Saturday Was A Great Day

Thanks to everyone who came down to Foot Fall Farm to see me yesterday at the stallion open house. The other stallions and I enjoyed being the center of attention. While the weather wasn't the greatest, the people sure were. I was able to strut my stuff and get a few contracts signed for 2011. I'm looking forward to "meeting with" the mares you've submitted. Shelley Winter, the writer for Midwest Thoroughbred Magazine, not to be confused with the actress, Shelley Winters with an 's', won the drawing for a free season to me. Maybe she will decide to do a feature story on yours truly as well.

If she did interview me, I'd have to talk some about how well Little Mike is doing. He won again on Saturday, this time in an allowance at Calder at 7 and 1/2 on turf. With all of the fanfare at the stallion open house, I didn't see the race until later when I logged into my race replays account. The nice barn guy Larry lets me use his lap top. For those of you who have a similar account, you need to see race 10 from Saturday's card. If you can't see a replay, all you really need to know is that track announcer Bobby Neuman used the word "Wow!" to describe the impressive performance.

The race chart says that Little Mike "was checked when trapped in behind a wall of horses" which is an understatement. This was definitely a "Wow!" performance for Little Mike's fourth win in nine starts with earnings now of $150,000. Way to go Mikey!

I almost had two winners at Calder as one of my fillies Hannah's Princess ran on the same card. She had similar traffic troubles in race 8 and was able to overcome them and manage a third in an allowance optional claimer. Good effort, get 'em next time Hannah!

Come See Me On December 11th

The Foot Fall Farm Stallion Open House is set for this Saturday, December 11th at the Palmyra, Indiana. Check out their website for directions: http://www.footfallfarm.com/directions.htm.

If you are going to breed to an Indiana stallion make sure you come see me and all my buds: Zman (Zavata), Goody (Goods), Killer (Killenaule), Maybe (Mr. Mabee) and my newest bud Kela. (We're still working on a nickname for him. His name is so short, it's tough. If you have any suggestions please post a comment.) I've also heard that nice barn guy Larry talking about the possibility of another stallion, a grade 3 winner, being part of our line-up. I guess you will have to come and find out for sure.

Anyway, I'm looking good, my buds are looking good, and the forecast is for a warm up to the low 40's. The low 40's, huh? That sounds like a great number for my forecast of the number of mares I will be breeding to in 2011.  Yeah, the low 40's is my goal. My main man Eddie will be available on Saturday to talk contracts. I'm looking forward to seeing you, and you really need to come see me. My boys and girls run anywhere, on any surface, at any distance. Just what you need.