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As a regular at GPD, Sosa was always so much fun to watch. He was one of the best around. He rode Al Faatik of course, who my friends in central OR now stand at stud. Such a huge loss to our racing community in the PNW… Rest In Peace

Orb benefitted from a pace meltdown when they decided to put blinkers on Palace Malice and he ran lights out at the start.

What made Zenyatta great was that she consistently outran pace and surfaces biases to score... I agree I would have liked to see her against males more but I think she proved emphatically she could run circles around them too. Just a slight misjudgment by Smith in the 2010 Classic. Let’s appreciate both mares for their greatness.

It seems that people are forgetting Maxfield has suffered two injuries and layoffs where Charlatan has been off once... obviously they are going to be more careful with him, and aren’t going to throw him in a huge spot second off the layoff, they need to build him up and ask a little more with a second start off the second layoff. He did look strong in the Tenacious though. He’s really developed some early speed and we all know he can sit way back and pounce. A horse like that is dangerous and near impossible to beat because he makes his own trip.

The only question that matters. But yes, did hear he’s gotten sick. This poor horse cannot catch a break.

Here’s a link to my stallion running barrels. Thought you might enjoy! https://fb.watch/2OApvXfElg/

I’m already NOT looking forward to him being white! He was born seal bay so I’ve had a nice slow grey. He’s 7 this year and still pretty dark compared to most greys. Gosh he has the best mind. I have him in a barn full of mares and he can touch noses with many of them, he’s just so kind. Always been trainable, I’ve broken 3 including him by Judge Cash and they all were that way. Very willing individuals. He walks in the gate flat footed before a run. Had very few like that that could be at top speed in a second. He rides like a reiner to me but when you ask it’s push button, he just gives it. This guy is about 15.1 and he’s got good girth to him, I have bigger than him in the barn though, including a 16.2 hand gelding by Leaving Memories. Dude is massive! Mare chipped on the track. They never removed it. She has some boney changes but gets around on it just fine. I’m ashamed they didn’t do the 1500-2000 surgery when she was 3 and it would’ve worked, with a clean knee she was easily a $6,000 broodmare but instead they gave her away to me instead... her sire died young and entered stud at $6500 and has since moved to private treaty. She had 4 foals previously. We are out in Oregon not ten minutes from Grants Pass Downs (new revamp in the absence of Portland Meadows) We get all ours young or raise them ourselves! Minus some broodmares of course. I got the stallion when he was 11 months old. Agreed the reiners and cutters go too hard too fast with the torque on their joints. Work is good for a young horse’s bones but the constant turning and stopping is not. Barrel racers don’t futurity until 4 or 5. 5 or 6 being considered a Derby horse. I’m not huge on Frenchmans Guy myself as far as running the barrels (I think they are hit or miss on if they are top caliber or just lower divisional jackpot horses) but as far as hardy using lines go I really like the Fire Water Flit. I’m happy to have an own daughter of him in foal to my guy, those are getting hard and harder to come by considering his stud fee and the whole ICSI process. We are pretty specialized with the whole barrel racing thing but our horses have good minds and I've consistently used them for other things. Back in high school I did some breakaway roping and goat tying, as well as pole bending. Everyone takes a trail ride and loves it! That More Than Ready should be nice. Can’t say I know who Demarchelier is, though... best of luck!

Goodman, I’ve currently got 2 broodmares I own, 2 leased, and I own my own stallion. All are bred to run on the track but we train them to run barrels. Two of the broodmares are off the track, one has a record. The other never got to start (hurt herself in the stall). These names may not mean much to you, but my stallion is an upcoming son of Judge Cash out of a producing daughter of Blushing Bug. My mares: Fire Water Flit x Rocket Wranger mare Valiant Hero x Mr Procrastinator (TB) mare Ocean Runaway x Mr Greeley (TB) mare & Chicks Slew Of Bux (son of Chicks Beduino) out of a Nublado (TB) mare That last mare also tails to Louisiana Slew on the sire side, son of Seattle Slew. He had a positive impact on racing QH’s. I wish I had more LS bred, but said mare does have two daughters now, so it’ll have to do :) Here’s my AAA running and producing Ocean Runaway mare, out of a race winning daughter of Mr. Greeley. (The bay) I just bought her earlier this year. The grey is my stallion. I tried to post this a day ago but it still says “pending” on my account so we are giving it another go. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/08f8b304c8a02fde3d1213350f2386353053775856c00d44bd24ec3768d3df1f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f833e8aa36178c41bcdab54d026e51765da6524c1cc04db333018bc6098f5e26.jpg

Hey HRN, why are all my recent comments “pending?”

Ha! Fair enough.