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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
It will be a busy day at the GI Preakness S. for the West Point Thoroughbreds team as they have four horses entered on the day at Pimlico. But none is more important than Sandman (Tapit), a horse they co-own along with DJ Stable, St. Elias Stable and CJ Stables. He finished seventh in the GI Kentucky Derby, but his owners have decided to give him a chance to make amends. Despite there being only being two weeks between the first two legs of the Triple Crown, Sandman will run in Saturday's Preakness. To talk about Sandman, the Preakness, the Triple Crown and other subjects, West Point Founder and President Terry Finley joined the team on this week's TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland. He was the Gainesway Guest of the Week. Originally, the connections had said they were going to pass the Preakness and point for the GI Belmont S. What changed their minds? “(Trainer) Mark (Casse) just felt like it was a good spot to go in with the way everything developed and, obviously, the Derby winner not coming,” said Finley. So I think he put two and two together. I look at the really top-end horsemen across the country and I think there are people that don't mind changing their minds. Mark is a Hall of Famer and in Mark Casse we trust. I was really glad to hear that we were going in the Preakness.” Even though Sandman is one of only three Derby starters to come back in the Preakness, Finley has joined the camp that believes the Triple Crown needs to be changed with more time between the races. “I've evolved,” he said. “I try to stay away from people that are absolutely against evolving in their thoughts and their outlooks. And I've evolved here. At first, I really didn't think it was the right thing to do. Looking at what's happened the last couple of years, we'd be better off running in the beginning of May, the beginning of June and the beginning of July. I'd love to hear from NYRA on this. But it would only add a couple of weeks, right? Instead of it being a five-week series, it would be an eight or nine-week series. I don't think that puts us in a position where we lose all. I understand and acknowledge that there are very valid reasons on really both sides of the question. But ultimately, it's time for our game to change. We know that we don't run our horses as much as we used to. If we don't change, I think this will happen again and again and again.” Finley teamed up with America's Best Racing to bring social media influencer Griffin Johnson aboard for Derby week. Johnson was given a 2.5 percent interest in the horse and was asked to promote Sandman, the Derby and racing in general during Derby week on his many social media accounts. Young, articulate and likeable, Johnson was a huge hit. “He was a powerful force overall. I think we all saw it,” Finley said. “You can't really have somebody parachute in the week of the Derby and throw some things up on social media and expect the storm that we had over the last couple of weeks with Griffin. You have to have somebody who's really dedicated, who's into the process and has been there for a sustained period of time. “Griffin joined the ownership group last spring after we bought this colt at the OBS sale,” Finley said. “And he's been really involved at every step of the way. I think about the times where we didn't run well and he was still upbeat and he still wanted to learn and kind of explore the fields and the races and the strategy and the rides and everything else. So I think very quickly I saw that this influencer was really different from the others that I've experienced and that I was aware of. So look, I've said it to a couple of people. There's a reason why he's come into our industry. But our job now is to take advantage of this. We're going to get him another horse. I mean, he's forced me to give him another horse, which is fine. He's so he's so motivated. Griffin said to me that influencers can make a big difference and they have. He also said this is the first time he's been in a situation and have been affiliated with an industry that he's really, really been passionate about.” In our “Fastest Horse of the Week,” segment, which is sponsored by WinStar, the home of the stallion Heartland, Randy Moss revealed that the fastest horse of the week was GII Man o'War S. winner Far Bridge (English Channel), who earned a 99 Beyer. Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the KTOB, the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders' Association, West Point Thoroughbreds, 1/ST Racing and 1/ST TV, the team of Moss, Zoe Cadman and Bill Finley went through the whole Preakness field horse by horse. All three agreed that Journalism should win and that Clever Again (American Pharaoh) is the main threat. To watch podcast, click here. For an audio version of the show, click here. The post Terry Finley Joins TDN Writers’ Room Podcast to Discuss Preakness Starter Sandman 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
An attorney for track operator Churchill Downs Inc. told the Louisiana Racing Commission May 13 that Fair Grounds Race would not proceed with its 2025-26 meet without legislative relief, according to published reports.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Due to unsafe track conditions caused by the inclement weather, Delaware Park has cancelled the opening day race card scheduled for May 14.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Journalism may be in the record books as the seventh straight beaten favorite in the Kentucky Derby (G1), but that doesn't mean trainer Michael McCarthy has lost any faith in his grade 1-winning 3-year-old colt. View the full article
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