All good things eventually come to an end, and so it was with Long May You Run on September 2nd in his Monmouth Park debut, as he put in his usual game effort to finish 3^rd, outrun by the heavily favored dropdown and just failing to hold 2^nd late and was claimed from us out of the race. While not unexpected, all of us who have enjoyed having this horse in our barn for four great years of racing were understandably sad to see him go. Long May You Run made 25 starts for us from age two – five, with an excellent record of 7 wins, 3 seconds, and 4 thirds. We purchased him back in 2013 at the OBS March two year old sale for what we felt was a bargain price given his excellent confirmation and racehorse pedigree. It’s hard to find good horses for $40,000 at any sale, let alone a select sale by the outstanding sire City Zip.  Long May You Run proved to be a bargain indeed, earning over $175,000 for us while giving all his owners many thills, winner’s circle photos, and making co-owner group #15 profitable. If all horses were like this, it would be an easy game. Kudos to our entire sales team including Steve DiMauro and Adam Parker for selecting him at the sale, and especially to trainer Mark Salvaggio for managing his entire racing career so well from his Penn National base for the last four years.