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[ h e l l o + g o o d b y e ]
This isn't a decision I've come to lightly, but after giving it nearly a month of thought, I've come to the conclusion that LJ no longer meets my needs. I'm sad to let it go, considering how much time and money I've spent here, but at this point in time, I feel it's the most appropriate choice. I won't be deleting my account, and I will continue ( Read more... ) -
Hnnnfffhhgghh
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!) -
Timing.
(Would have been more fitting if it had been today, but.)
Nicanor, the full brother to the late 2006 Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (G1) winner Barbaro, had his first winner when Joseph Beseker's Nicamore sped to a 2 1/4 length victory in a Jan. 28 Laurel Park maiden claiming race.
(I hadn't heard anything about Nicky in years until just -
[ y o u r h o o v e s :: m y h e a r t ]
Ten years. -
......
He was nowhere. Nowhere. He matched Arrogate at the beginning, but then they hit the stretch, and suddenly he just started losing more and more ground. I saw Victor look behind him and was almost wondering if Chrome had taken a bad step and Victor might pull him up, but it looked like he finished and was trotting out, so...I don't know. I don't ( Read more... ) -
One more fairytale
One more new world fairytale, that's all about the glitter and gold, and not a lecture about wolves and the wood ( Read more... ) -
[ c r a z y . d i a m o n d ]
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... -
(be)Late(d) 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... ) -
- shine for me -
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... ) -
Argh head-bobs
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... )