Paging Mr. Greenhaw
DiscreetCat
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Horsepower?
Saw he was a Dogwood, hoping you might have some info here. Worked a heads-up bullet on June 26 with Justin Phillip, who was last seen running a close second (less than a length) in the Grade 2 True North Handicap last month. Wow! Also appears to have outworked Let's Have Us One (from the gate) in the dril before that, and that LHUO was last seen running 3rd in a Churchill maiden race (beaten roughly 5 lengths).
Anything else you can tell us?
Saw he was a Dogwood, hoping you might have some info here. Worked a heads-up bullet on June 26 with Justin Phillip, who was last seen running a close second (less than a length) in the Grade 2 True North Handicap last month. Wow! Also appears to have outworked Let's Have Us One (from the gate) in the dril before that, and that LHUO was last seen running 3rd in a Churchill maiden race (beaten roughly 5 lengths).
Anything else you can tell us?
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"All the two year olds that are with my four trainers are doing great. All are very happy with their horses. Steve Asmussen called me this morning and said he loves Horsepower and is going to blow him out tomorrow morning at Belmont. He is going to go 3/8ths."
Porter sent Horsepower to the Assman as opposed to Cowboy Larry Jones. Don't know if that means anything or not? Most of these are big time bloodlines who will want more than 5 furlongs. Also of note, Kieran sends out two in here and both race without Lasix, which may mean nothing or may mean that McLaughlin has BC in mind?
I'm thinking about taking a shot in here on the one with sprinter bloodline, #6 Carried Interest, who is out of Henny Hughes and has some pretty good work times. Should be one hell of a sprint race to watch, and every horse in here has a legit shot! I have a small involvement with Palice Malice, who is the ml fav due to being in the TAP barn, but his sire, Curlin, took a while to develop. The timing of this race sets up perfectly for Saratoga, and you will see many of these face-off again next month. I just don't think 5 furlongs for these is an indication of their talent?
Regarding your pick Carried Interest, he was actually the first one i looked at. As mentioned in my pick thread yesterday, owner Klaravich Stables has long been deadly with firster bought out of the 2yo's-in-training sales, and most (all?) of them used to be trained by Violette (as this one is). It seemed like last year he sent best stock to Terri Pompay @ Monmouth (she actually sent Currency Swap to Saratoga for that one's longshot debut win, so watch for taht angle this year, btw). So perhaps Violette is getting the second-stringers now, and that would seem to be backed up by Violette's pitiful record with firsters recently (1-for-22 over the last 18 months). This one did work a furlong in 10.0 at the March OBS though, one tick off the show's best (same as Boss Man Rocket, btw). And Violette is still Klaravich's New York guy, as far as i know. Would be no big surprise, aside from Violette's sudden lack of proficiency with firsters (again, a stark contrast to what he was doing a few years ago).
Car Dealers and horses! Go figure?
Forbes Firsters on the NYRA web site says this is the most expensive offspring by War Front.
Palice Malice will not be asked to go a blazing speed in his debut. TAP just wants him to get out and run in a race. Hopefully, better things await down the road when these baby races get a little longer.
Nice call with Carried Interest, John. And congrats on the nice second-place effort by Palace Malice. It was 8 lengths back to Horsepower in third....wow
FYI, Carried Interest worked heads-up with an unraced horse named Go Get The Basil in his final drill coming into this race. Also had worked hedas-up from the gate back on June 7 with an as-yet-unnamed horse out of the dam Ruby Summer.
As mentioned above, Palace Malice's two most recent drills came heads-up with Forever Thing (June 29) and El Duro (June 15).
Everybody, especially Todd himself, is really happy with Palice Malice performance. He showed good early speed on the rail and bulled his way into contention in the stretch, which is what you want to see from a firster baby, and was coming late to the winner going 5 furlongs. We don't think we have seen the best of him yet? He did not run past the winner late but Castellano reported that he wrapped up on him about the finish and did not let him run out. TAP does not think we saw his best stride yet and he cannot wait until he goes longer! javier is absolutely smitten with hope as he said this baby showed the heart of a future champion! We sure hope he is right!
Go Get The Basil and the Ruby Summer filly are each running @ Saratoga today. Actually, the Ruby Summer filly already lost (in Race 5). Hopefully, Go Get The Basil will fare better....
A little birdie told me Frank Fletcher is fucking around with the same whore who fucked up Bobby Petrino's life. She must have the best fake tits in Arkansas, but I'm sure she'll find away to fuck this guy over (and I think he has it coming - wish she would find Rick Porter next).
HRT meets TMZ
I should correct this info:
This is the girl they are both alleged (it's true) to have been fucking:
This is the girl Petrino was caught with (pictured with husband lol):
And the moral of the story:
Rick Porter ain't got a prayer of getting thru a romp with the brunette. That little bow-tie wearing little geek car dealer would probably rather take an S & M knock-down from Tiny Lister!