Trainer: Fenwick Will Be Tough if He Gets His Way
Well if Fenwick has any horse sense his way entails being entered in a first condition allowance on the undercard.
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“He trained this morning and is doing great,” McKathan said Tuesday morning. “He galloped 1 1/2 miles at Churchill. We'll load him on the van and bring him on up.”
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If you stay on the highway a little longer you’ll reach Parx. They’ve got a first condition allowance on Monday.
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Fenwick, the first horse McKathan has trained in his name since 1989, is co-owned by Villa Rosa Farm and Harlo Stable and was a late addition to the Preakness field before entries closed.
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I guess that’s a point in their favor. They entered the horse before entries closed…
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Last of 11 in the Blue Grass (G1) in his stakes debut, he drew Post 3 and is 50-1 on the morning line with Florent Geroux aboard.
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Another point in their favor. Gonna definitely finish better than 11th…
…if he indeed finishes…
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McKathan had a brief training career in the 1980s before turning to the operation of the McKathan Brothers Training Center in Ocala, Fla.
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This one of those 2yo consignors/racing managers/farm trainers that decides he’s gonna show everyone how it’s done? Like that dude that trained Bellamy Road after Nick Zito?
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McKathan said that he hopes to see Fenwick, a son of Curlin, leave the gates running.
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That should be another easy point in their favor, but I like his pragmatism. Most horses leave the gate running, but let’s not take it for granted in this case…
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“I think the horse fits in,” McKathan said.
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Fits in what? The starting gate? Is the horse overweight or something?
Man, I’m all for counting the small victories but next your gonna tell me that your confident he'll pass the horseshoe inspection…
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“If he gets his race and runs his race, he will be hard to outrun.
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This guy knows his horse will being running against other horses and not just a bunch of mountless jockeys on foot, right?
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I'm not saying he will outrun Steve's horse [Asmussen-trained Epicenter].
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Coincidentally, Fenwick also used to be Steve’s horse. He couldn’t get him to break his maiden. Neither did McKathan; some other dude won with him at Tampa, beating some also-ran from the BC Juvenile…which may be the biggest indictment of that race...
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I'm not saying anything crazy like that, but if he has his way, they will have a hard time getting by him.
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They will definitely have a hard time getting by him if by “his way” you mean that all the other horses in the race will have to do two laps around the Pimilico racetrack to Fenwick’s one…
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If he gets that open move, he will keep doing it, and he does it fast and he does it for a long time.”
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We still talking about horse racing or is “Open Move” street code for whatever it is that you’re smoking?