Hosehead Racing LLC - Catching Fireflies

[Easy Goer Otis]

Here is a link to Strong Gale's allowance win at Delaware Park.

https://youtu.be/7lrLK-cVrnA

We had some pre-race luck with the race coming off turf and scratching from 11 to 5 horses. That said, she was facing 4-5 favorite Hold On Momma, who ran noses apart from Go Maggie Go in the Gulfstream Oaks for 7f.

Jockey Carol Cedeno said SG relaxed on the turn when she thought she put away Hold On Momma. Then re-kicked when the closer came at her. She earned a Beyer of 78 and a TFUS rating of 101. Both 12 point increases.

Trained by Arnaud Delacour.

-O

[Easy Goer Otis]

Speak With Me (FR) finally made his first start yesterday in a MSW at Del Park for Arnaud Delacour. He won impressively, despite racing 4-wide. I believe this is the first Lope de Vega to win in the US.

Video of the race:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...-del-on-7-6-16

Was there in the Winners Circle. Always a thrill!

Best,

Otis

[Easy Goer Otis]

Terrific debut for our 2yo filly Folk Magic at Woodbine Saturday. She went 6f on the turf in 1:09.49 and won by 3.75 lengths.

She is the first starter in North America for freshman sire Americain, who won the Melbourne Cup. Accordingly, her win has garnered quite a bit of press in Australia.

http://www.breednet.com.au/news/1250...-for-Americain

Hosehead Racing owns her in partnership with Polivka Equine and Brushy Hill. We bought her privately at the KEE yearling sale about 15 minutes after she RNA'ed for $24k.

Trained by Brian Lynch. Folk Magic is his first 2yo FTS winner on the grass at Woodbine in five years (previously 0-31). So he usually brings them on slow. Hoping we see continued development.

She is the 7th different winner so far this year for HHR. 2016 record: 25-7-4-3 $135,545.

Best,

Otis

[Easy Goer Otis]

Folk Magic was featured in Jeff Siegel's black book this week.

http://www.xbtv.com/video/black-book...uly-23rd-2016/

Best,

O

[declansharbor]

Good luck later today Otis with Catching Fireflies @ Parx!

Hope all is well with the stable!

[Easy Goer Otis]

Thanks very much, DH!

We transferred CFF from Ralph Nicks to Arnaud Delacour after she developed some allergies down in Florida that kept her congested. She is doing much better at Fair Hill and we are excited to see her get back in the gate.

Very salty field, with many experienced race mares. But in 5f turf sprints, anything can happen! She will be fresh, for sure, and should hopefully get a clean break from the outside post. Not sure how wide she will be on the turn, but I'm hoping she's fairly close to the lead or just off the pace.

Thanks for asking about the HHR stable. Currently, the top prospects are:

Folk Magic (Brian Lynch-trained Americain 2yo who ran 1:09.5 6f turf debut at Woodbine in July and made Jeff Siegel's Black Book. http://www.xbtv.com/video/black-book...uly-23rd-2016/
She is spelling in Florida while going through a growth spurt and should race again in November)

Madame Dubois (South African G3 winning filly that we imported and have given to Todd Pletcher at Palm Meadows. Look for her at Gulfstream)

Peart (2yo Badge of Silver filly bred by Brereton Jones finished 3rd in debut vs colts on Saturday at Woodbine and made DRF's Horses to Watch list http://www.drf.com/news/premium/horses-watch-woodbine-0 )

Dream Mover (Marco Botti-trained 3yo colt is entered to run in a 7f $150k Handicap at Ascot on Saturday. He has one win and two second place finishes this year - all photos)

Versaline (a hard-knocking 4yo gray stayer has won two handicaps for Christophe Ferland in France this year. She races October 16th in Deauville.)

2016 record so far for HHR is 39-8-6-4 with 7 different winners.

Cheers!

Otis

[casp0555]

Good Luck today with Catching Fireflies at Laurel...I am going to try and use her in a couple of plays. Safe trips for rider and horse.