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At the rodeo sort of proves it Chief. they get frightened easily with anything touching them around the flank area. They use the flank rope to get those Bronco's Bucking , yet you can tighten a girth strap and horse doesn't care. You've worked with horses plenty and know the flank is a very sensitive area? you're being quite 'Insensitive' if you can't recognise that obvious fact lol 😆 🤣 ..there a bit of thinner tissue between the hind quarter and Abdomen. Ears are another quite sensitive spot. some of the sensitive buggers hate having the earplugs jammed in. there's a bit of technique to it.
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By Chief Stipe · Posted
Here is Steve Hunt's Analysis of the Southland Guineas: Pivotal Ten landed on a 97 rating. The clock backed up the visual, great sustained speed. The last 200m sectionals, Pivotal Ten was very slow at the end, but more than understandable given the prior speed she showed. That doesn't detract from the performance or rating, but more so offers an indicator that she will need to be rated a little more efficiently if she's a chance to run 1500m near that rating level. If a little slow into stride like her last two and she's then revved up to find a position somewhere up near the lead, that can make it a little more difficult to switch off and relax well enough to run a strong 1500m. At the same time, I'd be snapping her up if I had a Kiwi slot yet to be filled. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Okay, so possibly Magnitude (Not This Time) won't ever do anything quite like that again. But let's enjoy the moment, at least, and relish the sheer theater of his GII Risen Star performance–much, for instance, as people did the astounding sophomore debut of Dr. Carter in 1984. He had won two of seven previous starts; Magnitude, two of six. But even though so unpressured that he won by 17 lengths, Dr. Carter equalled the Hialeah track record. Their trainer John Veitch declared him better than Alydar. The stage was set for a Flamingo Stakes showdown with Devil's Bag, the champion juvenile lately syndicated for $36 million. Typical of this game, however, both were beaten–Devil's Bag folding for the only time in his life, and Dr. Carter failing to wear down Time for a Change by a neck. Their collective fortunes thereafter remind us to take things one day at a time, with Magnitude as with every other horse. All three ended up missing the Derby, Dr. Carter and Time for a Change with a virus and Devil's Bag with injury. (And of course, by Tuesday morning, after this piece was written, the news had broken that Magnitude was off the Triple Crown trail and will undergo surgery for a chip in his ankle). At stud, Devil's Bag didn't really live up to his valuation and Time for a Change owed his reputation largely to Fly So Free. Dr. Carter, albeit managing a Grade I win at four, proved such a disappointing stallion that he was soon exported to Brazil. The son of Caro did leave behind two daughters of note, however. One, though unraced, became dam of that fast horse Lost in the Fog (Lost Soldier). The other, Belle Nuit, a half-sister to dual Grade I scorer Ms. Eloise (Nasty and Bold), won five of 23 starts, including a turf stakes at Aqueduct, before becoming a rather better producer. One daughter, by Belong to Me, won three graded stakes on dirt and another on turf, but Belle Nuit's standout was Octave, runner-up in four elite races–including the GI Kentucky Oaks won by Rags to Riches–before gaining overdue reward in the GI Mother Goose and GI Coaching Club American Oaks. After bowing out in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, beaten two necks in the Monmouth mire, Octave shipped to Fasig-Tipton where she was sold for $4 million to Darley. There was some controversy at the time, the Coolmore team being under the impression that their equivalent bid had been recognized. For most of the time since, they can't have felt much regret. Though Octave was given covers commensurate with her cost, overall her progeny has tended not to stand much racing. An exception was Portamento (Ire) (Shamardal), a group-placed sprinter in Britain and Dubai, while her son Incognito (A.P. Indy) lasted well enough to run fourth in the GI Belmont Stakes, albeit never ran again. Zingarelli (Ire) (Bernardini) didn't make the starting gate until he was four, winning both starts impressively before disappearing again, this time for good, while his full-sister, Rockadelic, was culled by Godolphin for €75,000 as an unraced 3-year-old at the 2017 Goffs February Sale. She subsequently made a single start, tailed off at Delaware Park, before being sent to More Than Ready and sold for $180,000 at the Keeneland November Sale. Her purchaser immediately redeemed that investment when the filly she was carrying made $280,000 as a yearling. Two further visits to More Than Ready proved somewhat less lucrative, however, and the mare was moved on for $140,000 back at the November Sale in 2021. She was in foal to Not This Time, whose fee had just been raised to $40,000 from $12,500 after his explosive freshman campaign. Once again, her buyer made an immediate profit, selling the resulting colt as a weanling for $310,000 to FMQ Stables, but sent Rockadelic through as the very next hip, in foal to McKinzie, and bade her farewell for $110,000 to Freddie Bloodstock. The Not This Time colt was pinhooked in the same ring the following September, bringing a nice profit at $450,000 from Winchell Thoroughbreds. And his name, of course, is Magnitude. Safe to say that there's plenty of excitement in the Freddie Bloodstock camp now. The docket for Rockadelic was signed by Aisling Duignan on behalf of her son Freddie and his partners, and the mare is still only 11. Magnitude is also a potential win for Harris Farms, who bought a More Than Ready half-sister, in foal to Omaha Beach, at Keeneland last November for $45,000, while Legacy Ranch gave the same sum for Rockadelic's unraced half-sister by Frosted at Fasig-Tipton last February. They will all be hoping that Magnitude, from here, proves more Dr. Fager than Dr. Carter! Bernardini's Daughters Stamping the Classic Crop It feels incredible that Magnitude should belong to Not This Time's first crop conceived even at $40,000, with his incoming juveniles still sired at no more than $45,000. Seven Grade I winners to date, then, at no more than $15,000! True, not everyone believes that upgraded mares automatically create a corresponding surge in results, but the 2025 market will surely respond to Not This Time's first yearlings as a six-figure cover. The spring when he sired Magnitude was also the one, poignantly, when he passed Bernardini coming down the fee stairwell. Rockadelic's sire, who died that summer, was cut to $35,000 for what proved to be his final season. Rockadelic, while herself an in-house production, was conceived when Bernardini was charging his peak rate of $150,000. But every week brings another rebuke to those who somehow got it into their heads that a horse so accomplished, and beautiful, could ever become unfashionable. La Cara | SV Photography Magnitude is the 99th stakes winner out of a Bernardini mare, who seem to make headlines weekly. A week before Magnitude, it was his 2017 daughter, Cara Caterina, putting La Cara (Street Sense) on the Oaks trail in the Suncoast Stakes. The previous day, his 2015 daughter Terminology was represented by the clock-melting 'TDN Rising Star' Colloquial (Vekoma). Other sophomores with Classic potential out of Bernardini mares include dual Grade I winner Chancer McPatrick, whose dam Bernadreamy emerged from the same crop as Rockadelic; Sovereignty, whose dam Crowned was born the previous year, 11 days after the mother of 'TDN Rising Star' Rapture. And of course, champion Immersive (Nyquist), though sadly off the Classic trail, is out of Bernardini's 2012 daughter Gap Year. Veteran Trainers Drawing on Venerable Bloodlines There's plainly something meaningful, however elusive, in the concept of a “broodmare sire.” But that doesn't alter the fact that many of the most expensive mares at the breeding stock sales, every year, are by left-field sires of minimal commercial clout. Big Brown is hardly a Bernardini, in the sphere, yet his daughter Puca continues to make her $2.9-million purchase by John Stewart at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale look a bargain. With Dornoch (Good Magic) having since joined brother Mage as a Classic winner, Puca's latest sophomore Baeza (McKinzie) is eyeing the GI Santa Anita Derby after breaking his maiden in grand style last week. Baeza | Benoit The $1.2-million yearling, co-owned by CRK Stable and breeder Grandview Equine, is in the very best of hands with John Shirreffs. And another old master bringing along a raw talent is D. Wayne Lukas, whose Caldera (Liam's Map) looked the type to keep thriving when forcing Getaway Car (Curlin) nine lengths clear of their pursuers in the Sunland Park Derby. A fine pinhook by Scanlon Training & Sales ($75,000 July Sale/$500,000 OBS March), Caldera was bred by Don Alberto Corporation out of their homebred mare Send Me On My Way (Tiznow). The latter showed only a little ability in a light career, but she's a half-sister to two graded stakes-placed horses out of a Phipps homebred, Spare Change, who was tried in Grade I company after breaking her maiden at Saratoga. And little wonder, as Spare Change was out of no less a mare than Finder's Fee (Storm Cat), dual Grade I-winning granddaughter of the Phipps foundation mare Blitey (Riva Ridge). Quite a coup, in producing Spare Change, for Finder's Fee to have favored a stallion in only his second year at stud: name of… Bernardini! Finder's Fee had just one other daughter, Receipt (Dynaformer), whose breeding career was in turn sadly curtailed. Her only daughter, however, is none other than Feathered (Indian Charlie), the dam of Flightline (Tapit). A Golden Legacy You didn't think I'd let Chunk of Gold's eye-catching charge for 25 Derby points behind Magnitude pass unremarked? Not after spending so long banging a solitary drum for Preservationist, now sire of 44 winners from 77 starters, including four at stakes level. This beautifully bred horse has given up on the Bluegrass, after covering 11 mares at $5,000 last year, and will hopefully find that Korean breeders aren't quite such sheep. But he has left behind a $2,500 yearling now putting a team of journeymen on the Derby trail. As such, Chunk of Gold could prove another fitting memorial to his late breeder, Brereton C. Jones. That the Governor's legacy is in the best of hands is plain from the fact that Airdrie was prepared to give a horse like Preservationist a chance, while the 19 black-type winners raised in his name, the year after his passing, were surpassed only by a little outfit named Godolphin. But with the overall stallion scene becoming such an unholy mess, it's high time the rest of us also sought to emulate his fearless, free-thinking, far-sighted example. The post Breeding Digest: Octave’s Grandson Hits a High Note appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Take Charge Milady takes on 12 talented 3-year-old fillies in the $500,000 Honeybee Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park Feb. 23. The 1 1/16-mile race offers Road to the Kentucky Oaks points to the top five finishers on a scale of 50-25-15-10-5.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A full field of 14, led by Godolphin's homebred multiple graded winner First Mission, has been entered for the $500,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) Feb. 23 at Oaklawn Park.View the full article
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