This blog has always been a blow by blow take on what it is like to own a racehorse and luckily for me, it has been pretty easy to keep this exciting. However, you may have noticed that I haven’t put up a new blog in weeks. Well, I’m doing that to spare you from an unfortunately slow time in the Mo’s world. He continues to stand in his stall and heal, anxiously awaiting the opportunity to run around and in the words of Doc Smith from “Seabiscuit”, just ‘be a horse again.’.
We were treated with a nice bit of optimistic news early this week when we got the results form the most recent scan (x-ray) of his bad leg. Our vet said that it was healing extremely well and the ligament fibers are showing now signs of scar tissue, which is vital to an effective healing of this type of injury. He also stated that our plan to let Mother Nature do her work over the rest of this year and early next year is the formula Mo would need for him to have any shot at comeback #2. While are certainly not hell bent on a comeback (like we kind of were last time), we are still hopeful. The tear was much less dramatic than last time, so it is not at all unreasonable to think that he might hit the track next summer. Either way, it was fun to think that we might be able to put our ‘Team In Over My Head’ t-shirts on again for a race.
In other news, we continue to reach out to people about options for Mo to stand as a stallion this breading season. Given the fact we will likely try one more comeback, location of where he stands is pretty important and given the fact his home is in Marrengo, standing in Illinois is likely the best option.
There are a number of issues with standing Mo. The first is his I Am A Fool bloodline is not nearly as favorable as say a Western Hanover or Artsplace. However, the sire bloodline is certainly no guaranty of success. Take the Illinois sire Yankee Skyscraper for example. His offspring have really not performed at a high level, nor have they sold well starting this year. From my personal perspective, the state of Illinois is in need of a new sire. The issue is that since Governor Quinn vetoed the gambling expansion bill, Illinois racing remains somewhat in purgatory and new investment in the state’s racing program is going to be limited. Well, I have the solution for you Illinois based breeders and his name is In Over My Head. He is the PERFECT physical specimen of a horse. If you don’t believe me, just head out to Marengo and take a look. If he stamps his offspring with any of his looks, they will extremely well. He has the prefect temperament and is extremely intelligent. The speed he showed on the track along with his winning percentage speaks for itself. Given the fact that facts are facts (he is an I Am A Fool), we will be offering him at very reasonable price. The final figure is still too be determined, but it will be below anything else out there to entice breeders to give him a shot.
And for all your skeptical Illinois based horsemen and women out there who are still unsure of this whole I Am A Fool bloodline what about Shadow’s Finale? I realize that Incredible Finale won over a million on the track, but he didn’t have much of a bloodline at all and produced a TON of big time Illinois talents. If Mo could produce a fraction of that he’d be a big success.
Anyway, that’s my pro Mo rant for the day. Thanks to all of those who keep checking in. I’ll try and do more writing.
