Post-Holiday posting...
I sure didn’t leave much time to write. Seems like before I leave for work, I’m all up, my nerves are all jangly and ready-to go (even if it’s work that I don’t feel like going to). At that time, however, nothing has happened to write about so there’s no reason to be sitting here. My head is often empty of events and opinions about anything.
Then, when I have finished my work for the day, I’m usually full of all that has happened, but I’m also crashing from my two-cup tea habit and ready to nap. As soon as I get home, I eat something and lie down. Once I’m up, it’s all over. I’m empty-headed again.
I noticed in the results this morning that one of my earlier favorite horses, I’ll call him Phoenix (because when he had a trainer switch, he improved tremendously), finished third last night. What a gallant fellow! He’s had a lot of bad luck. He missed out on some specific care for a long time, that the new trainer (I’ll call him Cal) has managed to provide. When Cal first got the horse, he reversed his performance almost completely; after getting beaten double digits repeatedly, he ran second. Then he had an injury leaving the starting gate, and he hasn’t been 100% since. Last night he felt good enough to run third, and I am proud of both him and Cal.
I’d like to speak more openly about my horses and people, but because most of my horses run in claimers, I don’t want this column to become a place where people scout for horses to claim. I also have an aversion to being deceiving in it, because that would produce no lasting benefit for the industry, my credibility, the horse, and my friends. So as strange as my names sound to me, I guess that’ the way I have to do it. Some I will be able to speak about, I think, but certainly not all.
I’m supposed to work for Burkle today. He's been off two days and at his request, I have collected Saturday and Sunday's programs to give to him. The idea behind having the programs is to mark down who made money each evening and then see which of those people owes the tack store. It's never a bad time to ask for money. Heck, one of my own clients just won a race; and I had been so anguished over the lack of renumeration for my services that I had really become resentful. And the bad part is that it is someone I care about and really love, but I was really feeling taken advantage of. The win was a hefty gift, a Maiden Allowance with a purse of abotu 21 K. When the owner-trainer handed me a check, she staked me $100. That sure helped!
It should be a very busy day today. I have a half-dozen clients that have to go. Nobody went yesterday except for Cal, and I only galloped two. There’s a new Canadian that shipped in over Christmas. I inquired yesterday and hopefully will be able to again, early, because he’s gonna have ten or twelve horses, they say.
It sucks that his putfit is all the way at the top of the hill – it’s hard to get up there fast from Cal’s outfit.
Then, when I have finished my work for the day, I’m usually full of all that has happened, but I’m also crashing from my two-cup tea habit and ready to nap. As soon as I get home, I eat something and lie down. Once I’m up, it’s all over. I’m empty-headed again.
I noticed in the results this morning that one of my earlier favorite horses, I’ll call him Phoenix (because when he had a trainer switch, he improved tremendously), finished third last night. What a gallant fellow! He’s had a lot of bad luck. He missed out on some specific care for a long time, that the new trainer (I’ll call him Cal) has managed to provide. When Cal first got the horse, he reversed his performance almost completely; after getting beaten double digits repeatedly, he ran second. Then he had an injury leaving the starting gate, and he hasn’t been 100% since. Last night he felt good enough to run third, and I am proud of both him and Cal.
I’d like to speak more openly about my horses and people, but because most of my horses run in claimers, I don’t want this column to become a place where people scout for horses to claim. I also have an aversion to being deceiving in it, because that would produce no lasting benefit for the industry, my credibility, the horse, and my friends. So as strange as my names sound to me, I guess that’ the way I have to do it. Some I will be able to speak about, I think, but certainly not all.
I’m supposed to work for Burkle today. He's been off two days and at his request, I have collected Saturday and Sunday's programs to give to him. The idea behind having the programs is to mark down who made money each evening and then see which of those people owes the tack store. It's never a bad time to ask for money. Heck, one of my own clients just won a race; and I had been so anguished over the lack of renumeration for my services that I had really become resentful. And the bad part is that it is someone I care about and really love, but I was really feeling taken advantage of. The win was a hefty gift, a Maiden Allowance with a purse of abotu 21 K. When the owner-trainer handed me a check, she staked me $100. That sure helped!
It should be a very busy day today. I have a half-dozen clients that have to go. Nobody went yesterday except for Cal, and I only galloped two. There’s a new Canadian that shipped in over Christmas. I inquired yesterday and hopefully will be able to again, early, because he’s gonna have ten or twelve horses, they say.
It sucks that his putfit is all the way at the top of the hill – it’s hard to get up there fast from Cal’s outfit.
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