Category Archives: Broodmares

Update and the Belmont

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We ended May with a bang winning 4 races in the last half. PUPPYONASTRING (maiden)(Bone Doctors Stable), RUNNIN AWAY (maiden)(Jerry Merritt, Penny Lauer), POINT AFTER (maiden)(owners Charles Parks, Korus Derby Club, Penny Lauer) at Indiana Grand and ICED OVER (AOT) at Belmont Park. We started out well for June breaking another maiden running on the Turf with BOURBON N LIME (Michael Johnson, Dana Smith, Penny Lauer) at Indiana Grand and JOINT TENANT (Penny Lauer) at Churchill Downs which takes him over $200,000 in lifetime earnings. Hopefully the trend will continue if we can get more races to fill.

 

Let us talk the Belmont race tomorrow. It is an absolutely great card to bet on top to bottom. In the race itself I see it as American Pharoah’s race to lose. I think he will win and Muvtaahij will run second. This is the exacta, and one of Pletchers will hold on for third to complete the trifecta. I think American Pharoah will push Materiality out in the first turn a little bit and they will kind of gallop together until about 3/4ths of the race when American Pharoah will just gallop on. Muvtaahij will clean up for second. I do think it is a shame that Belmont cut the attendance off at 90,000. We can’t get fans and now they want to tell them they can not come. They are never equipped or staffed for it even if they only had 50,000. Since they don’t have off track betting anymore in Manhatten, I guess you bet on the computer and watch it on TV.

Have a nice day and may the horse be with you tomorrow.

 

Preakness Today

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I think the Preakness Trifecta will be the same, just in a different order. An interesting side bar,  Lucas instrumenting Calumet Farm buying Mr. Z. That would be an interesting press conference if he would beat American Pharoah. He might not beat him, but can affect the race as Mr. Z is going to be out there either near or on the pace.

Baffert could win the three races in the Triple Crown with two different horses, but that is not what he wants.

Good Luck to all!

 

MISTER POLLARD EARNS TOP HONOR

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Last night we attended the Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association awards banquet and came home with three honors. MISTER POLLARD was named Champion 3 Year Old Colt Indiana Bred 2014 and Indiana Horse of The Year 2014! Not only did we all have a great time racing MISTER POLLARD last year, we have also received these very special awards. We also took home an award for SWEET SUMMER (Mister Pollard’s mother) for Indiana Broodmare of the Year 2014. Falcon Racing representatives Michael Johnson and Tony Medley were able to attend and enjoy the moment as well. Indiana Racing opens on Tuesday, April 21st and we are all looking forward to a successful meet.

Mister Pollard wins The Too Much Coffee Stake

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It was a big day for the stable on November 1, Breeder’s Cup Day. The classy little colt MISTER POLLARD won the $150,000 Too Much Coffee Stake beating older horses for his owners W. Scott Farrar, Jim Farrar, Falcon Racing and Penny Lauer. He has an amazing attitude. Doesn’t get excited, just handles himself with class all the way around with everything he does.

It was an exciting race and finish. If you didn’t see it live last Saturday, you should go watch the replay.  Falcon Racing and their guests were so sure of his victory when he crossed the finish line. Even though they were standing about 20 yards before the finish line. There was no question in their mind that Mister Pollard was the winner. That was great, but I watched the last step on the TV and I wasn’t quite as convinced as they were. One thing the actual wire is about 4 foot past the center of the finish line post, and the way a fan would stand is not the angle that the wire is. It can be quite deceiving. Results of head bobs is one of the reasons I no longer have a full head of hair.

I did get encouragement when the track video was following Mister Pollard after the finish of the race, since he has a wall of screens viewing the race in the control room. He is usually right in those close calls. It didn’t give me encouragement when all the horses came back and the only two left was us and the four horse, which told me the jock on the four horse was not conceding.
But the Falcon Racing party was still jumping and hugging. They were 100% convinced. And after what seemed like eternity, Falcon Racing was right, which was truly outstanding. To say the horse ran a great race would be an understatement. He had the lead, lost the lead, came back and got the money. The competitive spirit of the horse has always amazed me in that situation.
Rafael Hernandez did a great job of riding the horse. He had breezed the horse the Sunday before, which is another credit to the colt. He won three of these Indiana Bred stakes this year with three different riders. Ricardo Santana, Juan Saez and now Rafael Hernandez. It wasn’t my choice to do that, it was just the circumstances played out that way. Ricardo Santana was riding in the Breeders Cup and Juan Saez lost his life in a tragic accident a few weeks ago. Mister Pollard was the last winner he rode at Indiana Grand on October 4th prior to his accident. Juan was the leading apprentice rider at Indiana Grand this year and they have named the award after him in his memory.
Mister Pollard had nine starts this year, three wins, two seconds and won $246,603 for 2014, which takes his lifetime earnings to $375,151.
As of right now he is the leading Indiana Bred money winning horse of 2014.