Weekend

Spent the weekend working, packing and celebrating Ida´s birthday. Had the farrier over Friday night. Put shoes on Cat to help her out alittle. She doesn´t have the best feet in the world after all her leg problems. She´s compensated for the various ailments and not worn her hoofs even. The farrier did a great job on all our horses but the poor guy didn´t get home until way past midnight!

Saturday saw the harness race circuit come to town and I had to work. Great races though, and you can see summer´s coming by the quality of horses in the races.

Had friends and family over for Ida´s birthday party Sunday. Really nice day and Ida had a blast.

It´s time for semis in the open Super Stakes after 2 goarounds and 286 entries!

Really hard to pick a favorite as the scores been all over the place. Most consistant, futurity champ One Time Royalty with his 219-217.5 for a 436.5 composite. It took 229.5 to advance and 60+ties made it, with a total of 72 horses in the semifinals on Friday.

I´m not totally convinced One Time Royalty can go all the way this time though. Probably need atleast a 216-217 to advance to the finals but we´ll know more after the semis Friday. There are a couple of horses I really like and root alittle extra for: Shannon Hall & Smart Little Wood (Nitas Wood), Phil Rapp´s Smoothe Bye Design (Smooth As A Cat), Wes Galyean´s Some Like It Hot (Spots Hot), One Rowdy Kitty & Curtis Bass and Roger Wagners Stylish Martini (Docs Stylish Oak). Remember Roger Wagners outstanding mare Quintan Blue? She only made $600.000 in the showpen. Well, she´s got 3 offspring in the semis! The two High Brow Cats; Cat Man Blue & Cat Got The Blues along with the Tunica Champ. Blue One Time (One Time Pepto)!
Gonna be exciting!