Sunday, 15 April 2012

Meeting and Oscar's Deli plug

The brain trust of Quest d'Or Stables met on Friday morning at Oscar's Deli minus Dean. Some have argued that the brain trust of Quest D'or Stables is actually Northern Cotton...they may have a point.

We discussed current expenses, potential revenues and future plans ( note the word potential before revenue). However this adventure turns out we all agreed that this has been a great experience and beyond our expectations in turns of scope. I mean, who'd have thought our little horse could have brought us so much excitement.

A quick word regarding Oscar's Deli ( run by co-owner Larry). Great food, great service and located in the heart of downtown. Check it out, tell  Larry that Northern Cotton sent you.

http://www.menumanitoba.com/oscarsdeli.htm 

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Not a stellar outing

Disappointment....4th place. She started fine took a quick lead and then settled back of couple of lengths behind the leader. Perfect position for her. Things started going wonky down the backstretch though as she dropped to second last place in a matter of seconds. She rallied somewhat down the stretch and finished fourth trailing the winner 7.5 lengths.

Why did she drop so quickly ? We're still waiting for a final analysis but it seems she had some congestion in her lungs and may have suffered some sort of heat stroke. As well we may have run her a bit too quickly after her last race, 2 weeks was perhaps not enough time.

The plan is to rest her for a month and then run her out of Monmouth Park ( New Jersey) in some long distance races ( 1 mile plus) .

Oh but don't despair, we are staying positive. In that race she ran against horses that have made over $100,000 and we know she can race with them. We learned a few things and have a good idea what sort of races she should be entering. She just turned three and it's early April , lots of racing still to be done .

No one said this would be easy...

Friday, 6 April 2012

Race Day minus one

Tension mounts, palms are sweaty, wife is antsy, can't think straight...today I'm doing the laundry !  Oh right and tomorrow is race day...

Got an update from co-owner Bill who is in Tampa to see the race. NC is doing great, she's filling out her frame and is looking like an adult . Bill is really impressed with trainer Jane Cibelli and her foreman Rob. They've done a great job with Cotton. If any of you are interested  here is her website

http://www.cibelliracing.com/The_Latest.html


There's a couple of really good horses in this race so it will be a tough challenge for NC . We're always looking for improvement and while a win would be great we want to see how she progresses. 

Need to run...laundry needs attention.

Pics

Here's a couple of pics of  Cotton from Tampa taken by co-owner Dean . The non-horse in the picture is Jane's foreman Rob.






Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Lineup for Cotton's race

Check out race 7

http://www.drf.com/race-entries/TAM/USA/2012-04-07/D/7

Cotton's next race....this weekend !

Her next race is this Saturday April 7 at Tampa Bay Downs.  It's the seventh race and she's running out of post position number 5. If you have the Horse racing channel via Shaw or MTS you should be able to catch the race ( but you won't catch Cotton....Heeyuk! ). The race will take place at about 2:15 PM CT . We'll be watching the race at Assiniboia Downs.

It's an allowance race so the quality of horses will be pretty high. She can do it !