Irish Eagle Breezes At TBD

Still working through his breathing issues. Let's see if he can run and breathe at the same time this go around...

Works at Tampa on the 23rd

Up Fired Up's first work ever!


TS Fay goes for a "spicy" breeze:


Irish Works a fast 5 Furlongs:

Progress With Irish Eagle

Some improvement today. He is definitely breathing better! We used a tongue tie and ring bit...we can't control him without the ring bit but maybe the tie helped. Also having a jockey that was not rushing helped.

Irish Eagle vs The Flying W

You can't say we have not tried things with this guy...

Trying To Get Irish Right To Race Again

Another trip to TBD for a work. Another bit.

Irish Eagle Faces Challenges

From breathing issues to broken teeth. But he does show some speed as you can see here. The 7th race on February 3rd is the one in which he crashed into the gate and broke his teeth. We would have put the race in the clip below, but TBD uses a video system Alex is as of yet unable to import into the videos he makes.

Irish Eagle's Gory Mishap and Timeless Promise's Training

More on this in the video, with updates to follow soon.

Irish Eagle's First Race. Really.

This time he started and finished, but not without incident. At least these mishaps are related to his being hot to run, which is a good problem to have. We'll be running him back ASAP.

Irish Eagle's First Race

Not exactly an ideal first outing as you'll see. But that's the breaks, or rather not, in his case that time. He came through fine and we'll race him back ASAP.

Foundations for the Yearlings-Irish Preps for His First Race

This Morning at Tampa: Wet

Tampa Bay Downs is Open!

Not sure what is up with the recent resolution issues. Will work on fixing asap. Meanwhile here is the latest
UPDATE- Resolution issues fixed. Any distortion now is due to limitations of iPhone and youtube. :


And I found this, which is interesting. I will see about having Mom get one of these helmet cams for future works and commentary.

Calder Last Weekend

TS Fay did not get here race so she and Irish Eagle ended up working while we were down there. We ran in last race with Tiny...she wasn't fast enough to get in position on rail in front and ate dirt the whole way.
She came out of race fine and we look for a better chance next time!

Catching Up

Alex has tons of stuff from me that he promises to work through now that he is back home from a business trip. Gotta take care of the day job first! Here is an update of where we stood at the beginning of the month. Much more to come to cover between then and now...

Rainy Day Sale at OBS

Some breezes, then a trip to the sales barn to look for a yearling for a client.

Tuning Up at the Farm

As you've heard us mention before, the particular challenge with racing from the farm this time of year is it really is not feasible to get breezes in at Calder. And the convenient and available track at OBS is synthetic, and not like the heavy stuff in Miami. At this point in TS Fay's training, she needs full out, lung expanding breezes, that challenge her and stress her so that she comes back stronger and "racier" (remember that tight abs look we talked about wanting in her last race?). We can't do that in the grove, so, we end up using races as breezes with light conditioning between. It does not do much for our numbers, but it works. Fingers crossed that we will see some improvement form Fay in her next outing.
And Irish Eagle is looking healthy now. We'll be entering him soon...

Update on Irish Eagle and Spitfire Red

Irish heals, Spitifire still having problems.

Pre Miami Update

I am already behind by one report, so this one goes up, warts and all.

Wednesday Roundup

Irish Eagle was ridden today. He is not lame or touchy on his shins and so he was ridden "lightly". We will ride him off and on while the shins are tightening and healing.

More on Spitfire Red plus Bathing 101:

July 27th Morning Works at the Farm

Spitfire Red is galloping easy and seems fresh.




Intrestingly he came back dripping with sweat and it started almost immediately. That is a point of reference because it was still fairly cool for Florida in the early morn.

Irish eagle has been off with bucked shins and is doing a trail ride today. That should not hurt him and will help him keep some fitness.








Here is the way his shins look today after the light ride (walk trot two miles).

Here is what they looked like a few weeks back.

They do look better today.

It is cooler early this morn and we are giving Stack Bali a gallop to see how he is doing. (he is the non-sweater).

He trotted and galloped a total of two miles and breathed well and felt good. But...dry as a bone-no sweat breaking out. We hosed him much and put him under the fan. I am trying green papaya chopped up in his feed. At first he wouldn't eat it but now I pour molasses on it!

I showed this injury a while back on Stack. You can now see how the cornet band is growing out.

Here is another angle that shows the severe trauma to hoof wall.

He seems to be going soundly on it anyway...