Fucking Arrogate. Fucking Ar-ro-gate.

(And I hate that I hate him, because he is a good horse and that was bloody amazing. He's got his Dubai win now. Broke badly, dead last, had to go wide, and somehow he still pulled it off by lengths. But I just can't love him. Not after what he did to my Chromie!)

One more new world fairytale, that's all about the glitter and gold, and not a lecture about wolves and the wood ( Read more... )

Moment of the Year - Dubai World Cup (Alchemy, as Chrome turns to gold...)
Older Dirt Male
Horse. Of. The. Year.

Chrome. Forever.

(Though I think somewhere between Older Dirt Male and HOTY, Perry went back to the table and started drinking his nerves away. lol.)

One more. One more week, one more run...

The race was made for him. Not in the sense that it was the perfect race for him to run in, but because the track added it to their program speciically for him. Because his trainer wanted a prep race before his final start, and because even though it's his home track, where he trains, he's never run in a race there. His fans come out to see him in ( Read more... )

I made it all the way to call to the post without my nerves sproinging apart like overtightened wires. But now everyone's saddled and up and turning onto the track, and there isn't quite enough oxygen in this room ( Read more... )

On the way back to the barn after winning last year's Belmont Oaks, an unbeaten turf horse named Lady Eli stepped on a nail and developed laminitis in both front feet. Life-threatening for any horse (we know that all too well, don't we); for a racehorse, almost certainly career-ending ( Read more... )

Beholder over Songbird, by a fraction of a nose. They hit the wire together for a photo finish, and it came down to nothing more than a matter of whio had the head-bob at just the right time. If it had been any closer, it could have been a dead heat. Which would have ben awesome, because then neither would have to lose. >_> But both my girls, on ( Read more... )

Belmont Day ( Read more... )

Plans were for Nyquist to go ahead and run back in the Belmont, because the team wanted to stay the course even if there was no Crown on the line (which I have SO much respect for), but he ran a fever of 102 and when they pulled a white cell count, it was high, so no race for him. Not right now. He'll be back for the summer, and probably better ( Read more... )

Wet over Pimlico. At Churchill, it poured before the Derby but cleared up by post time, but this is rain for an Ark, for the kind of track Pharoah would have loved. (That, from the way he ran at Santa Anita, Exaggerator loves.) Nyquist hasn't run on a truly sloppy track yet, but he HAS won at six different tracks at different lengths and on ( Read more... )