Still waiting!

"Stuck" here at the ranch waiting for the delivery.....Woulda loved to be at the Cutting in Täby this weekend! Passing my time working the horses, feeding pigs, goats, sheep, bunnies & guinnea pigs and whatever else moves and breathes on this place!

I am following the Derby cutting from Fort Worth over the interweb thing. Makes you wonder though, I have draws, working orders, results and a webcast from half way around the globe, but have no clue as to who and what horses are entered in a cutting a 2hour drive from here! Gotta rectify that for next seasson!


 We've had a humid, pressing heat here for a week or two. Working the horses early or late at night. Kick The Cat feels great. We got away's to go still before she's secure enough to work on her own. I let her go here and there, for a couple of turns before she get's too eager and wants to cheat alittle. It's slow, but it is steady progress.

Kick The Cat

Polly's cut is healing up decent. It was a couple of inches wide and fairly deep between pastern and hoof, so sewing was out. We've treated it and have had her wrapped out in the pasture but airing it out when she's been stalled at night using only tarplaster to keep the flies & bugs off. She should be ok in a couple of weeks.

Ritzy's Dream has been worked too. She feels as good as ever on the straightaway and a new trip to the track should be made here in a bit.

Ritzy's Dream

The NCHA Derby finals are upon us tonight with the Non Pro and the Open. Hottish keeps impressing in the open and easily scored a semifinal best 221. Boyd Rice's two Center Ranch fillies CR Smart Brow April and CR Sun Reys looked great too with a 219 and a 218.5 respectively.

Hottish

CR Sun Reys

Still holding hope for Roger Wagners Dual N CD, he made the finals with a 217 and room to spare.

It took a 215 to advance to the final 22 and most of the favorites are in. Missing and "shoulda maybe" from the semis are Jae Bar One Time, Jewel Bars Cat, Sigala Rey and Matt Gaines Smooth N Catacular. All the semifinalists walk home with a $4.500 check though. Waltons Fortune Bend coulda been in there also and I thought he should have, he only marked a 212 and musta had misses I didn't notice on my lagging live stream. The run that I saw looked more like a 219.

A horse that also is very capable of posting money scores is Thundercat. He had to settle for the ltd Non Pro championship were he marked a 221 to claim the $11.000 cheque for owner/rider Don Bell. The HBC colt out of great performer and producer Desire Some Freckles, do have a chance to increase that in the Non Pro finals tonight. Look out for Ty Moore & Mrs Bay Cat in the Non Pro also.

Thundercat