners who need help with seating-admissions please email George@Kenwoodracing.com
  • Rapstorerocks and ShimmyShimmy Shake will both be entered tomorrow for Sunday at Monmouth Park, so if their races go it will be another action-filled weekend for Kenwood Racing runners.
  • Start A Fire and Giuliana Vee worked together from the gate this morning at Monmouth Park with a 3rd horse and both went really well. Not timed works, the next of those for both of them is scheduled for this Saturday (when we will have morning training for owners at Monmouth), but both went really well. Start A Fire is about three weeks and Giuliana Vee about six weeks from their debuts. You can see a video taken by trainer Kelly Breen here:

 

 

  • New Found Treasure: there is an ideal spot for her in two weeks against what should be slightly softer company, hopefully she’ll be ready and it will go.
  • Starring John Wain and Annie’s Candy doing well, just looking for a spot to run them, maybe at Los Alamitos in September
  • Night Of Idiots and Magic Musketier also doing well in California
  • Scat Daddy filly Lisa Limon fine at farm in Kentucky. She’s in foal to first crop sire Liam’s Map, whose two year old son Basin ran away with the grade 1 Hopeful stakes at Saratoga and is currently ranks as one of the three top two year olds in the country. Plus Lisa Limon’s two year old half-brother placed in a stake (2nd by a neck in a very game effort) in his 2nd career start, so there’s a lot of good things going on with her family. She is entered in the Keeneland November sale in Kentucky and we are excited to see her sell there.

 

This is a good time to remind our many new co-owners that all races mentioned may or may not go, all horses may need more or less time than timing - dates shown on our website, etc. New owners regularly email us with questions like “I see my horse is scheduled to run on ---- date, I want to make plans – buy plane tickets for that day”……There are never guaranteed race dates with any horse anywhere in the world, anytime in history (seriously!). Sorry, it’s not a football or basketball game, it just doesn’t work that way. Famous champions have gotten sick or hurt the morning of a Triple Crown race and been scratched, horses get scratched at the starting gate. Once at Parx, the entire racing card was cancelled because of little rodents on the track (really!). This year, they cancelled half the races on Haskell Day at Monmouth Park with no notice because of heat as many of you remember. We didn’t have any horses running but if we did you’d have made a trip for nothing with no notice. In this business, shit happens! Thus sayings like ‘this is the most wonderful and the most frustrating business in the world’ and ‘there’s 1 way to win a race and 100 ways to lose a race’.