We hope you all had a great Breeders Cup Day! We sure did, only it was at Indiana Grand and not California.
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Indiana Thoroughbred Racing Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euDRZuqCOBs&feature=youtu.be
Above is a link to a video that the Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders put together to help educate and spread the word about the impact racing has on the local economy. We all need to do what we can to help promote our product and to encourage people to get involved and enjoy the sport as much as we do.
Let me know what you think.
Dynamite Stick wins….and other news
The stable went over $800,000 in earnings for the year. We are behind the last two years, but that happens. We still have 90 days to catch up. We will definitely go over a million this year with the horses we have. We hope to get some new ones to help boost it up even further.
We won a race at Indiana Grand today with homebred DYNAMITE STICK for owners Jack Danehy, Barry Ward, Terry Ward and Penny Lauer.
I went to the last day of the Kentucky Downs meet in Franklin, Kentucky with JANE’S HEIR and SNEAKIN AWAY finishing 4th and 2nd respectively. On the way down I stopped at the CorvetteMuseum in Bowling Green. The museum is entirely about the Corvette (and a little about the sink hole). It is quite unique how the building is completely in tact other than the sink hole in the middle of the building. Interesting. Just a little side trip for the day. I did have lunch at the Boyce General Store in Boyce, Kentucky. I enjoyed a Kentucky Fried Round Steak Sandwich with a side of Chocolate Chip Cookie. I could have had a moon pie (as I was in Moon Pie country), but went for the homemade cookie instead. Since the races are on central time, we didn’t get finished until right before dark. It is very much a county fair atmosphere. If you are ever in the neighborhood in the month of September you can tailgate and bring in your own liquor.
Tomorrow back to Indiana Grand.
August Recap
Overall August was a very productive month for the stable. We ran at four different racetracks (Saratoga, Indiana Grand, Presque Isle, Belterra).
We made 5 starts with the three horses we took up to Saratoga for their 40 day meet. We had a win, one second, two thirds and one fourth. One filly was claimed and we collected over $72,000 in purse money. That is the first time we have had horses at Saratoga in over seven years.
We ran one horse SNEAKIN AWAY at Presque Isle the very last day of the month and he was a winner.
At Indiana Grand we won three races. Two of which were stake races. We won the Governor’s Stake for the second year in a row. This years winner was MISTER POLLARD for owners Scott Farrar, Jim Farrar, Falcon Racing (Mike Johnson) and Penny Lauer. We also won the 1st Running of “The Paul Tinkle ITOBA Stallion Season colts and geldings stake” with another homebred HOOSIER NEIGHBOR. DREAMIN BIG ran third in a stake and then came back a week later to win an Allowance race.
Hopefully we will get a few more 2 year olds running and with the three tracks (Indiana Grand, Churchill Downs, Kentucky Downs) all running in September; we hope to have another good month.
We always need your help. Ready and willing to claim one for you. Don’t forget the September Sales start on Monday!
Big Day at Indiana Grand
We had a very good day today beginning with our oldest daughter Elizabeth celebrating her 27th birthday.
Indiana Grand had four Indiana Bred Stakes today and we had a win, a third, a fourth and a fifth as well as a couple of no where’s. The big winner of the day was homebred MISTER POLLARD who won the $150,000 Governor’s Stakes for owners Falcon Racing Stable (Michael Johnson Tony Medley) Scott and Jim Farrar (all of whom bought into the colt as an unraced Two Year Old) and Penny Lauer. This puts his lifetime earnings up near a quarter of a million dollars. We also ran 4th in this same race with another homebred named AFT. We happened to win the Governor’s Stakes race last year with JOINT TENANT.
DREAMIN BIG ran third today. She ran a good race and went over $550,000 in earnings today as her career winds down.
We got our first quote in the Saratoga Special, which is a daily tabloid that is put out in Saratoga everyday after our big win with ICED OVER. Here is the quote….and the link http://thisishorseracing.com/news/PDF/2014special/08-05-14.pdf
• A morning shoe change helped Iced Over get
over the turf and win Monday’s fourth race, a New
York-bred maiden going 1 1/8 miles.
The race came just after an afternoon downpour,
and went to the hard-charging Iced Over, who held
off a late rally from long shot first-time starter Talladega
to win by a half-length. Manuel Franco rode
the winner, a son of Utopia and the Pine Bluff mare
Glimmer Ice. Owner, trainer and co-breeder Michael
Lauer said his horse was battling a quarter crack.
“He is still growing out of it,” Lauer said. “We
are soaking it and we just put a bar shoe on it and
we three-quartered it today.”
Although the shoe did not slow down the colt’s
training much, the injury did slow down his season
as he made his first start since finishing third at
Churchill Downs in June.
“There was a race two weeks ago and we weren’t
ready to run so, we had to wait our turn,” said Lauer,
“He’s kind of been a hard luck horse but he ran
a big race today.”
– Katie Brus
The stable is just under $600,000 in earnings and my trainer stats have moved me from the 300’s to 230 nationwide.
Looking to move forward as we have four more horses running in the next two days.