El Sueco

Kick The Cat
Kick The Cat has been operated on and is doing pretty good. She´s in an outside stall for two weeks while she heals up. She´s right next to her buddies Diva & Molly and handles it really well. The prognosis is somewhat sketchy, but hopefully she´ll be as good as new in a few months. Thankfully she´s a pretty quiet lady and we hope that´ll keep her from straining the injured pastern too much.

Kia and "The Sweede"
We got a visit from an old friend last night. Kia and her trotter "El Sueco" came down to stay with us for the week. El Sueco is entered in the national V75 finals races here at Solvalla next Saturday. He doesn´t travel well and Kia wanted to give him plenty of time to recoperate before the race.

It´s a pretty cool but long story so I´ll just give you the basics. Kia bought him last year for next to nothing as she wanted a calm, gentle horse to fool around with at home. He had never raced and was pretty worn down when she got him. She started training him and things moved along to the point where she descided to try him in a qualifier at the track. It went well and she then enetered him in his first race wich he won by a mile. Now, 7 months later, he boasts a record of 12 starts, 8 wins, 3 thirds and a 4th!! Earning close to 400.000 Sek ($55.000!) Not bad for a 5 year old, washed up trotter trained by a "nobody" from the land of santa´s and raindeer!!

El Sueco
He´s breeding isn´t much to write home about, but that´s what makes it so neat! You don´t have to be a millioneer and own the fanciest stock around to have success!!