The handsome young fellow in the video below almost immediately earned the nickname “Rocket” from the good folks at Country Life Farm who are taking care of him and his mother, The Big Four Oh. Seems he likes to zoom around his mom, leaving her exhausted. When we were there the other day, four mare-foal …
Category Archive: The Big Four Oh
May 10 2009
More lifelike than life
We think of horse racing as a break from real life, but to those of us who earn (or try to) a living from it, the game has a way of being sometimes more lifelike than life itself. Or, at the very least, revealing of life in capsule form. And, so, one day just before …
Jun 22 2008
Prince and pauper
Wednesday, as the escalator bore me down to the paddock at Monmouth, an email buzzed my Iphone: “Congratulations, Erin and Frank!” it began. A scan brought good news: our filly The Big Four Oh is pregnant. Names are already chosen, male and female, lodging already secured for her and her offspring. Now all we have …
Jan 09 2008
What bad means
You know a person isn’t lying when they open the conversation with, “I have some bad news for you.” Which is what our trainer said to me the other day. It turns out that he meant bad as in “career-ending,” as opposed to bad, as in “tragic/horrible/death on the racetrack.” He also meant bad, as …
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