Hard Spun Foals

Happy Endings · Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:51 pm

GUILLAUME won race #8 at Parx today. His record is now 16-4-1-4.

video: https://www.parxracing.com/parxracingreplays.php

Happy Endings · Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:23 am

HARD LIKE HOLLY won race #2 at Hawthorne on December 4. Her record is now 19-2-0-2. She went off at 70-1. Had a bad start and gave the field a 5 length head start.

video: https://www.hawthorneracecourse.com/liv ... eplays.php

Happy Endings · Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:48 am

QUICK MASTER won race #4 at Mountaineer on Dec. 6. His record is now 11-3-2-2.

video: https://www.cnty.com/mountaineer/live-stream

and TVG.com

Happy Endings · Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:01 pm

STRIKINGLY SPUN won race #3 at Oaklawn Park today. Her record is now 2-1-0-0.

video: https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:04 pm

GASTON tied for 1st in a dead heat in race # 10 at Woodbine today. He was in tight quarters along the rail and had to wait a bit to get through, otherwise he would likely have been a clear winner. He did make it through in time to get up even with the leader and passed him just after the finish line. His record is now 7-2-3-0.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnoATLy ... ineReplays

Happy Endings · Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:31 pm

GRAND SPUN won race #7 at Tampa Bay today. Her record is now 2-1-0-0.

video: https://www.tampabaydowns.com/racing/be ... ys-details

Happy Endings · Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:17 pm

ITS ALL RELEVANT won race #4 at Aqueduct today. His record is now 43-17-6-5. He is turning 10 years old in 2 weeks. Please send him to a loving home where he can have a happy retirement.

video: https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/replays

Happy Endings · Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:56 pm

KUPUNA won race #6 at Fairgrounds today. Record: 7-2-2-2.

video: https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:58 pm

GUILLAUME won race #8 at Laurel Park today. Record: 17-5-1-4

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFiFyY ... landRacing

Happy Endings · Sat Dec 31, 2022 10:05 pm

STRUGAR won race #2 at Turfway Park today. Record: 20-5-6-1.

video: https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:35 am

SPUN INTENDED was considered by many to have a good chance in the Sham Stakes last Saturday. He was running a good race and on the far turn bumped around by two of the Baffert horses and subsequently pulled up, injured. Mysteriously, that part of the race is apparently not contained in the video replay. Foul play? Hard to know because it's not there. Apparently it was televised in the live version. I have seen people comment on Twitter questioning this omission from the replay. I did not see the race live, so am unable to have an opinion.

Horse's connections have commented on Twitter that injury is not life-threatening, but have not said what it is. Wondering if he is off the Derby trail now. Hope injury is not career-ending.

Happy Endings · Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:53 am

ANOTHER HOT MESS won race #7 at Delta Downs on January 14. Her record is now 5-2-2-0.

video: https://www.deltadowns.com/race/live-ra ... ce-replays

MTO · Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:19 pm

TWO PHIL'S in G3 Lecomte at Fairgrounds this weekend. Snippet from news article below:

https://paulickreport.com/news/triple-c ... s-lecomte/
....
Chicago-based trainer Larry Rivelli has had a very successful career (a 25% lifetime winning percentage and $35,057,723 in career earnings), but he has never had a Kentucky Derby runner. Patricia Hope and Phillip Sagan's Two Phil's could change that. With three wins in five starts, the son of Hard Spun most recently overcame tough early positioning and a sloppy track to win the Street Sense (G3) at Churchill Downs by 5 1/4 lengths.

“It's not going to ruin my day if it rains,” Rivelli said. “We won by an eighth of a mile in the slop at Churchill (Street Sense). At this point of the year, this is the best 3-year-old I've had. His numbers keep improving with each race, and every work since has been better and better. He's going to have to move up, but I think he can.”

Jareth Loveberry, Rivelli's go-to rider during many dominant years in Chicago, gets the call aboard the 4-1 morning line second choice, who drew post No. 8.

“We'd like to break and drop in somewhere,” Rivelli said. “Even if they're two-tiered and he's on the outside, I just want him to relax behind horses.”

Two Phil's finished seventh in the Breeders' Futurity (G1), nearly four lengths behind Instant Coffee.

“He would have run better in the Breeders' Futurity if he didn't have such a bad trip,” Rivelli explained. “Despite the finish, Jareth (jockey Loveberry) told me he liked the horse even more coming out of it. We learned a lot about the horse that day. In the Street Sense, he almost got the same trip. He got banged and bounced around at the break and almost got shut off again. Jareth finally got him to relax, and when he did, he just had a really cool cruising speed. He moved him out, and from the 3/8ths pole to the quarter pole he was just galloping by the other ones when they were already in a drive.”

Happy Endings · Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:15 pm

LOVELY LISA won race #3 at Mahoning Valley today. Her record is now 12-2-2-3.

video: https://www.hollywoodmahoningvalley.com ... and-replay

or

https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:42 pm

MAASAI WARRIOR won race #7 at Fairgrounds today. Had not won in 10 outings, so they finally tried him on grass and he won by nearly 9 lengths. Oddly run race. Very slow and out in the middle of the course.

video: https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:00 am

ANOTHER HOT MESS won race #8 at Delta Downs on January 28th. Her record is now 6-3-2-0.

video: https://www.deltadowns.com/race/live-ra ... ce-replays

Happy Endings · Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:21 pm

KUPUNA won race #8 at Oaklawn Park today. His record is now 8-3-2-2.

video: https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:37 pm

HEREBY won race #7 at Tampa Bay Downs today. His record is now 9-1-0-3.

video: https://www.tampabaydowns.com/racing/be ... ys-details

Happy Endings · Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:23 pm

HONEYCOMB won race #3 at Turfway today. Her record is now 10-1-1-1. She won by 7.

video: https://www.tvg.com/results

Happy Endings · Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:31 pm

TOUGH LEGACY won race #7 at Oaklawn Park today. Her record is now 4-1-0-0. She won by 5 lengths, after a slow start and sitting second to last for much of the race.

video: (race 7 starts at 13:57 on the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LvYnj ... sinoResort