Buddy, a 20 yr old grade horse, in first place all day, won’t be
listed as the first place horse because his trail challenged owner missed a vet
check! Buddy had A’s all day, including the completion check, with a
44/48 CRI on a ride that had a very high pull rate due to the sudden heat &
no time to condition for it. Many kudos to Buddy for
his great performance, even if it won’t be listed as such in the records.
I train with Dan & Buddy and my horse, Sonny, didn’t get his
completion at the 50 due to thumping. At that point, 6 horses had already been
pulled for thumping, sort of a record in this area at least, where the vets
might get one horse in 6 rides. We came in 17th, so there were many
still to come behind us, don’t know the final pull rate or if there were
more thumpers after Sonny. It’ll be interesting to get the rest of the
story from those who were there.
