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Do not read if you can't stand rediculas amounts of pride :)


Well we had our first "Allowance" winner the other day Lisa's Testimonial sauntered around until the 3/4 post and then found another gear!

That brings T's kid's over the quarter million dollar mark, pretty darn good considering he only has 11 runners :) Man I love my boy!

Now if I could only somehow manage to bred a "Stakes" horse..... I know only 3 % of breeders ever get that elusive horse :) I think 3% pretty good odds don't you :)
 
Congratulations! Was this a yearling sales purchase? Do you raise thoroughbreds yourself? Can you post the win pic? Where did the horse race? Can you answer 20 questions? :mrgreen:
 
Congrats Judith! I love horse racing, but haven't been around it since I was a kid with a friend whose folks had a racehorse.
 
Bward, Yup I can answer 20 questions :) She was sold as a yearling ( Judith smacks head again but is developing a callous there so it is not so bad :) I have a filly this year than people will have to pry out of my cold dead hands as she is NOT going through the sales :) Yes I raise the babies myself. umm what was the last question? O Yah....No I dont have a win picture as I dont own her and she raced at Finger Lakes ( I think)

To the rest of you than you! Thanks :)
 
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This was our most favorite race horse and yes she was home bred too. Her mother was 16.2 and for some reason "Frosty" ended up just being shy of 15 hands. However she had great solid legs and a huge heart and although she was a bottom claimer she always tried so hard. She had to peddle 3 times faster than her longer legged cohorts. We raced her for 3 years and she was only out of the money once. They laughed at us when we unloaded Frosty at the track and she proved them wrong. Then they laughed even harder when we told them to race her at a mile. She proved them wrong again and a mile to a mile and a sixteenth was her favorite distance and she loved to come from behind. ( pretty much how Street Sense did yesterday. She was always thrilling to watch.

Her brother whom everyone thought would be a stakes horse had bullet works and a ton of speed. However he was weak of heart and lacked courage and failed to live up to his expectations. Thats horse racing. If they don't have the guts for it you have nuthin.
 
You know, I find the little ones have bones of titanium. They seem to be little bullets. Then you get these great huge monsters that take 5 years to mature. Nope I like the little fillies the best. Lilya is FULL of P and V and should make one heck of a runner. She is BAD, BAD and has a temper! I find those ones make great runners but man can the early years be ...um...er...fun :)
 
Congrats on your horse Judith. Bragging is in order, especially when you raised him. I worked at Edmonton and Calgary tracks with both standardbreds (pacers) and thoroughbreds years ago. I know how good a feeling it is when your horse does well. I was too big for riding a thoroughbred but drove standardbreds a lot. That was a hoot. And talk about tough. We'd take them on 10 mile jogs around the track every day, and that was just a warmup for further conditioning.Maybe one day I'll shake this roping bug and get back into this again when I get older.
 
I didnt raise Testimonial :) He's an ole KY bred :) But I love the fact that we are blessed enough to have his presence grace our corner of the world :)
 
I am thinking everybody on ranchers could pool their money and get one of judith racehorses,she could absorb the expenses with her other horses and send us all a monthly profit check :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
LOL, Yup that would work. Seeings as I keep SELLING the dang ones that are making OTHER people money. ARRRRRRGHGGGGGGG
 

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