Smarty Jones' Kids

Jane · Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:23 pm

...and we have a WINNER-Smarty Aya at Puerto Rico

tachyon · Thu Mar 13, 2014 12:27 pm

Jane wrote:
tachyon wrote:Noble Jewelry(USA) is slated to run her final race in the G3 Nakayama Himba Stakes 1800m turf at Nakayama March 16th before she will be a broodmare.

Thanks tachyon, I will have to admit when I saw this I was upset that she will be retiring but happy for her at the same time. She will be a great mom just like Keiai. But I will miss her so!!! Racing is so hard on them, she will love retirement. Thank again tachyon

Noble Jewelry has been entered to the G3 Nakayama Himba Stakes.
This is going to be her first attempt at the distance (1800m).

She had her final workout on the uphill track at Ritto Traning Center March 12.
She looked great!!!
Let's hope she will go out a winner!!!

-- replay of her final workout at Ritto on March 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okezrjIeafo

-- her past performances
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001111154/record/

Jane · Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:21 pm

^thanks tachyon, she looks great as always!!! Hope the same

tachyon · Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:18 am

THE LAUREL R.C.SHO NAKAYAMA HIMBA STAKES(G3)

March 16, 2014, 1800m, Turf
INT F&M DES, Handicap, 4-Year-Olds & Up, Open Class, Value of race: 67,470,000 Yen

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th total
Added Money (Yen) 35,000,000 14,000,000 8,800,000 5,300,000 3,500,000 66,600,000
Stakes Money (Yen) 609,000 174,000 87,000 0 0 870,000
Total (Yen) 35,609,000 14,174,000 8,887,000 5,300,000 3,500,000 67,470,000

http://japanracing.jp/en/information/jr ... esult.html

tachyon · Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:46 am

Noble Jewelry's major rivals in her swan song race:

Excellente Cave(JPN) M5 Daiwa Major x Indiana Curve by A.P. Indy
G3 winner in her last time out

Hula Bride(JPN) M5 Gold Allure x Hikaru Carina by Mejiro McQueen
G3 winner

Quatre Feuilles(JPN) M5 Deep Impact x One for Rose by Tejano Run
G3 placed

Aromatico(JPN) M5 King Kamehameha x Nasca by Sunday Silence
two-time G1 placed

Agnes Waltz(JPN) M7 Zenno Rob Roy x Merlot Sweet by Hector Protector
G1 placed

Ever Blossom(JPN) F4 Deep Impact x Sakurasaku by Danehill
G1 placed

-- win odds as of Saturday Closing

Excellent Cave 4/1 (fav)
Hula Bride 5/1
Aromatico 6/1
Quatre Feuilles 7/1
Nobori Diana 8/1
Noble Jewelry 8/1

This is Noble Jewelry's first appearance at Nakayama course.
And she never run in the distance longer than 1600m before.
But I believe that she can get the distance as well as the course if she can relax in the early part of the race.
I always believed that she would become a graded winner since her impressive debut win.
It was a shame that she was put in a wrong race in her third career start with a short rest from her second start. She had a period of ill health due to that mismanagement (in my opinion).
But, fortunately, she regrouped and gained her form gradually to be a graded contender.

I will be out of town tomorrow.
Please visit http://japanracing.jp/en/index.html to see quick result & replay.
post time of the race: 01:45 Sunday (EST) or 22:45 Saturday (PST)

Go, Noble Jewelry!!

second_glance · Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:56 pm

Some good news for Smarty as broodmare sire -- he now has a black-type winner.

3yo Quasar (Seeking the Dia - Belle Jour), running in India, won a G3-IND prep race for the Indian Derby!

Here's the video. He breaks from gate 3, jockey has red helmet, yellow shirt. Caller pronounces his name something like "KAY-ser"

http://rwitc2.ext.switchmedia.asia/vide ... 031/714905

WarBiscuit · Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:18 pm

Both Concealed Identity and Indian Jones are entered in the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes at
Laurel Park this Saturday (3/22/14).

$100,000 Purse - 3yo's and up - 1 and 1/8 Miles - Race 8 - 3:55pm

Go get 'em boys...

WarBiscuit

Jane · Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:47 pm

...and we have a WINNER- Torac in Mexico - gate to wire!!

WarBiscuit · Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:53 pm

Indian Jones 5th, Concealed Identity 6th, in the Harrison E. Johnson at Laurel...

WarBiscuit

second_glance · Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:25 pm

Sporty won his first steeplechase race of the season, at Aiken! His trainer may have been the most surprised. He has feet issues and had been barefoot for months, just got shoes back on last week. So Julie had no idea what to expect.

If his tender tootsies are okay, he'll try a novice stakes next weekend!

second_glance · Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:42 pm

Run Smart One finished 3rd today in his 88th start. He has been in the money in 4 of his 5 starts this year.*

*Ranked #4,888 of 25,584 Horses with $11,089 in Earnings in 2014

Isn't He Clever also finished 3rd, in a stakes race he won last year.*

Ranked #1,313 of 25,584 Horses with $29,040 in Earnings in 2014

onecalicocat · Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:41 pm

Run Smart One:
His physical limitations as a race horse are obvious.
There is really no reason why he should even be competitive but he perseveres.
I hope Budhoo will retire him if he can no longer compete at $5,000 Calder races.
I think it would be an insult to drop him below that level.

Jane · Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:07 pm

onecalicocat wrote:Run Smart One:
His physical limitations as a race horse are obvious.
There is really no reason why he should even be competitive but he perseveres.
I hope Budhoo will retire him if he can no longer compete at $5,000 Calder races.
I think it would be an insult to drop him below that level.

Hi onecalicocat:
I was thinking about you while I was talking to Mr. Budhoo-you are right about the limitations and RSO knows it. The race was to long and he just held back! that is one smart horse. Mr. B said he realizes RSO is older has run almost 90 races and he said he will only race him every 15 or 20 days or when RSO wants to!!!!! I was a little concerned about him being claimed but Mr B no worries-RSO bites and kicks, so you have to know how to handle him and Mr. B seems like the only one who can. He doesn't work him out unless RSO needs to!! and Mr B seems to know when that is. He just doesn't want to run him a lot. We never got around to reitirement-he had another call, so we said bye. Mr. Budhoo is one good trainer and knows RSO well! I enjoy talking to him! I feel like Mr. B will do what is right for RSO because he knows RSO always give 110%. Be blessed!!!dks

onecalicocat · Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:27 am

Jane:

Thanks for the update on Mr. Budhoo and Run Smart One.
I'm glad you are getting information from him directly.
Every 15 to 20 days is a pretty heavy schedule for any race horse but he runs against a lot of the same horses time and time again and Run Smart One seems to be able to pace himself and not overdo it when he can't get the win.
I wonder if they could test him for intelligence -- he definitely has a high IQ for racing within his abilities.
Surprised that he bites and kicks -- has perfect manners in the gate.
I am always taken with horses that have real personalities. Run Smart One is definitely in that class.
My three favorite "personality" horses of all time are -- Smarty, Alysheba and Dr. Fager (who goes back a ways).
Before that there was Silky Sullivan and Seabiscuit but I am not that old. to have seen them.
I know John Henry was a handful -- and Funny Cide and Lava Man became stable ponies because they loved being around the track.
Can't leave out Ruffian and Zenyatta on the female side.
Nowadays, they retire most of the three-year-old so they can't establish much of a personality.

Jane · Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:53 pm

this is Smarty's newest baby-- by Smarty-Willa On the Move by Two Pundh, foaled 3-11-14. A beautiful ch filly: Willa On the Move is a G3 winner-way the go Smarty. beauty in motion:
https://www.facebook.com/MarylandTB/pho ... =1&theater
and another:
https://www.facebook.com/MarylandTB/pho ... =1&theater

second_glance · Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:20 pm

Smarty's baby half-sis, by Lookin at Lucky, now has a name: Pokolbin Girl.

Jane · Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:12 pm

This is GREAT! INDIAN JONES has received 3 awards, including PA Horse of the Year for 2013. Great article:
http://www.drf.com/news/parx-racing-ind ... -best-2013

so proud of him!!!!, he is so deserving.

second_glance · Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:30 am

I could cry: big, beautiful (and crooked as hell), stakes-winning I'll Show Them, who has been off track since last July, is coming back -- in a $5K claiming race. The conditions are a bit unusual; hoping the connections are just trying to sneak him through an easy one.

http://www.equibase.com/static/entry/HA ... html#RACE1

Jane · Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:45 pm

second_glance wrote:I could cry: big, beautiful (and crooked as hell), stakes-winning I'll Show Them, who has been off track since last July, is coming back -- in a $5K claiming race. The conditions are a bit unusual; hoping the connections are just trying to sneak him through an easy one.

http://www.equibase.com/static/entry/HA ... html#RACE1

I was so upset when I saw that-I just kept looking at the 5,000 and thinking I was looking at it wrong. He is the favorite and 5,000 would certainly be a bargain. Just wondering it they a trying to have him claimed because of his front?

second_glance · Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:05 pm

second_glance wrote:I could cry: big, beautiful (and crooked as hell), stakes-winning I'll Show Them, who has been off track since last July, is coming back -- in a $5K claiming race. The conditions are a bit unusual; hoping the connections are just trying to sneak him through an easy one.

http://www.equibase.com/static/entry/HA ... html#RACE1

won easily -- and was claimed by Michael Reavis, who once trained Devil in Disguise.