The final Saturday of the year saw a lot of walkovers, most by Paints, but also a couple of stakes victories.

The 2yo homebred mid colt Shaft of Sunlight got his first stakes victory, as did the 3yo route gelding Weapon Unleashed, who was scoring his third win in a row.

The only placing was via 3yo homebred Quarter Horse route filly Boundiful68: ( Read more... )

This drab-looking week ended with an incredible bang.

Only one stakes win, but it was a doozy.  Steward-bred 4yo turf route colt Morning Becomes apparently appreciated being dropped back to ten furlongs, and he came up the rail to score a length victory in the Grade 1 Hong Kong Turf Cup, with a career-best 87 fig, for my first ever Grade 1 victory ( Read more... )

9: 4-1-0 for 44% wins and 56% OTB.  Earnings of 27k.

That felt good!

Sometime recently, I hit a stable record 280 maiden wins, eclipsing the mark of 273 from Year 41.  Need seven more 2yo victories to top the mark of 201 from last year.

The 3yo homebred Paint route filly Secret Assassin got her second stakes victory of the year.

Seconds went to 3yo homebred Quarter Horse sprint gelding El Fire Dust, 3yo homebred Paint sprint filly Feathered Cog, 3yo homebred Quarter Horse filly Icy Mood, and 3yo homebred Quarter Horse route colt Road WarThirds went to a pair of homebred 5yos -- ( Read more... )

Bleh.

One horse claimed for 1k.

5: 0-0-1 for 20% OTB.  Earnings of 4k.

So, I sponsored a Grade 3 stakes for my homebred AW mile geldings, 4yo Powered On and 5yo Holiday Victory, to see who would be named for the Pegasus Cup next year; or, rather, to validate my decision to run Powered On.  The race only confused the issue, because Holiday Victory went wire-to-wire, while his stablemate could only get third.  Still, I ( Read more... )

Got two encore stakes winners, both 4yo homebred mids getting their second stakes victories of the season.  This was Paint colt Boone Splash and Quarter Horse gelding Ghost Inquiry.

Third was 6yo homebred Paint route gelding Science SecretTrotters had a badly-needed terrific day, getting four wins from eight starters ( Read more... )

Whoo hoo!  Another big milestone.

The 3yo Steward-bred turf mile filly Seattle Sound beat older fillies and mares in the Grade 1 Japanese Mile, and therefore becomes my fifth Grade 1 stakes winner this season, a new record, and this is also the seventh Grade 1 victory for the season, which is also a new record.  It's such a wonderful thing to have ( Read more... )

Three horses, including a winner, were claimed for a total of $9500, two for quite a number of shakes.

15: 2-4-2 for 13% wins, 53% OTB, and earnings of 27k.

With results tonight, I went under 20% wins for the year, but I hope I can get back to that mark by year's end.

The incredible 9yo homebred Arabian route gelding Kalri Lake took a sponsored stakes to be my second most winning horse, with 15 victories, second only to War Lock's 17.  He has eleven stakes victories, including two this year ( Read more... )