Take care of the horse, the horse will take care of you… Farfellow Farms reached out to claim their homebred Impossible Task to give him a home forever and rewards them with an 8l victory @DelMarRacing under @JockeyHerrera in a swift 1’36!Congrats Kip and Jack. Thanks for caring
@awillywit@SaraChristineG great answer. Also, not technically a CA horse, but really happy w/Reef Runner's performance in the turf sprint. Really cool to see his success the last few in California (and especially considering the wild circumstances of his win with Armando Ayuso at Santa Anita last out!)
@rich_halvey@EJXD2@BreedersCup I feel the same. Del Mar is fine, but Santa Anita beats it by miles. Tons of room, incredible sight lines from a million different spots on the track, and the San Gabriels! Very strange when people can't (don't want to...) acknowledge that.
@Horseguru24334@SwiftHitter I'm 100% with you on parking. I know it's a small, stupid thing but it matters. That's why I love Santa Anita (and Los Al!!) and hate Del Mar.
@ClairVo63693073@TRB2024@RepoleStable what both of you are saying is the #1 issue facing the *future* of horse racing by *far* and nothing else is close. Wild I had to scroll this far to see it. Whether PETA is right or wrong is immaterial; it's the fact that nearly every single person under 30 *thinks* it's abuse.
@maxsowers@SwiftHitter Wrona has really grown on me. QH races are what they are, but the mixed-breed short track oval races are a lot of fun, and his calls make them really fun.
@thoroughbredbet@SwiftHitter exactly! The product at Santa Anita is so watered down too often, sadly. But the place itself... wonderful. (I'm biased because my neighborhood in LA is the Art Deco capital of the world but man, I love the architecture and feel at Santa Anita. Not to mention the sight lines.)
@thoroughbredbet@SwiftHitter great take and you are correct. Santa Anita is such a cool place. So much history. But I feel like I'm crazy when everybody else I know loves Del Mar. Place sucks!
Forever Young may be one of the stars of The Saudi Cup but Ten Happy Rose isn't to be surrendering the spotlight ahead of the 1351 Turf Sprint presented by Boutique Group
#TheSaudiCup
Every racehorse should be born with a 401(k). Contribute to it as they grow, train, race etc. Then when they retire, guess who has a retirement account!
Bittersweet moment as Anisette sells @keenelandsales for $1,800,000 Extremely grateful to @EclipseTBP for putting their trust in us to develop her into a Triple Gr1 winner and the 👸of California Turf Racing. Wishing Anisette and her new connections a bright future.