Why the lack of updates ?

You may have noticed the lack of  recent updates regarding the activities of our favorite horse. There was a reason. We entered NC into an optional claiming race of $75,000 ( the one where she just finished second ) . What does that mean and why all the hush hushiness ?  It means that anyone could have claimed ( i.e. bought) NC prior to the race starting  for $75,000. Of course  the buyer would have to be present at Tampa Bay Downs to actually make the claim. We would still have gotten our share  of the purse for that race (plus the $75,000) but NC would no longer belong to us.  We didn't want that to happen so we kept things quiet. Now the odds of NC being claimed were pretty slim. Would anyone invest that amount of money into a horse that won a race way back in September from a relatively obscure track in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Probably not,  but given her bloodlines, you never know.  A claim was not  made and she is still ours !

You may be asking yourself, is this blog so influential that horse players across the world are scrutinizing it ? While I like to think so , I'm fairly certain the only people looking at it are friends and family that I've emailed a hundred times " Hey, here is the link to my blog! ". We may get commodity investors searching on the words northern and cotton , hoping to cash in on some cotton variant growing near Yellowknife , but that's probably it. Of course, you are reading it right now and that's what's important !