Washington-Breds Week 12 and My First Win of the Year!

First, let me pound my chest and scream "I finally won a race!" over the July 4th weekend! This was the second longest drought of lack of success I have ever had. The first longest drought was my lack of success with women from age 1 to 38. (Editor's Note: My wife just informed me that the drought is still on.)

Washington-breds won 20 of the 33 (60.6060606060606060%) races over 4th of July weekend.

Washington Stallions with multiple Washington-bred winners last weekend include:

Harbor the Gold 4
Outing 2
Private Gold 2

Kudos to non-Washington-breds Stopshoppingdebbie and Assessment who put in great performances to win. Nice to see that at the age of 10 Assessment still has got it.

Some of the Washington-bred highlights from last weekend:

(1) Cadenza - Nice first time out win for this son of Private Gold out of Slew Tunes (Slewdledo). Purchased for $9,000 by Glenda Roberts of Glenda Roberts fame. She was suppose to call the horse Credenza due to her addiction to purchasing furniture at IKEA, but was entering the name at the Jockey Club website on a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal and accidentally put in Cadenza.

Luckily for Glenda, a Cadenza is an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing for virtuosic display (I simply have no idea what this means). Because the broodmare is "Slew Tunes" she can say she was looking for a musical term to call the horse. Lucky and well played.

Cadenza hopped at the start and gave the field several lengths before running them down in the stretch. Impressive first start for this horse.

A video of Private Gold, sire of Cadenza, for your viewing pleasure:

(2) Mebossman - By Petionville out of Broodmare of the Year Peaceful Wings, Mebossman took a Allowance Optional Claiming NW1X race by 6 3/4 lengths. Every other horse in the race was in for a tag, but Mebossman was still eligible because he had only won one race even though he is Multiple Stakes Placed. A picture of Mebossman as a youngin' with her mom (taken by Terra Lee):

Anything worse than vegetarians? Probably not.

(3) Tsarina Haven - By Harbor the Gold out of Princess Affair, Tsarina Haven won a very good open $20,000 claiming race beating Lexie Arleen and See My Tail Lights.

See you all at the track this weekend. Track looks like it will be sloppy and about 40 degrees so bring a rain jacket and gloves.

Always Love Your Animals,

Will