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10-19-2016, 02:10 PM
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run Un -Happy
Jim McIngvale's reigning champion male sprinter Runhappy continued to tune up for the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park, putting in a one-mile work in 1:39 at Keeneland the morning of Oct . 19. (TERRIBLE TIME )
While trainer Laura Wohlers originally wanted to work the son of Super Saver wire to wire, the 4-year-old colt was extremely obstinate under exercise rider Marcus O'Donnell and needed a good deal of prodding before he ultimately broke off at the three-eighths pole. The duo clicked off splits of :13 1/5, :24 3/5, :36 3/5, :48, 1:00, 1:12 2/5, and 1:25 1/5, with Runhappy looking a bit hot as he came off the track. imo..The horse is in pain and not ready for the BCM Wohlers also worked Runhappy a mile in 1:38 4/5 Oct. 12 and said she was more encouraged this time around with how the defending Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) winner handled the second part of his move. "Our biggest key today was to get him to pick it up around the second turn more because last week he really didn't," Wohlers said. "Last week, he kind of did three eighths and then kind of got slower. He's going into a two-turn mile so it's important that second turn was good, and the second turn he did in about :23. So that was good. But I'm happy with it. We wanted him to understand this is not just a one-turn thing." The antics Runhappy displayed prior to his work, Wohlers acknowleged, are "something he does every day." She said he has become a bit more "stubborn" as he has gotten older. Despite his tendancy to get distracted, Wohlers said the team is not concerned about the amount of morning training traffic he is going to encounter once he ships to Santa Anita Oct. 23, citing the colt's success when he captured the $300,000 Malibu Stakes (gr. I) there last December 2015 "He was always like that last year and we used to let him stand around for 30-40 minutes ... and that became kind of a bad habit," Wohlers explained. "So, this year we've tried to get him to stop that. It kind of negates the warm up when you have to stand for 20-30 minutes. He's always been really bad when things distract him and wanting to stop ... but hey, we're getting ready to go to Santa Anita and we went through it last year. And now with two strong works, he doesn't need to do a whole lot going into the race." {{ WHY ARE THEY RATIONALIZING WHY HE DOERSN'T WANT TO GO ? HE IS HURTING } In the Dirt Mile, Runhappy will attempt to earn his first win beyond seven furlongs. His only losses in nine starts have come at a mile and beyond, with the first being a ninth-place finish in the 2015 Lecomte Stakes (gr. III) and his most recent defeat coming when he finished fourth in the $100,000 Ack Ack Stakes (gr. III) going eight furlongs at Churchill Downs Oct. 1. The Ack Ack was also Runhappy's first start since the Malibu as he has been plagued this year with bone bruising in his right front cannon. He has been on an ambitious catch-up schedule ever since, but Wohlers maintains they have not lost faith in what his blazing speed can accomplish on a big stage. "I do think he will go the (mile) distance," Wohlers said. "I would have liked to have maybe seen the mile (works) be a bit quicker. We would have liked not to have to be rushing him so much, but he needed that time off. We'll see how it goes." ================= I read this article and feel as though the horse doesn't want to run..BECAUSE HE IS IN PAIN....WHY DO THEY FORCE HIM TO DO WHAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO?? AH GREED...THE TIME TESTED MOTIVATOR. They should not race him, if he has such garbage works... please dont break him 
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10-20-2016, 06:40 AM
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Since they are racing him, they should have him trying to defending the sprint title instead of trying the mile.
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10-20-2016, 10:56 AM
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10-21-2016, 10:01 AM
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They're probably thinking Dirt Mile is the easier race.. The Sprint is primed to be one helluva race.
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10-22-2016, 12:37 PM
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DRF/Nicole Russo: BC Turf Sprint: Add Celestine to the mix
Add another name to the hat for what is likely to be an overflow group of pre-entries for the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint when that deadline comes Monday. Grade 1 winner Celestine is now expected to cut back in distance for that event, her connections told the Keeneland communications staff after she worked this morning (more on that work, and other Kentucky Breeders' Cup contenders, from Marty McGee here). In her two most recent starts, Celestine won the Grade 1 Just a Game Stakes at Belmont, then was third (behind Photo Call and champion Tepin) in the Grade 1 First Lady at Keeneland, both races at a mile. But in three starts at less than a mile on turf last year, she won twice (at seven furlongs and five furlongs) and was second once. The Turf Sprint is contested at 6 1/2 furlongs on Santa Anita's idiosyncratic downhill course. "She won a seven-furlong race at Belmont and she showed a lot of speed at Gulfstream when she broke her maiden and won a little overnight stakes," assistant trainer Rodolphe Brisset said. "We feel pretty comfortable shortening her up. She bounced back really, really good from [the First Lady]."
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10-24-2016, 05:41 AM
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Above fully updated with anticipated pre-entries..
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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10-24-2016, 08:07 AM
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