No, I've not stopped blogging -- I've just been real busy -- flying back and forth to Washington, D.C. for the past week (I am actually blogging from a hotel room now). To make a long story short, I've taken a new job and am in the process of training my replacement for my old position... more later on how the new job will effect my blogging availability. With his regular jockey, Robby Albarado, aboard, Curlin breezed seven furlongs in company with a 4-year-old stablemate named Hawaii Calls. With the "dogs" spaced far out on a firm turf course, Curlin spotted his workmate a length or two when passing under the wire the first time on the seven-furlong course. They stayed that way for the first half-mile or so, after which Curlin crept closer from the outside. Turning for home, they were virtually even, after which Curlin edged away to finish about a neck in front when passing the wire a second time. The final clocking for Curlin was 1:31.20, which Asmussen called a "very good time with the dogs out as far as they were." Equibase clockers caught the final quarter-mile in 24.20 seconds and the final furlong in 12.20. The gallop-out time for a mile was 1:45.60.
Curlin worked seven furlongs over the Churchill turf today, marking the start of what could end up being a try at the Arc de Triomphe at Lonchamp in France this October.
From The Daily Racing Form:
Although this time was nothing special, Steve Asmussen is a trainer who is known to send his horses out for conservatives works leading up to a race... so the fact that the time was reasonable, means that Curlin showed he didn't hate the surface and should prove good enough for those watching the workout tab.
The colt's next start will come on July 12th in either the Man O' War (GI) at Belmont Park or Arlington Handicap (GIII) in Chicago, and a work leading up to that race will be on the dirt. Obviously the age-for-weight Man O' War is a better selection for the colt, although his minority owners Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion, the partners in Midnight Cry Stable, have license issue in New York state as they are currently in a Kentucky jail and are on trial charged with fraud related to the fen-phen class-action case where they bilked some $60+ million in funds from over 400 clients.
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His next start will be the 12th IF they can get the licensing issues with Midnight Cry straightened out. At the rate it's taking the jury to decide a verdict it may be the 12th before it's decided and Jackson can purchase Midnight Cry's interest.
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