Straight from the horse’s mouth..but they don’t know a horse’s head from its ass...

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Sometimes it seems we spend more time talking about horses that don't run than horses that do.

I will not post another Flightline commentary (until his retirement) if by some miracle we get both Olympiad (Mott wants a Grade 1) and Jack Christopher (Brown doesn't really want to cutback to 7f) in the Met Mile.

Of course, we're more likely to spy Jesus Christ in the front row of Elvis's comeback concert at Shea Stadium next Octember...

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

I will not post another Flightline commentary (until his retirement) if by some miracle we get both Olympiad (Mott wants a Grade 1) and Jack Christopher (Brown doesn't really want to cutback to 7f) in the Met Mile.

Of course, we're more likely to spy Jesus Christ in the front row of Elvis's comeback concert at Shea Stadium next Octember...

Far more likely.

I didn't mean you...I meant all of us in the game.

[RolloTomasi]

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.

“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.”

If you stay on the highway a little longer you’ll reach Parx. They’ve got a first condition allowance on Monday.

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.

I guess that’s a point in their favor. They entered the horse before entries closed…

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.

Another point in their favor. Gonna definitely finish better than 11th…

…if he indeed finishes…

McKathan had a brief training career in the 1980s before turning to the operation of the McKathan Brothers Training Center in Ocala, Fla.

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?

McKathan said that he hopes to see Fenwick, a son of Curlin, leave the gates running.

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…

“I think the horse fits in,” McKathan said.

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…

“If he gets his race and runs his race, he will be hard to outrun.

This guy knows his horse will being running against other horses and not just a bunch of mountless jockeys on foot, right?

I'm not saying he will outrun Steve's horse [Asmussen-trained Epicenter].

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...

I'm not saying anything crazy like that, but if he has his way, they will have a hard time getting by him.

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…

If he gets that open move, he will keep doing it, and he does it fast and he does it for a long time.”

We still talking about horse racing or is “Open Move” street code for whatever it is that you’re smoking?

[moses]

Fenwick will be hard to outrun except the trainer believes Epicenter will easily outrun him?

[blackthroatedwind]

As I recall, "that guy" Ed Sexton was the stable manager and he took the horse away from Nick and then made himself the trainer.

Hard to believe that one didn't work out well.

[RolloTomasi]

Todd Pletcher, new trainer of 2021 Champion Juvenile Corniche:

“The Amsterdam was our first and only possible target,” Pletcher said. “I didn't want to get way ahead of myself, that race isn't until July 31 so I worked my way back from there when deciding when his first breeze would be.”

Isn't picking out a race before the horse has even breezed for you and attempting to tailor its schedule to that race a perfect example of "getting ahead of yourself"?

I'm sure it's fine though; all the other plans for this horse have come to fruition.

He got a "freshening" after the BC...has yet to start since.

He was a Triple Crown contender...they are running the Belmont Stakes today.

His owners wanted to stay loyal to Baffert...he's now in Pletcher's barn.

He went to Pletcher because Baffert can't train until July 2 and the horse was supposed to return to the races in June...his first race back is now supposed to be July 31.

His race in June was supposed to be a prep for the Haskell & Travers...he's targeted a 6.5f sprint a week after the Haskell.