Y16 February Week 4

[Cruisey]

GRADE TWO DIRT
WIN Baciami 
PLACE Meritorious
show Lethal Dose

[Holly]

Grade Four Dirt Sprint - G4 6F D
Win: Sophie's Pride (neck)
Place: Dark Maiden

Mai had the early speed. What an incredible mare.  She held it just until the final furlong. Lyra just cruised on by her. This was Lyra's race today.

Grade Four Dirt - G4 10F D
Win: Ghostly Girl
Place: Beyond the Lies

Ghost easily broke from the gate. Leah was gaining on her as they rounded the final turn. Ghost held on for the win. Leah will get another win soon. Ghost just had an edge on her this time around.

[creativecause]

GRADES ONE + TWO DIRT SPRINT - G1 6F D
Win: Siren Call (head)
place: Lilith Wind
show: Secret Success

[creativecause]

GRADE THREE DIRT SPRINT - G3 6F D
Win: Valine
place: Doubloon Moon
show: Quick Silver

[S u N f r O s t ~]

*Ripley*, I'll look into your suggestion for Trin...I'm willing to try anything with her right now lol.

Will judge some races later if I find the time!

[Kenren]

GRADE FIVE DIRT SPRINT - G5 6F D
WIN Simba
PLACE Escape Artist
SHOW Urgent Appeal

[Kenren]

GRADE FIVE TURF - G5 10F T
WIN Ensignia
PLACE Justa Little Cutie
SHOW Final Judgement

[rendezvous]

Kenren

Feedback on Escape Artist's placement?

[Kenren]

GRADE FIVE DIRT - G5 10F D
WIN Fire It Up
PLACE Animatia
SHOW Sylvanite
fourth Phoenix Inferno

I legitimately love Phoenix Inferno, but he was beat out on age in this one.

Ren: You should put the dates of the races next to them in the results, 'cause there are penalties for racing too often and such and I'm definitely not looking back to see when the races were run xD

[Kenren]

The winner is four, the other two were three, and so this early in the year there wasn't any type of class or pace situation to give either younger horse a bump.

[rendezvous]

Kenren

I never knew that we were supposed to put dates on them. All dates and which horses were raced can be found on my pages racing plans, I'll start noting that link on all their pages.

I wish I had known the dates needed to be there, I didn't want to be penalized for it :,/ So far I haven't attempted to run my horse more 2 weeks in a row

[Kenren]

It's best just to out them somewhere on the results directly as the others do, because even if it's linked that's still kind of a pain to have to look up separately. It's just a cursory glance that we need, but recency of different results can help as easily as they can hurt - if a horse is on a roll, that can easily be taken into consideration. It's just kind of accommodating to the people judging.

[S u N f r O s t ~]

GRADE ONE DIRT - G1 10F D
win Ultimate Revenge
place Coco Cabana

[S u N f r O s t ~]

GRADE ONE TURF - G1 10F T
win Take Flight
place Stalking The Stars
show Desert Amber

This was a very evenly matched field...all of these horses are absolutely flourishing and I think we're in for many rematches among them this season. Really impressive bunch.

An avenging Take Flight continued his streak here against these mares. He was the most battle hardened at this level and took it by a nose in the end. Very very close between Stalking The Stars and Desert Amber - both of these mares have hit a whole new level this year.

[S u N f r O s t ~]

GRADE THREE TURF - G3 10F T
win Proteus Prince
place Summer Romance
show Vetanda
fourth Mardi Gras

[rendezvous]

S u N f r O s t ~

feedback on Mardi Gras being last

[S u N f r O s t ~]

rendezvous

The top two were clear to me. Vetanda and Mardi Gras were close. In all honestly, somebody had to place last, and Vetanda came across a little bit stronger to me today. Mardi Gras strikes me as the mare that needs a good consistent season under her belt and may benefit from an additional season at six as she builds off this season. You're doing nothing wrong.

[Sammy]

GRADE THREE DIRT - G3 10F D
Win: Passionate God
Place: Honorary
Show: Fleet Street

I felt Passionate God was the strongest here today Honorary was solid behind Passionate God someone had to be placed third and that today was Fleet Street.

[creativecause]

GRADE FIVE TURF SPRINT - G5 6F T
Win: Game Over
Place: Faded Dreams
Show: Wings Of Jayde
4th: Moonstorm

All very nice horses with VERY similar records. So it came down to running style and personality. This race could have gone anyway, these horses are all so closely matched that it was incredibly difficult to place them in any order.