General News

• Our online seminar, ‘Buying Horses at Auction’ will be held next Thursday June 18^th at 7:30pm. This will be a comprehensive introduction to the sales process, with specific facts and figures and NO sales pitches. If you want to know the difference between buying broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, two-year-olds, etc., what horses cost and what paying top $ really buys you, what the experts look for at a sale, the importance of movement, pedigree, conformation, etc., how the process really works, and separate hype from reality, this seminar is for you. ALL welcome but space is limited and priority will be given to current co-owners (we’ve already received a large number of responses in just the first few hours, thank you!).
• Good news! Racing is expected to return to Parx June 22^nd & Penn National June 19^th, with an initial schedule of 3 days a week at Parx and 2 days a week at Penn. All our horses are ready to run as soon as find races for them
• An ‘Open Letter to the Industry continues to receive a great deal of attention and will be appearing in more publications shortly

Horse by Horse News  

• Giuliana Vee was 5^th today at Laurel Park; got a favorable outside post in a 9 horse field and despite acting up in the gate a bit broke sharply and got a dream trip, sitting a close up 3^rd under a fine ride by Sheldon Russell. Made a move for the lead turning for home and then tired noticeably in the stretch. She’d been off several months and unable to train much at Penn while no racing, so we had anticipated she might have needed this one and she clearly did. The race should clearly have her fit and ready for her next start and we expect a big effort next time at Penn in a few weeks.
• Seven Seven and Life on the Edge came out of their 3 furlong works this week at Monmouth Park very well. Looking for a race for Life on the Edge at Laurel Park ASAP (we entered yesterday and the race got 17 entries for 12 slots and we didn’t get in), while Seven Seven is making steady progress towards his debut and is scheduled to work another 3/8 next Monday or Tuesday.
• Rapstorerocks had a nice maintenance work at Penn National and is ready to run as soon as we can find a race for him.
• New Found Treasure well and scheduled to run at Penn National opening day, June 19^th, assuming they run and the race goes and she gets in.
• No Good Deed had an easy maintenance work yesterday at Penn National; doing well and ready to run.
• Pango well at Gulfstream Park, looking for a spot for him. 
• Fire’s Finale also well at Gulfstream Park, about 3-4 weeks from his debut if all keeps going well. 
• Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal, both doing excellent at Hidden Brook Farm. 

Horse Workout Notification
June 11, 2020
No Good Deed (3-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: OBS JUne 2019 purchase
Date: June 11, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:60 Breezing
Track Condition: Muddy
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 4/5

Horse Workout Notification
June 9, 2020
Rapstorerocks (3-Year-Old Colt)
Your comments for this horse were: Purchased oBS June 2019
Date: June 9, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 51:20 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt

General News

• After the great response to our first online event last week we are pleased to announce our next event will be held on June 18^th at 7:30pm. The seminar, ‘Buying Horses at Auction’ will be an introduction to the sales process, with specific facts and figures and NO sales pitches If you want to know the difference between buying broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, two-year-olds, etc., what horses cost and what paying top $ really buys you, what the experts look for at a sale, the importance of movement, pedigree, conformation, etc., how the process really works, and separate hype from reality, this seminar is for you. ALL welcome but space is limited and priority will be given to current co-owners. Look for an email link shortly.
• An ‘Open Letter to the Industry’ spearheaded by Kenwood Racing and signed by 40 owners, trainers, jockeys, farms, sales consignors, etc. and including many of the leading people in the business appeared in the TDN (Thoroughbred Daily News) on June 8^th and has already received a great deal of attention. Look for it to appear in other industry publications shortly. Real reform is long overdue; the letter details four specific areas of focus, hopefully serving as a template for action and change. You can help by writing a brief letter to SUEFINLEY@THETDN.COM and expressing your support.
• Racing may return to Penn National as early as the end of next week. Plans are in the works for racing to resume beginning June 19^th, with an initial schedule of 2 days a week. Still not finalized but things are looking up. Stay tuned for more details, It would be great to have any opportunities for our four horses stabled at Penn to run without shipping.
• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.    

Horse by Horse News  

• Giuliana Vee runs this Friday at Laurel Park, got a favorable outside post in a 9 horse field at a good distance for her, 1 mile. Been off several months while no racing throughout the northeast so may need this one but training really well, has a top rider, and a real shot here.
• New Found Treasure and No Good Deed are both doing well and both ready to run as soon as racing at Penn National resumes.
• Rapstorerocks had a nice maintenance work at Penn National and is ready to run as soon as we can find a race for him
• Seven Seven and Life on the Edge came out of their 3 furlong works at Monmouth Park very well. Looking for a race for Life on the Edge at Laurel Park ASAP, while Seven Seven is making steady progress towards his debut.
• Fire’s Finale also well at Gulfstream Park, about 3-4 weeks from his debut if all keeps going well.
• Pango well at Gulfstream Park, looking for a spot for him.
• Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal, both doing excellent at Hidden Brook Farm.

Rapstorerocks (3-Year-Old Colt)
Your comments for this horse were: Purchased oBS June 2019
Date: June 9, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 51:20 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 62/67

General News

• Our first online event via GoToMeeting last Thursday was a huge success! In response to the 40+ people who have asked for more online events, we’re pleased to announce we will be having an online seminar later this month about the sales process. Look for the date – time and more information shortly and thanks for your support. 
• We invite everyone to look at the Thoroughbred Daily News this evening/tomorrow to view a letter to the thoroughbred industry spearheaded by Kenwood and signed by 40+ people, including many household names in the business. It will be appearing in other industry publications shortly.  We have always been a loud voice for much-needed reforms and will continue to work with like-minded people to move our industry forward.
• The prospects for owners to be admitted for live racing at Monmouth Park on or shortly after opening day are good. Stay tuned!
• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.    

Horse by Horse News  

• Giuliana Vee returns to the entries this week at Laurel Park, gets post #9 in a 9 horse field. Obviously will need a race after a long layoff when no racing was open anywhere in the region but trainer Mark Salvaggio reports she’s doing really well. If nothing else, this will be a good conditioner for her that should give her a fitness edge over other horses who have not started in a while when racing hopefully returns to Penn National towards the end of this month.
• New Found Treasure, Rapstorerocks and No Good Deed all well too at Penn National and we are looking for races for them at other tracks also until racing returns at Penn.  
• Seven Seven and Life on the Edge both good out of fine workouts yesterday at Monmouth Park. You can see a video here.   and also see the work times below. Note the clockers incorrectly confused our horse, Seven Seven with a 3yo named Seven & Seven but rest assured this is your horse’s work (he worked in company with Life on the Edge, the other horse is in Kentucky!). As explained many times before, workout times – information is at best, rough estimations and subject to plenty of errors. Anyway, both Life on the Edge & Seven Seven are doing really well….
• Fire’s Finale had another fine breeze at Gulfstream Park this morning, doing excellent as he approaches his debut.  You can see a video of him warming up prior to his work taken by Ron.
• Pango, good out of an improved 4^th and looking at another spot for him later this month. 
• Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal, both doing excellent at Hidden Brook Farm.

Horse Workout Notification
June 8, 2020
Fire's Finale (2-Year-Old Colt)
Your comments for this horse were: Fire's final foal
Date: June 8, 2020
Track: GULFSTREAM PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 50:04 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 7/9

Horse Workout Notification
June 7, 2020

General News

• Thanks to the 25++ people who were able to attend Our first online event via GoToMeeting last Thursday and also to the 40+ people who have taken the time to respond to our 2 question, 2 minute survey.
• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.    

Horse by Horse News  

• Enjoy this short video from this morning of Seven Seven and Life on the Edge training this morning at Monmouth Park. Life on the Edge had a nice little timed work this morning, doing well.
• Fire’s Finale will breeze again this week at Gulfstream Park, doing excellent as he approaches his debut.  
• Pango, good out of an improved 4^th and looking at another spot for him later this month. 
• New Found Treasure, Giuliana Vee, Rapstorerocks and No Good Deed all well. Just waiting for racing to resume in Pa., may be in mid-June, fingers crossed we'll keep you updated. We can now enter at Laurel Park and are looking at races there also.
• Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal, both doing excellent at Hidden Brook Farm

Horse Workout Notification
June 7, 2020
Life On the Edge (3-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: KRP Racehorse, purchased OBS March 2019
Date: June 7, 2020
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 36:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 1/6

General News

• Our first online event via GoToMeeting is Thursday evening at 7:30pm. The meeting will include a report on all your horses, updates on the status of Monmouth Park, a discussion of upcoming 2 year old sales and plenty of time for your comments and questions. If you didn't receive a link or need it again, kindly email Jack@kenwoodracing.com.
• Horses arrive on the grounds at Monmouth Park as they ready for opening day on July 3rd (read story, TRAINER JOHN STEPHENS FIRST THROUGH THE STABLE GATE AS MONMOUTH PARK WELCOMES BACK HORSES FOR 2020 SEASON)
• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.    

Horse by Horse News  

• Two Kenwood runners arrived at Monmouth Park yesterday and settled in well; Seven Seven from Overbrook Farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey and Life on the Edge from Palm Meadows training center in Florida (see photo of Seven Seven and Life on the Edge taken by Kelly Breen).

• Fire’s Finale will breeze again this week at Gulfstream Park, doing excellent.   
• Pango good out of an improved 4^th at Gulfstream Park and looking at another spot for him later this month. 
• New Found Treasure, Giuliana Vee, Rapstorerocks and No Good Deed all well at Penn National, you can see photos from training on May 30th. Just waiting for racing to resume in Pa., may be in mid-June, fingers crossed we'll keep you updated. 
• Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal, both doing excellent at Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky., H

Horse by Horse News  

• New Found Treasure “went easy, nice” Giuliana Vee “worked good, doing fine” Rapstorerocks “Julio Hernandez worked him, never works horses fast and he likes him” and No Good Deed “doing real good” – (comments from trainer Mark Salvaggio) all worked at Penn National yesterday. Like everyone we are waiting for racing to resume at Penn. Unlike neighboring states where racing is set to resume, Pennsylvania is in the midst of a political battle and the date for tracks to re-open are still unknown, although news this morning indicated a possible agreement for racing to resume in June. Mark is looking at alternate tracks to run at beginning next month if racing is not officially scheduled to resume at Penn. It’s a challenging situation for everyone and we will keep you posted.
• Fire’s Finale had another excellent work yesterday at Gulfstream Park. Went under wraps and still showed speed. Trainer Ron Spatz took this brief video of him at the track and thinks he’s about 30 – 40 days from his debut at this point. 
• Seven Seven  also doing really well, he’ll ship into Monmouth Park as soon as trainer Kelly Breen’s other horses arrive from Florida very shortly. Owner Ralph Pastore was on hand for his training yesterday at Overbrook Farm, took these photos and commented “He is doing very well, the rider said he is her favorite and will follow him throughout his career as he has a great ease when working”.
• Pango, good out of an improved 4^th last weekend at Gulfstream Park. It was without question a step forward and hopefully he’ll be ready for another move forward next time.
• Life on the Edge  ok out of a mess of a race last weekend at Gulfstream Park. Her body turned the wrong way when they opened the gate, was caught flatfooted and squeezed, and after pressing the pace stopped to a walk and was eased to the wire. Fortunately she seems to have come back ok out of this, went back to the track today and trained fine at Palm Meadows. She will have the opportunity to make amends at Monmouth Park, she’s schedule to head north with the bulk of Kelly Breen’s Florida horses very shortly.

General News

• A ton of works and photos to share, but first we begin with some news about our first online event via GoToMeeting, which will be held next week. All owners will receive a link shortly with details on the date & time. The meeting will include a report on all your horses, updates on the status of Monmouth Park, a discussion of upcoming 2 year old sales and plenty of time for your comments and questions. All Kenwood owners and premier friends are welcome to attend, stay tuned for details. If you don’t receive a link by tomorrow evening and wish to attend the meeting, kindly email Jack@kenwoodracing.com  . RSVP NOT required but if you do plan to join the meeting we wouldn’t mind if you let us know with a quick email
• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.   
• Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal at Hidden Brook Farm, both doing excellent. Here’s a nice video of the foal learning to walk under the direction of a handler yesterday. They are taught lessons from a young age and you can see he’s calm, growing rapidly, and looks absolutely fantastic…

Horse Workout Notification
May 27, 2020
Fire's Finale (2-Year-Old Colt)
Your comments for this horse were: Fire's final foal
Date: May 27, 2020
Track: GULFSTREAM PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 37:06 Breezing
Track Condition: Good
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 6/16

New Found Treasure (4-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: Claimed July Mon.
Date: May 27, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Five Furlongs
Time: 1.03:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 5/12

Giuliana Vee (3-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: KRP Racehorse, purchased OBS MArch 2019
Date: May 27, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 48:10 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 26/63

Rapstorerocks (3-Year-Old Colt)
Your comments for this horse were: Purchased oBS June 2019
Date: May 27, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Five Furlongs
Time: 1.04:10 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 12/12

No Good Deed (3-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: OBS JUne 2019 purchase
Date: May 27, 2020
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Five Furlongs
Time: 1.03:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 5/12

Horse by Horse News

• First up at Gulfstream Park was an improved effort for Pango, who was coming off a truly awful debut for us (7^th, beaten 15 lengths, never in the hunt). This time he went right to the lead, held it for most of the race, and tired a bit late to finish 4^th, beaten just under 4 lengths for the win. It was without question a step forward and hopefully he’ll be ready for another move forward next time.
• Next up at Gulfstream Park was the disappointment as Life on the Edge had her body turned the wrong way when they opened the gate, was caught flatfooted and squeezed, and after pressing the pace stopped to a walk and was eased to the wire, finishing 5^th and last in the shortened field when the race was taken off the turf. Hopefully she’ll come back ok out of this and will have the opportunity to make amends at Monmouth Park, where she will ship to in about 10 days.
• A really rough break on Saturday with Lookinlikeaqueen at Gulfstream Park. Broke flatfooted and bumped right at the start, costing her at least 4-5 lengths and putting her in last in the early going. Made nice multiple moves between horses and ended up 6^th, beaten just over 2 lengths for the win and (seriously), ¾ of a length for 2^nd in a blanket 7 horse finish. As the rider said, “if she breaks ok, she wins”.  In an overflow field with the highly unfavorable #11 outside post in a 12 horse field it all comes down to the trip, you just can’t afford to give away several lengths at the start. She was claimed from us as we knew going in, it was the same optional claiming race we claimed her out of 2 races back with a huge $41,000 purse that she can only run in for the claiming price. A good break and a win here and we make real $, instead we end up with the claiming price back minus 2 months of expenses.
• In other news Fire’s Finale is training absolutely great at Gulfstream Park and we are excited to see him make his debut. He was going to work this weekend but the track was absolutely a sea of mud this morning so trainer Ron Spatz will give him a couple of days and probably work him Tuesday or Wednesday. If all goes just right from here he’s about 3-4 works meaning 30-40 days from being ready to run.
• Seven Seven also doing really well at Overbrook Farm, he’ll ship into Monmouth Park as soon as trainer Kelly Breen’s other horses arrive from Florida in early June.
• New Found Treasure, Giuliana Vee, Rapstorerocks and No Good Deed all well at Penn National. Like everyone we are waiting for racing to resume at Penn.

General News

• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.   
• Enjoy these photos of Lisa Limon and her handsome Liam’s Map foal, both doing excellent and enjoying life in the lush grass of a Kentucky spring….

A big weekend ahead for Kenwood Racing runners at Gulfstream Park with one for Saturday and two for Sunday….

Horse by Horse News

• Lookinlikeaqueen runs Saturday at Gulfstream Park in an overflow field with the highly unfavorable #11 outside post in a 12 horse field (with 4 waiting on the also eligible list to run if anyone scratches). Not an easy race but she’s training great and ready to run.  A good trip and she’ll run very well in here.
• Life on the Edge will be scratched for her race tomorrow (Friday) in favor of a race Sunday at Gulfstream Park. She gets a good rider and a decent post, with the right trip should move forward from her 2020 debut last time when she took the lead at the top of the stretch and tired late in a race she needed.
• Pango gets in Sunday at Gulfstream Park as well, one race before Life on the Edge runs, so a lot of action in a short time frame. It’s a 10 horse field and while he too draws an outside post, at 1 mile on the dirt that’s not a bad place to be and we are hoping for a better effort here than in his debut for us last time.

As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page. 

Horse by Horse News

• Lookinlikeaqueen was entered for Saturday at Gulfstream Park and the race went. It’s an overflow field and she got the highly unfavorable #11 outside post for the race in a 12 horse field with 4 waiting on the also eligible list to run I f anyone scratches.  Hopefully one or two inside of her will scratch by race time to give her a little better post. She’s training great and ready to run. 
• Pango was entered for two races this Saturday at Gulfstream Park and neither one went. One came back, enter tomorrow for Sunday.
• Life on the Edge excellent out of a terrific work in company. She runs Friday at Gulfstream Park and will ship north about 10 days after her race.
• Fire’s Finale perfect out of his work at Gulfstream Park this week. The horse is training absolutely great and is on track to run by the end of next month. We are very pleased and excited to see him make his debut.
• Seven Seven looks absolutely super. He’ll ship into Monmouth Park in June.
• New Found Treasure, Giuliana Vee and No Good Deed all well at Penn National. Like everyone we are waiting for racing to resume at Penn.

General News

• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.   
• Lisa Limon in foal to top young sire Palace Malice, checked again and in foal at 29 days which is great news. She and her foal by Liam’s Map are both doing excellent at Hidden Brook Farm.

Horse by Horse News

• Life on the Edge excellent out of a terrific work in company.
• Fire’s Finale continues to train exceptionally well at Gulfstream Park (see new photo from yesterday morning). He worked this morning at Gulfstream Park, his first 3/8 officially timed work and once again we’ll let trainer Ron Spatz do the talking…. “Good morning, I know I told you that I wasn’t going to breeze Fire’s Finale for a while, but he did so good out of the gate the other day and track was good this morning so I went ahead and breezed him 3/8, by himself. He went a little better than 36, did it very easily, no urging, just the right way, 12 and change, 12 and change, and finished up in 11 and change. Pretty impressive, he has a lot of talent”.  As detailed in our blog post (link above and repeated at the end of this email), workout times aren’t always accurate and mean a lot less than how the horse did it. That said, he had by far the fastest work of the day and as Ron stated just above “did it very easily, no urging”. As well as he’s training, our plan is to stay at Gulfstream Park through his debut and then ship north to join the rest of the stable at Monmouth Park in July. All of this subject to change based on racing schedules, etc. What matters most is the horse is training absolutely great and is on track to run by the end of next month. We are very pleased and excited to see him make his debut.
• Seven Seven looks absolutely super (see photo from his gallop this morning at Overbrook Farm in NJ) and a brief video here. He’s ready to go to the track anytime; he’ll ship into Monmouth Park as soon as Kelly’s horses arrive from Florida and get set up in June.
• Pango fine and will be entered Wednesday for this weekend at Gulfstream Park. 
• Lookinlikeaqueen ready to roll and will also be entered this week for this weekend at Gulfstream Park. She had a nice, easy maintenance work today to keep her sharp for her upcoming race and went easily and well.
• New Found Treasure, Giuliana Vee and No Good Deed all well at Penn National. Like everyone we are waiting for racing to resume at Penn. Here are photos of Giuliana Vee, Rapstorerocks and No Good Deed this morning taken by trainer Mark Salvaggio.

General News

• We have a new blog post we think you’ll enjoy, Workout times and what they really mean – at the sales and on the racetrack
• With Belmont Park cleared to resume racing June 1^st and Monmouth Park is scheduled to begin their season July 3^rd our horses will be shipping into Monmouth Park the first week of June. Here’s the latest horse by horse news…
• As usual, you can find updated entry information on your horses at Equibase or on our entries page.  
• Lisa Limon in foal to top young sire Palace Malice, checked again and in foal at 29 days which is great news. She and her foal by Liam’s Map are both doing excellent.
• Finally, our heartfelt condolences to the friends and family of trainer John Mazza, who passed away at age 82 last week. He was a fixture at Monmouth Park, a great guy and will be missed…Veteran New Jersey Trainer John Mazza Passes Away at 82

Horse Workout Notification
May 18, 2020
Fire’s Finale (2-Year-Old Colt)
Your comments for this horse were: Fire’s final foal
Date: May 18, 2020
Track: GULFSTREAM PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 35:82 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 1/9

Horse Workout Notification
May 18, 2020
Lookinlikeaqueen (4-Year-Old Filly)
Your comments for this horse were: Claimed 3-13-20 GP
Date: May 18, 2020
Track: GULFSTREAM PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 37:81 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 5/9