Transplanted in Texas

Here is my final springtime review of my 2016 KeeNov mares and weanling/yearling selections. I have two more reviews coming - in August and November. We already know that General Quarters is in Turkey, Dynamic Sky is at Shannondoe Farm in Ontario, Canada, and that Dads Caps is at Legacy Ranch in California. As for the mares... Madame Giry produced a Jayde, Inc.-bred colt by Honor Code on April 9 in Kentucky. My Conquestadory has a bay filly by Tapit, foaled May 11, that is possibly placed on a nurse mare. My Conquestadory should be heading to Australia for their breeding season shortly. Still no word on where Promise Me Silver is or who she was bred to. She's Not Here is still in America... somewhere. No idea who she was bred to. Burning Arch had a filly by American Pharoah on March 31, bred at Hinkle Farms in Kentucky. Crisp, who is probably in Japan, has not produced an expected American Pharoah foal yet. Favorably produced a colt on March 25 by Honor Code for ow...

First, a photo from our weekend out of the house. This week, I decided to give you an update on the horses I put on my watchlist that did go through the ring at Keeneland in November 2016. In hip order, here they are. Madame Giry (in foal to Honor Code) - foal due April/May 2017 - 2016 foal born Apr 18. RNA’d so probably still in T.F. VanMeter & Brian Kahn ownership in KY. Will know more once foal is born. My Conquestadory (in foal to Tapit) - foal due any day - 2016 foal (shown below) born Feb 23. Sold to SF Bloodstock & Newgate Farm, no doubt is still in KY awaiting the birth of the foal. Promise Me Silver - no news on who she was booked to, but no doubt resides at an Adena Springs farm, probably Kentucky. ‘16 Sacred Forest - still unnamed, might be a pinhook, might not be. Nothing known at the moment. She’s Not Here - still in the U.S., probably bred to any one of these: Exaggerator, Flintshire, Daredevil, California Chrome. ‘16 Summer Soiree ...

Reenacting... Photo credit LowellandShasta Stagner, Facebook Tonight, my husband and I will be on a 3 1/2 hour drive to our next reenactment. And then we'll set up sleeping arrangements (hopefully it'll be nicer than at our last one in terms of PADDING), after of course finding our friends. Cookie will be staying behind with his buddies this time, so it's just me and my D going out. We will be back on Sunday, and Wednesday, due to lack of internet until then, I win NanoWrimo. I will only have 1 day next week to work on my book <gasp>, which is over 80,000 words already: Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, and then Friday we head out to see my mother-in-law's family, where we will be on Saturday and then in Dallas/Fort Worth on Sunday before coming back. I am excited, although once again my husband is in the band playing the ball, and I am stranded on the sidelines watching unless he gets a break to dance with me. This time, unlike last time, my sister-in-law wi...

Breeders' Cup World Championships 2016 The Breeders' Cup World Championships was a ride. I watched all thirteen of the races, four times getting the exacta, and another time getting the winner. In all, I had fourteen in-the-money finishes, spread across nine races. I struck out completely in four races. While I didn't bet, I'm going to act like I bet across-the-board on all 39 of my picks OR to show, giving you prices on how much I would've spent and how much I would've gotten back for either option. Headed out on Day 1 to see the races The Juvenile Turf was the first race on Friday. I didn't expect my C pick, Oscar Performance, to do as well as he did in a race predominately won by Europeans. But when my B pick, Lancaster Bomber, and A pick, Intelligence Cross, sat back in the field and Oscar Performance stalked the early lead on the speed-favoring Santa Anita turf course, it was all over for the others. Wellabled set the early pace, setting qu...