Hard Spun Foals

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FREE AS A BIRD next won the Intercontinental Stakes on June 8, 2014 at Belmont Park. Race # 8 on the card. Her second black type stakes win in a row.

video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vImwAV_ ... index=3267

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FREE AS A BIRD's third stakes win in a row came next in the Caress Stakes at Saratoga on August 1, 2014.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Fr ... &FORM=VIRE

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HIDDEN SCROLL nominated to G3 Count Fleet Stakes - 6 furlongs dirt - Saturday 4/18/2020 at Oaklawn Park

Nominations:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061
PPs:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061

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HIDDEN SCROLL nominated to G3 Count Fleet Stakes - 6 furlongs dirt - Saturday 4/18/2020 at Oaklawn Park

Nominations:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061
PPs:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061

Great to see him back in action, but I hope he goes somewhere else. Hard Spun's worst race was there. Jones said he didn't like the surface. No Hard Spun baby has ever done anything of note there.

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HIDDEN SCROLL nominated to G3 Count Fleet Stakes - 6 furlongs dirt - Saturday 4/18/2020 at Oaklawn Park

Nominations:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061
PPs:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061

Great to see him back in action, but I hope he goes somewhere else. Hard Spun's worst race was there. Jones said he didn't like the surface. No Hard Spun baby has ever done anything of note there.

Racing is just about halted due to Covid. Can't be choosy about tracks when most of them are shut down. Where else do you suggest he run a graded stakes?

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HIDDEN SCROLL nominated to G3 Count Fleet Stakes - 6 furlongs dirt - Saturday 4/18/2020 at Oaklawn Park

Nominations:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061
PPs:
https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHor ... 418-559061

Great to see him back in action, but I hope he goes somewhere else. Hard Spun's worst race was there. Jones said he didn't like the surface. No Hard Spun baby has ever done anything of note there.

Racing is just about halted due to Covid. Can't be choosy about tracks when most of them are shut down. Where else do you suggest he run a graded stakes?

Wait until other tracks open, perhaps, I don't know. Not my call. Just pointing out that Hard Spun offspring have a horrible record at Oaklawn. Hidden Scroll is just getting started back into running and I worry about him getting discouraged all over again. Maybe he will be an exception and handle the track fine. I could suggest Gulfstream, which is open and he has run well there in the past.

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Timeline entered in a claiming race at Oaklawn on Saturday, April 18. Sorry to see this.

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Timeline entered in a claiming race at Oaklawn on Saturday, April 18. Sorry to see this.

That's disappointing. He was never setting the world on fire, but he is/was a pretty classy dude. Isn't he still intact? It's surprising to me that nobody (a la Spendthrift or a regional farm) has tried to make a stud deal for him.

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HIDDEN SCROLL entry -G3 Count Fleet Stakes - Oaklawn Park 4/18/2020

Tough race for a G3.

Entries https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/O ... html#RACE8

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Horrible finish for Hidden Scroll. He stopped like he dropped an anchor. The track? I hope that was it.

Timeline a well distanced last.

I rest my case about this track. Hard Spuns do awful there.

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Blinkers were the ticket for Hard n'Sweet today. Poor horse has an improperly spelled name. It should be Hard 'n' Sweet or sometimes Hard 'n Sweet. Never the way it is. Ignorance is bliss for some people.
Anyway, the horse with the improperly contracted "and" in his name was a winner today by 12 lengths! In race #3 at Tampa Bay. And he was claimed.

Replay will be up here tomorrow, I guess: http://www.tampabaydowns.com/racing/replays-details

Meanwhile, it's here: https://www.tvg.com/results

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ATTACHMENT RATE and NECKER ISLAND nominated to the new Unbridled Stakes at Gulfstream Park Sat Apr 25, 2020

A new dirt stakes for 3yos that was recently created due to the large amt of horsed at Gulfstream plus limited stakes options anywhere in the US due to Covid.

ATTACHMENT RATE still listed as possible for Arkansas Derby.

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ATTACHMENT RATE and NECKER ISLAND nominated to the new Unbridled Stakes at Gulfstream Park Sat Apr 25, 2020

A new dirt stakes for 3yos that was recently created due to the large amt of horsed at Gulfstream plus limited stakes options anywhere in the US due to Covid.

ATTACHMENT RATE still listed as possible for Arkansas Derby.

Here's hoping they go at Gulfstream. This is going to be an upside down year for the 3-year-olds!

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Free As A Bird then won her 4th stakes race in a row in the Smart and Fancy Stakes at Saratoga on August 25, 2014.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ieDDj0Txic

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HARD STORY - DNF. Pulled up and walked off. Fonner Park Race 9 Tue April 21, 2020

Chart:

http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/instant. ... c&print=on

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SPINOFF Entry - Gulfstream race 11 Sat 4/25/20 - Allowance 7 furlongs dirt.

ATTACHMENT RATE and NECKER ISLAND Entries: Gulfstream race 10 - Unbridled Stakes 1 1/16 mile dirt.

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Trainer Stanley Hough entered both Necker Island and South Bend in the Unbridled with the intention to start only one and running the other in next weekend's English Channel, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-olds.

“I'll probably run Necker Island on the dirt and South Bend on the grass,” Hough said. “But I did want to try Necker Island on the grass also and I did want to try South Bend back on the dirt.”

Necker Island, who is owned by Hough and Sagamore Farm LLC, closed out his 2-year-old season with a maiden victory at seven furlongs and an optional claiming allowance win at a mile around one turn at Churchill Downs. The son of Hard Spun finished fifth in the seven-furlong Swale (G3) at Gulfstream Feb. 1 and fifth in the Gotham (G2) at Aqueduct in his two starts this year. Both races were won by Mischevious Alex.

“Going seven-eighths, the speed got away. There wasn't anything he could do about it. I think a mile and a sixteenth will be better at Gulfstream,” Hough said. “He came back against the same horse going a mile, but again I think the two turns will be better for him.”

Sagamore Farm LLC's South Bend ......” Hough said. “If I should run him, then I'll probably run Necker Island next week on the grass.”

https://www.paulickreport.com/news/thor ... ed-stakes/

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This is from early March, but I just now saw it. I'll take anything I can get on this guy! SPUN TO RUN!


https://twitter.com/HoganEquine/status/ ... 08450?s=20

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Another photo of SPUN TO RUN the day before getting a bubble bath! He's so handsome.

https://twitter.com/HoganEquine/status/ ... 50752?s=20

And this shows why he probably needed a bath (though this particular episode was a month earlier): https://twitter.com/HoganEquine/status/ ... 04453?s=20

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ROCKETRY at 2: https://twitter.com/Centennial_Farm/sta ... 68642?s=20