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She is unbeaten in four starts. I'd show you the inelegant proof, but that would mean I'd have to stop badmouthing my mother AND people might get the idea she's responsible for ME. Buddhas forfend! Anyway, the filly manages to blast past everyone else on the field every time, except she CANNOT run straight. She weaves all over the track. It's nerve-racking as hell, and keeps getting us inquiries after the races. She needs a damn LANE. She's starting to win money that is getting on toward serious dough... so she'll probably break a leg next outing to insure my future as a bag lady.
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Maybe she can workout to strengthen her legs.
ReplyDeleteI'll lend my new exercise machine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5wJCzksT9k&feature=related
Yes, the leg strengthening thing has been a worry for me all along, of course, it being one of my pet peeves and all. In fact, we didn't start her until later than they usually start, and found out the hard way that she can't run on this new faux track material they're putting in at most of the tracks, or WERE before so many horses started coming up lame from them. So we can only run her on real dirt tracks, and only work her on them too. We are hoping to get her on the turf for stakes races in an effort to let her get her earnings where they ought to be without endangering her soundness.
ReplyDeleteBut all of our efforts might be mooted if we can't get her to stop weaving drunkenly down the track. ONE of these times the stewards will lose their patience with her goofy ways and knock her down or out. Those horses are worth too much money to be getting bumped by some weaver, EVEN if she's a fast one, EVEN if they don't want to break my little old lady mother's heart. They DO have patience, but only up to a certain point.
She's definitely now at the point where she has to fish or cut bait, because when you run at this class, the $$$ go through the roof.
And we all know what takes precedence when there's $$$ on the line.
I'll see ya around sometime tomorrow - need to get to bed now, have to be in Napa at 5:30am tomorrow. The cooling equipment for our latest wine warehouse showed up 3 weeks late. They are moving in Monday, but our crews just got stuff in place this last Wednesday and finished running the refrigerant piping this afternoon. I need to go tomorrow to help get it all running.
ReplyDeleteSo much for my other plans for tomorrow, which was a trip to the Sierras to realign my soul.
I guess I could always consider the wiring inside the control panel I will be hooking up to be my mantra!
ReplyDeleteWell, sleep tight and maybe you can hit the Sierra on Sunday. At least maybe a drink in Downieville....
ReplyDeleteNever been to Downieville, I usually head due east to Yuba gap then North from there. The furthest I've been up hwy 49 is the big arch bridge at the Yuba River.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I roamed the hills east of Oroville when I was living on the Feather river, about a mile upstream of Bald Rock.
You are missing quite a lot! Holy shit, BB2. On up past Downieville it gets even MORE spectacular. You can go all the way up into the mountains and loop back to 80 near the Nevada border. It will punch yer lights out. It will make you higher than any dope you ever smoked.
ReplyDeleteIs Sierra Buttes up that way? I can see them from where I go, but have never set out to find them.
ReplyDeleteHell, I dunno. It's just too frickin' pretty to call anything by its name. Just take 49 all the way to Loyalton and then just keep turning south till you hit 80. It's GORGEOUS. You can stop along the road and go lie on your back on a big rock next to the river and bellow into the cosmos your love for where you are.
ReplyDeleteOr, if you've dawdled too much, you can take 89 down from Sierraville and get on the freeway back home.
ReplyDeleteSo the buttes are indeed off of 49
ReplyDeleteScroll down here for views from the buttes.
I want to be here right now!
Speaking of horses, we had a mini-stampede near here last night!
ReplyDeleteDamnit - It is throwing me to your spam box again!
ReplyDeleteI had a comment with three links to the Sutter Buttes - it is now gone.
ReplyDeleteThe comment with a single link to the stampede is still here - at this moment anyway.
It looks like it is accepting a single link, condemning multiple links.
ReplyDeleteOh, this is a drag. I hope they straighten it out soon.
ReplyDeleteThe Buttes don't interest me, but the lakes and the rivers are mystical. You don't have to do anything even nearly so strenuous to enjoy it up there way more.