Pinata ok?

[tmon]

Chart says she stumbled while being pulled up and was vanned off.

[jmetro]

They interviewed the trainer afterward, on TVG, and he mentioned she was suffering from heat exhaustion.  Hot weather today out at Hollywood.

Hope she comes back okay and congrats to the connections!

[Silver Charm]

The incident may be blessing.

They have gotten their value out of her already and now can give her a rest and point for the longer races later in the year.

[marcus]

mixed blessing indeed , a cause for concern to me was that she looked worried and afraid galloping out after throwing the jock , as though the horse was going through a mild shock of some kind  . i hope the rehydration process for pinata lasts at least into late august when she can resume training and prep for the bc  .  she ran a big one and got me out for the day , i\'d guess she ran a 3 to 4 point top ...
*big congradulation\'s to graph racing , and all of the horse\'s connections  ! ! ! ! ! ! ! after the race and before i heard the horse got vanned off , , i went to a block party in the red hook section of brrooklyn where i live and celeabrated the win - later a few of us went to the coffey st piers and listened to barry white on a boom box radio , watching a beautiful sunset ...

[Roger]

Pinata was vanned off as a precautionary measure.  The heat got to her, but she is ok.  Thanks for everyone\'s concern.  She will return to San Luis Rey this afternoon.  

Roger Neubauer
Graph-Racing

[Silver Charm]

Nice Buy Roger

Care to share with the rest of the world who you have your eye on today

lol

[richiebee]

Marcus:

  Didn\'t know you were a Red Hooker. What to do for the next 3 weeks with Defonte\'s closed for summer vacation?

  I like Pinata\'s trainer Peter Miller (?). When \"Mattress Mac\" Macingvale fired Miller, Miller pointed out that it was hard to train horses from the back of a furniture store.

[marcus]

yeah richiebee -  been out here since \'05 , way on the backside and except for an occasional swat team or 2 taking somebody out of my building or block , it\'s been nice + it\'s affordable ...

Is the fillie might be good enough to  major force as a 3 yo ? could be  w/ time and seasoning - we\'ll see , but that was the best run i\'ve ever seen out of a young horse .

[richiebee]

Marcus:

      Glad you are happy in \"Da Hook\". In the late 70s and early 80s I tried to get people to go in with me buying depressed real estate in Red Hook (almost all of the real estate in RH was depressed at that time). The neighborhood, blighted though it might be, is just too close to lower Manhattan not to take off.

      Unfortunately, I couldn\'t find many willing partners in the great Red Hook revival scheme, and ended up spending a lot of capital in other NY neighborhoods, mostly Ozone Park and Elmont.

      For those who have no idea what Marcus and I are babbling about, Defontes is a sandwich place on Columbia Street near the Brooklyn entrance to the Battery Tunnel. I can not possibly be objective about this, because I have been eating at Defontes for over 35 years, but this is one of the best sandwich places in NY (the secret-- the seeded hero rolls are always fresh), and Defontes potato and egg sandwiches are legendary and quite sublime.

      From the sublime to the ridiculous... the first 5 races on Belmont\'s July 4th card look more like a January 4th card on the inner tube-- 10K claimers, MSW, 4 horse 2YO stake, MCL 35 and MSW 2YO. The back of the card is slighty more interesting, with a late P4 which kicks off with 2 NYB allowance races, the Dwyer Stakes and a MCl 45 on the lawn.

      ...and then its 21 days until the Spaaaaaah....

[Silver Charm]

>the first 5 races on Belmont\'s July 4th card look more like a January 4th card >on the inner tube-- 10K claimers, MSW, 4 horse 2YO stake, MCL 35 and MSW 2YO. >The back of the card is slighty more interesting, with a late P4 which kicks >off with 2 NYB allowance races, the Dwyer Stakes and a MCl 45 on the lawn.

>...and then its 21 days until the Spaaaaaah....

Same goes for the Churchill Card on Sat. They ran the Firecracker with a field that had less gunpowder than a popgun cap. Much less. One route and the remainder of the card was claimers and maidens running from 5 to 5 1/2 to 6 furlongs. Another words last weeks garbage still sitting in the kitchen.

You are right about the spa. And Del Mar comes first. We are hitting a \"black-hole\" in sports now. Can\'t get excited about baseball.

Life seems to have no meaning now.

[miff]

Check out bloodhorse.com re Champion Jockey Fallon

[marcus]

For me , CD HOL BEL are all looking a bit \"dull\" overall right now - I\'m taking a couple weeks off and perserve my bankroll  ...
 Was it not the Brits who initially taught the world how to cheat ? ( just kidding ! )  
Perhaps they could give these cheaters  jail time instead of fine\'s and suspensions .