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Notable Returns

Last seen finishing nearly 24 lengths behind Asiatic Boy in the 2007 UAE Derby, Nashua Stakes winner Day Pass returns in the second at Gulfstream on Sunday. Once more in trainer Kiaran McLaughlin’s barn, the colt starts in the 7-furlong OC/N2X off a string of decent works, including two recent bullets at Palm Meadows, and goes back on Lasix.
At Santa Anita, Florida Derby runner-up Notional makes his first start since last March in the 6 1/2-furlong Daytona. The downhill turf handicap came up a tough comeback spot for the 4-year-old, who is also making his turf debut, with Desert Code, dropping out of graded stakes company and winner of two over the course, and Night Chapter, winner of the 2007 Daytona, among the 12 starters.

Posted in Horses on February 16, 2008

$16M Dud Heads to Stud

With a record of 3-0-0-1 and earnings of $10,240, The Green Monkey has been retired to stand stud at Hartley-De Renzo Thoroughbreds of Florida in 2009. The farm plans to build the 4-year-old Forestry colt his own barn and is considering offering tours to visitors interested in seeing the priciest thoroughbred ever purchased at auction:

“I think people would like to see him,” De Renzo said. “He’s a pretty special horse. His price was the most expensive in history, and he is a part of Thoroughbred history” (Blood-Horse).

No fee for The Green Monkey’s services has been set yet, but De Renzo said it would be “reasonable” in hopes of attracting good mares.
Related: The Green Monkey has his very own, and very catchy, song. You’re 16/Unrefundable/And you’re mine …

Posted in Horses on February 11, 2008

Magnificent Manifestation

The funniest thing I’ve read in weeks:

The awestruck populace listened in rapt attention to the words of the great horse’s spirit as he urged the people to remove their metaphorical blinders and open their eyes to the world around them; to never put too much weight on their sesamoid and long pastern bones; and to remember that Barbaro Day is not just the day that Barbaro died, but the day that human beings learned to put their differences aside and treat one another as they would want a 1,200-pound racehorse to be treated.

[Thanks, Dana.]
More poignantly, Jon White imagines what might have been if Barbaro had never been injured in the Preakness. I’m with him, right up to the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Invasor would have totally beaten Barbaro, if the two had had a chance to meet on the track.

Posted in Horses on January 31, 2008

No Pressure, Guys

Glenye Cain Oakford reports that Barbaro’s little brothers are progressing well, with 2-year-old Nicanor in early training at a Florida farm and “unnamed yearling” still gamboling in a Kentucky pasture.

Posted in Horses on January 20, 2008

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