Alright, now that some of our charming, fine gentlemen on this board are through posturing and peeing on trees ...
can the ladies get a word in?
What a thrilling race! She's moving forward each time, she's gutsy as hell, and she can dish it out and take it (I hate performance wimps, fillies should be tough).
When Willie tried to use that top of the stretch bump to help throw her on the correct lead, thought he almost had it, may (or may not) have made a difference, Le Chateau is a darn classy act by herself. Sumwon came back on her once, strongly, to try and put her away, and just lost to the better horse today. She rated kindly for Willie down the backstretch, he's great with her and suits her, and she works hard for him.
She proved her last performance wasn't a fluke.
She's a big filly, just filling out and yet starting to mature. She's only been in decent training for a couple months. The light is just coming on. She's learned it's FUN to play whupass on the track. She loves it.
The filly won $10K for Chuck and the partnership today.
I can't miss any more races by being at work, the screaming upsets the patients.
I wish it was a technical win today, mostly for Steve's sake due to the anniversary of this site, but I am not the least disappointed. Kudos to Steve, Chuck, Cherie, TC.
There will be lots more to come from this filly. And every one of us here on the board get to come along for this fun, wild, ride.