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.