Spring is Beginning

Things in Kentucky have been going good. Today is Dubai World Cup day and it looks like it should be a very good day of racing. The Flying Start team and I are doing a forecast for today’s races just like we did for the Breeder’s Cup. Thank god Jennifer Zhou is not participating in this one because she killed us in the Breeder’s Cup. I didn’t get much time to handicap after I woke up this morning, I basically woke up and the guys immediately told me to turn in my choices. I stuck with the home team pretty much, with most of my picks being from America. I’m not doing so well thus far but I have Richard’s Kid in the World Cup and he could make all the difference if he performs like the way I think he should. Thanks to Carl O’Callaghan’s blog on the TDN I’ve been able to follow Richard’s Kid and the American horses a lot more closely.

I’ve just finished another week long rotation at Keeneland with Johnny Burke and had a lot of fun. When I go to the track in the morning, it doesn’t matter what track it is, I feel like I’m returning home. I guess I’m definitely a barn rat. The barn area was starting to fill up last week with the horses shipping in for the meet and the two-year-olds arriving for the sale. It looks like there are some very nice two-year-olds in this sale as I watched them train in the mornings. I’m interested in seeing how they breeze on Wednesday and then looking at them more closely later on in the week. I’ll be attending the sale with Donato Lanni and I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to learn from him.

This Sunday night I start my two weeks of foal watch. I’m more of an early bird than a night owl, so I’m not particularly looking forward to this. I wish mare’s foaled out in the morning’s more often but that’s not how nature works. I’m very interested in learning about the foaling process though, I’ve never had the opportunity to foal out a mare. So, overall I think I will gain a lot from the experience of doing foal watch at Gainsborough. Congratulations to Carl O’Callaghan on the win with Kinsale King.