A grand day for Godolphin!

[my miss storm cat]

OH!!!

I didn't realize Palace Episode won too!!!


Big day for Godolphin
David Grening
(DRF)...

Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing won with all three of its starters on Wednesday's Saratoga card. All three had a different rider.

In the first race, Astronomia ($16) won a $69,000 allowance race with John Velazquez in the irons. In the third, Council Member ($5.50) won a $78,000 allowance race under Ramon Dominguez. In the sixth, Palace Episode ($15.20) won a $72,000 allowance race with Jean-Luc Samyn up.

Rick Mettee, who oversees Godolphin's 15-horse stable here, said winning three races on a day at Saratoga means a bit more than doing it elsewhere.

"It does," he said. "We haven't had that big horse yet this meet, with Discreet Cat still not back. With a 15-horse barn to win three in Saratoga in three allowance races like that, and with the trips they all pulled, it is special, yes."

Godolphin was also successful overseas on Wednesday, as Echo of Light, who finished last in last year's Breeders' Cup Mile, won the Group 3 Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville.
http://www.drf.com/news/article/87644.html

[brockguy]

wow. palace episode paid 15.20.. i should have stayed in the states a little longer..

http://derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10998

[ArlJim78]

wasn't i just reading some 'facts' on here last week about how these guys didn't know anything about training horses and that their horses just break down?

they sure made a quick rebound.

[NoChanceToDance]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

wasn't i just reading some 'facts' on here last week about how these guys didn't know anything about training horses and that their horses just break down?

they sure made a quick rebound.

Indeed you were, and i was referring about the guys over here.

I respect Mettee. He gets told which horses are coming over for him to train, he doesn't get to decide and he gets the job done.

I'm happy for Palace Episode, he was another horse i liked when he was trained by Kevin Ryan and then he seemed to disappear off the face of the earth.

Did they all win on the turf??

Going back to Echo Of Light........ after he did what he did at Windsor i remember a bookmaking firm (skybet, i think) made an advert from that clip when he went the wrong way. There was a voice over commentary with some irish guy saying "well...... what if he's right and everyone else is wrong" So funny!

[NoChanceToDance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5SREX00TY

Boy, that was close!

He was wearing the cheek pieces, maybe they stopped him from getting scared

[my miss storm cat]

Thanks for posting the link... I love watching him.

Can't wait to see my boy Caradak win the Celebration Mile again.....

[NoChanceToDance]

He's got to beat Evie and Maggie tomorrow first.......... ooooh, and Per Incanto.....

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

OH!!!

I didn't realize Palace Episode won too!!!


Big day for Godolphin
David Grening
(DRF)...

Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing won with all three of its starters on Wednesday's Saratoga card. All three had a different rider.

In the first race, Astronomia ($16) won a $69,000 allowance race with John Velazquez in the irons. In the third, Council Member ($5.50) won a $78,000 allowance race under Ramon Dominguez. In the sixth, Palace Episode ($15.20) won a $72,000 allowance race with Jean-Luc Samyn up.

Rick Mettee, who oversees Godolphin's 15-horse stable here, said winning three races on a day at Saratoga means a bit more than doing it elsewhere.

"It does," he said. "We haven't had that big horse yet this meet, with Discreet Cat still not back. With a 15-horse barn to win three in Saratoga in three allowance races like that, and with the trips they all pulled, it is special, yes."

Godolphin was also successful overseas on Wednesday, as Echo of Light, who finished last in last year's Breeders' Cup Mile, won the Group 3 Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville.
http://www.drf.com/news/article/87644.html

It was all those kisses I blew to them on your behalf.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

It was all those kisses I blew to them on your behalf.

YEA!!!!!