A Week of Missteps

This week made me think back. Not back to In Over My Head’s best days, but back to his more frustrating days. Here is one of my not so favorite flashbacks:

http://inovermyheadracehorse.blogspot.com/2009/10/keystone-classic-colossal-letdown.html

I have to say that after reading that post, it conjures up more good memories than bad simply because we were pretty down at that time, but things got better not long after.

Back to the present day.

After the excitement of his 9/21 qualifier that was somewhat doused last week’s rainout we got knocked back a bit more this week. Literally and figuratively. Coming out of the final turn at Balmoral on Wednesday, Mo was sitting behind the leader who suddenly made a break, which caused Mo to jump off stride as well. As good as he has been, Mo was never the type of horse who could handle another horse making a break in front of him. Marcus Miller had to check him up and he did end up pacing to the wire. However, because of what happened, we have to go back and qualify again next week. Looks like our dream of getting In Over My Head back to the races has to be put off a bit longer.

At this point, I’m hoping that history does repeat itself as far as Mo is concerned. In the past, virtually ever time something bad happened in a race, it was followed up with a good race. So, for the next few days, that is exactly what we will be using to stay positive. After last week, I said what is one more week after waiting 20 months…well, we will stick with that mantra yet again.

Let’s go Mo!