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!