Slow and Steady

“Slow and steady wins the race!” Marge Simpson (yes, I mean the cartoon character)

I can’t say I agree with Marge on that one, especially when it comes to horse racing. Marge would not make a very good horse owner, although she would be thriving in our current situation. Slow and steady…hopefully will get us back to the races.

We actually have some small good news to report. In Over My Head continues to work his way back down into race shape. He has officially trained past the point he was at in Florida before he had a flare up of his suspensory injury. We’d like to thank the Leonards who have provided him a roof over his head, a pool to swim in and a track to jog on until Tyler Butenschoen gets back from Florida to open up the farm. Today, he will go his second training mile with a target time of around 2:50. Still a long ways to go, yet a long ways from where he started. We are kind of in the middle. If (and that is one enormous ‘if’) he can progress at this pace, he could be racing by mid to late June.

An interesting story form the world of harness racing. The owner of Hypnotic Blue Chip (arguably the top open pacer in world) has challenged St. Elmo’s Hero to a match race. ‘Hero’ is a late bloomer on a 24 race win streak. It would be quite a fun thing to watch, but it seems like Hero’s owners aren’t interested. Maybe Mo can come back to his old form someday and we can take the challenge! Link to the story is below:

http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=41812&z=1

In Showtime Shark news, he is finally out of the stall and back jogging. His freak injury (if you remember, he kicked a stall with his back right leg, breaking his coffin bone) has healed and he is sound again. The vets tell us he should have no long term negative effects form the injury. He just needs to stop being a knucklehead when not on the track. Timeline for Mr. Seeknee’s return is roughly August. Imagine, we have a chance to have both of these horses racing by late summer. We’ll see…one week at a time.