Up Up and Away!

Trigun, Narsil and Melkor load the plane for a trip to the Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.

Trigun, our 3y/o colt by Revenge out of Steal The Gold, has been entered in the Hong Kong Cup. With a record of 6 4-1-0 and a track record at 10 furlongs, the Cup looks promising.

Narsil, 3y/o colt by Octagonal Waltz out of Mannerism, has been entered in the Hong Kong Vase. As never placed worse than 3rd in any of his turf races from 9-12f. He has only raced once at 12f and came in 2nd to Malvern Hill and in front of Color Of Fame, maybe we will meet them both again at the Vase.

Melkor , 3y/o colt by Forest Dancer out of Kelly Belle, may be entered in either race. He has won his last three starts from 11-12 furlongs, with his last start producing a PSR of 109 without being pushed. He could be a surprise.

These will be our last races of the season, we hope to end it with a bang!

Big N Tough Wins BC Juvie!

We were at Churchill Downs this weekend with three of our horses, Narsil, Big N Tough and Kagura. The BC Classic, BC Juvie and Churchill Down Distaff was the goal.

The first race of the day with was the biggest, the BC Classic with our boy Narsil. He is a very versatile horse, likes either turf or dirt, and we had two options to go with him.. the Classic or the Turf. We choose the dirt option in the end. During the race he was in the thick of things, a big field, and placed as best he could. His time I think could have been better and palced better even if the field was not as big, but that's racing. Narsil, in the end, placed a respective 5th against tough opposition and came away clean in the end, no injuries and no soreness.

The second race of the day for us was the BC Juvenile race with our 2y/o colt Big N Tough sired by our own stallion Big N Rich. We were very excited with our colts chances but with other colts like Rocket and Deux Francais we were a mighty bit worried how our colt would do not having been up against much before, but his previous time on dirt told us he should be in this race. Much to our shock he went for the lead early on in the race, avoiding being caught in traffic later in the race which was our biggest fear. He led the remainder of the race to the finish line giving us our 2nd BC winner in our stables history! We were pleasantly surprised at the end of the race to see he set a new track record. What does the future hold for him? A big rest back at the barn.

Our last race of the day was the Churchill Downs Distaff with our 3y/o filly Kagura who we opted not to enter into a BC Distaff race this year despite being an early goal we had in mind for her. Her times just were not up to par, so we opted another race more to her form. In the end of the race she surpassed the rest of the field and won her 4th race of the year sending her earning over the million dollar mark. We are very proud of our homebred filly.

Well I would say this ends the year with a bang, but we have one more big weekend ahead. ;-) See ya'll at Hong Kong.

End of The Year Sales

With the end of the season closing we finally got around to deciding what horses we are regretfully selling for certain. So here are the horses you can expect to see at the auction from Rivendell:

Princely Pride - 3 y/o racer by King Of Sheba out of Betty's Pride
Go Dancing - 5y/o broodmare by Suave Dancer out of Allez France
Minis Tirith - weanling filly by Troll Tower out of Steal The Gold
Viper Venom - weanling colt by A Bus out of Dakota Magic
Bacardi Ice - yearling colt by Fouardee out of Elegant Fashion
Fullmetal Panic - yearling filly by Octagonal Waltz out of Sea Success

The ages are for the current season, and their AR's will be available on our homepage.

Late Bloomers Aplenty

Late bloomers Narsil, Melkor and Trigun have surely given us something to look forward to next year as their success on the track keeps improving. Just last weekend both three year olds colts went out and won with inspiring hopes of what is to come.

Melkor won his first G2 race, the Grand Prix Stakes, by 9 full lengths and taking the lead from the get go for 11 furlongs on turf. This is his 3rd win in a row. My patience seems to be paying off after pulling my hair out a few times. I expect he will do better next year.

Trigun had his work cut out for him though stepping it up in competition and grade in the G1 Doomben Cup. I will admit I was worried with horses such as Lazy Loper, Taj Mahlal, Silver Poetry.. well the whole field was a big obstacle for my colt and to say the least I questioned his ability to perform against such high caliber horses but I did indeed want to test his ability and they did. He pulled through amazingly well, shocking me and winning his first GI race and setting a track record. At this moment Trigun is being shipped via plane for his next test. ;-)

Our other late bloomers are Narsil, who has bloomed nicely now and winning over 1 mill, and also Retaliate and Balrog who we are still patiently waiting to mature.

So don't throw out those two year olds at the end of this season, or sell those three year olds after their first bad start cause they performed badly, you could regret it later.