clh...Hoopoe!!!

madelyn · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject:

cool - I replied.

Trackside (Churchill Downs Training) is at I-264 & Preston Hwy - not exactly next to Churchill, but only 15 minutes from my farm.
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clh · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:51 am Post subject:

Well when I DO MAKE IT DOWN I will have to stop by your place for a visit! (if the invite is still open that is Wink

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LB · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject:

Congratulations, clh! Very Happy

clh · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys! He looked liked a racehorse. Allou's page continues to improve! Funny Moon just won a grade I last weekend Smile

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Georgerz · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

Congratulations!

Nessa · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:19 pm Post subject:

Yeah HOOP!
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Toccet02 · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject:

That's m'BOY! Congrats!
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jellac · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject:

I saw Hoopoe on TVG today (!) race today at Saratoga and thought he might win if he had had another gear or just some reserves in the tank as he (and the thundering herd) hit the top of the stretch....sadly he had pretty much run out of gas and folded to let the stalkers surge past for the WPS....not sure if he held on to 4th or placed further back?

Too long a race, too stiff a competitive group or just not ready? He ran well up to a point but past where I would consider it a wind issue - he just seemed to have either hit his distance limit or ran way too fast/hot on the front end of the race to have anything left for the finish.

Unless I'm dis-remembering his race I recall that he went waaay wide on the first turn and set very fast initial fractions - maybe he's still very green and needs some more race seasoning before he figures it out?

Georgerz · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject:

Hoopoe has been entered for the Ohio Derby. Good luck and safe trip.

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Roguelet · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject:

Georgerz · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject:

I picked the Ohio Derby information here:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/52735/better-late-than-never-for-ohio-derby

And there is this other entry, which I just read, to check on the Indiana Derby:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/52757/misremembered-to-try-dirt-in-indiana-derby

which means he is (pre)entered in both races.

Roguelet · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:01 am Post subject:

I wonder which one he'll be in... Good luck to him, whichever one he runs in!
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Nessa · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject:

Well he has no rider for the Indiana Derby and he has one for the Ohio Derby so I'd think the Ohio would be the one he'd show up in. Okay now he has a rider for the Indiana Derby as well so there is no way of knowing where he is actually show up at.
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