Combined with, as LaurieB noted, running out of ideas that were submitted and rejected by the JC. 
I can easily image, having done this once for a AQHA colt I bred, how frustrating to work on a list of names you really like and having them all get rejected (or in my case, my least favorite name was chosen).
I’d imagine that’s where the TB name “The Name Was Gone” came from.
Ack didn’t think that the owner might have been doing the kicking and howling after names rejected, thanks for that.
Hmmmm they used to sell crickets for bait at one gas station in Athens GA.
Yeah I know the name frustration for owners registering TBs with the JC has always been high, like Needles and his relative Nails, and all the other names… More difficult than registering dogs, for whom I always had a list of names to use when I bought a puppy… So I should have told every one when Callie was alive that it was her breeder who was Kick and Howl, not my sweet little mare.
I agree though, some of those names are a little strange this year.
There was a Bonne Nuit line event horse who was shown by the USET as Laser. His JC registered name was “Not Available.”
I always had a soft spot in my heart for Glenda the Good.
Ugh, looks like rain for the Preakness Saturday.
Based on past performance, shouldn’t bother Justify
He certainly handled the sloppy Churchill Downs track without any apparent problem.
New York City area is being pretty heavily subjected to radio ads, “Come to Belmont Park on June 9th to watch Justify try for the Triple Crown”. Friend who subscribes to NYRA racing got an email the day after the Kentucky Derby to buy her tickets for said attempt. Um, there is a race he needs to win before he can try for the Triple Crown…
A late addendum to what I said. Justify can handle a sloppy track if Mike Smith can hustle him out of the gate and avoid the kickback. We don’t know how Justify would handle the kickback if he isn’t close to the lead. Time will tell.
MTHBWM, I agree :lol: . Gotta get that pesky Preakness out of the way before billing Justify as the next TC challenger in New York
Handled the slop at Santa Anita too. Unlike CD where there’s always rain during the spring meet, it don’t rain much out in la la land.
He did but as with CD, no kickback from the slop. Mike had him alertly in front the entire race. We don’t know what Justify would do if he had a slow break and ended up behind horses with mud in his face if it rains on Saturday.
With only 8 likely starters, barring scratches (no pun intended) taking it lower, probably just take plain old bad luck to beat him…something there is an abundance of with horses. He still has to win the race and should with any luck at all.
2018 is the year of the mudder, huh?
Ironic down here, where it FINALLY rained today after a scary dry/hot stretch for this time of year which, following on the heels of an unusually cold spring, has not been kind to our pastures and hay crops. Fingers crossed that we’ll get enough water this week to help correct the situation.
Ferris Allen had one break down at Pimlico today. I’m hoping the track condition improves, although the weather is not going to cooperate. A little prayer that everyone goes back to the barn safe and sound in the next 2 days.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/horse-racing/bs-sp-horse-euthanized-pimlico-0517-story.html
I remember the horse, Homeboykris, that was also mentioned in that article.
Is the Pimlico track engineered to handle the rain/wet as well as the CD track was?
Jingles for all races to finish safely, for riders and horses alike.
Just watched Justify video that Laurierace linked on the other thread (the thread ‘Justify lame’).
Silly question I may have asked some other time—lead changes, does the horse change on his own, or does the rider ask? In full out racing gallop, is there much difference between “correct” lead and outside lead, for the sake of speed or distance covered, in the straight? I can see it might help with balance and staying tight in the turns, to stay on the “correct” lead, but I honestly don’t know if, when and how the horse changes. I saw it with the video Laurierace linked to because it was only Justify on the video.
I believe the jock asks but doesn’t always get the lead change. (I’ve also seen the jock ask for right lead heading down the straight and then the horse will swap back to the left lead before hitting the wire.)
Lead change is primarily to “balance” the amount of work both sides of the horse has to do (don’t think I explained this well).
Usually right lead on the straights and left lead on the turns.
You can sometimes see a tiring horse get a bit more active when they swap leads.
Bob Baffert says he actually prefers the Pimlico Track in the mud vs Churchill in the mud. The surface handles it well and the track workers have been keeping it in good condition considering.
I am amazed the Lukas will not even jog his horses in the mud. They’ve been hand walked on the track with the pony. Even a light canter would do the horse some good. I can see not wanting to gallop if its bad but let the horse get some exercise.
Not a silly question. Left lead on the turns, right lead on the straightaways. Lots of the time the horse switches on their own which is a combination of training to switch in the corners and fatigue like washing walls with your right hand and switching to your left when the right gets tired. If the horse doesn’t change on their own the jockey will ask them to…sometimes horses will switch onto the correct lead then switch back early. Some won’t switch at all. Both of those are red flags that something isn’t right.
Right. You usually see a late change coming out of the far turn when the horse is tired - it does take a bit more energy to swap. But when they do change, they sometimes take off on the fresh lead. And yes, a horse that swaps back and forth or won’t swap at all is protecting something.
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