Must go to Paul Nipperess and "After Graham" who won his race at the Sunshine Coast today. AG, who is by Lochrae, was ridden by Brad Pengelly in Race 5 over 2200m. WELL DONE BOTH PAUL AND DARCY!!
See, every horse is a star, given a chance... and it doesn't matter whether it is a maiden at Euchuca or The Melbourne Cup itself. It's good to see Paul with another knotch on the board since moving up to Toowoomba.
I received an email today asking me in my opinion, how can you get a horse (and by that I mean a young horse), to mature - quickly. Do you keep on keeping on... and basically just keep them on racing until they finally "get it?" We have learned so much from Susie gal in that respect. Susie is by Red Anchor out of a Seventh Hussar mare - with her breeding you would think that she would get a distance. That maybe so, however, Red Anchor progeny dont make 2 or 3 year olds, it actually takes them until Year 4 to get their heads together, and we have seen this with Susie who finally in her last preparation with Paul, before her accident, showed that she understood what it means to be a racehorse and still be sweet about it.
I guess that is the key with all of them, no matter how young or old, the trick is to keep them sweet in mind to keep racing and doing their best.
In my response to my friend I answered one word, "time". You just can't rush something like this and there is no short answer (I bet she wished she never asked the question in the first place!) and with every horse different in nature, there is no set time for them to obtain "maturity". I will be interested to see what they do with their youngster who hasnt been having much luck of late. Hmmm.
It's funny, I can look at all the yearlings that are at Massie Lodge and I can possibly see only one or maybe two that at a stretch has a glimmer of "maturity" - but that's ok, they're only expected to be babies at this point in time. Nothing more, nothing less.
Tomorrow.
Hmm. Back to work and it is a very short week (thank goodness I reckon). Evan and I have been talking about doing a bit of a reshuffle with the girlys and it will be a big day for him, including a visit from Adam to take off Susie and Sunny's shoes.
Iam actually sitting outside in the lounge room composing this post at Evan's computer while he has his feet up on the lounge munching on some dinner and having a few beers - the four dogs (including Millie) have made themselves very comfortable on the lounges with Evan, watching a Mickey Rooney movie on TCM. I have one more check on the mums-to-be before settling down with my family to watch some tv. Life is good, isnt it?
Helen.
See, every horse is a star, given a chance... and it doesn't matter whether it is a maiden at Euchuca or The Melbourne Cup itself. It's good to see Paul with another knotch on the board since moving up to Toowoomba.
I received an email today asking me in my opinion, how can you get a horse (and by that I mean a young horse), to mature - quickly. Do you keep on keeping on... and basically just keep them on racing until they finally "get it?" We have learned so much from Susie gal in that respect. Susie is by Red Anchor out of a Seventh Hussar mare - with her breeding you would think that she would get a distance. That maybe so, however, Red Anchor progeny dont make 2 or 3 year olds, it actually takes them until Year 4 to get their heads together, and we have seen this with Susie who finally in her last preparation with Paul, before her accident, showed that she understood what it means to be a racehorse and still be sweet about it.
I guess that is the key with all of them, no matter how young or old, the trick is to keep them sweet in mind to keep racing and doing their best.
In my response to my friend I answered one word, "time". You just can't rush something like this and there is no short answer (I bet she wished she never asked the question in the first place!) and with every horse different in nature, there is no set time for them to obtain "maturity". I will be interested to see what they do with their youngster who hasnt been having much luck of late. Hmmm.
It's funny, I can look at all the yearlings that are at Massie Lodge and I can possibly see only one or maybe two that at a stretch has a glimmer of "maturity" - but that's ok, they're only expected to be babies at this point in time. Nothing more, nothing less.
Tomorrow.
Hmm. Back to work and it is a very short week (thank goodness I reckon). Evan and I have been talking about doing a bit of a reshuffle with the girlys and it will be a big day for him, including a visit from Adam to take off Susie and Sunny's shoes.
Iam actually sitting outside in the lounge room composing this post at Evan's computer while he has his feet up on the lounge munching on some dinner and having a few beers - the four dogs (including Millie) have made themselves very comfortable on the lounges with Evan, watching a Mickey Rooney movie on TCM. I have one more check on the mums-to-be before settling down with my family to watch some tv. Life is good, isnt it?
Helen.
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