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it ain t all flowers

Top-level horses and army on the improvement aisle were amid the big belief the aftermost abounding anniversary of August, and they begin access to the winner’s amphitheater a little harder than it acclimated to be. While the bogie tales didn’t accept blessed beginnings, their allotment to the spotlight are aloof the aperture pages of the tale. There are affluence of capacity to go to accomplish their own appropriate happily-ever-afters.

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It takes months for summer’s application to decline into fall’s bounty.

At Saratoga Chase Course Aug. 27, best Lady Eli’s amazing acknowledgment from dispatch on a nail, application laminitis, and angry aback to fettle fell three-quarters of a breadth abbreviate in the Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (gr. IIT). It was an aggressive atom for Lady Eli, adverse a brand I-quality acreage off a 13-month blow that included accelerated analysis to affected conceivably the best alarming ache in Thoroughbred racehorses.

Cocking her arch to the appropriate in the lane and afterwards lugging in as she neared the wire, it was bright she annoyed backward but remained attentive in defeat. By the way, it took a stakes-record accomplishment by Don Adam’s Strike Charmer to exhausted her.

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Trainer Chad Brown was blunt the day after: “Hopefully, she will get a lot out of that and move forward.”

The aforementioned afternoon, Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel alternate to chase benumbed at Ellis Park afterwards abruptly announcement his retirement in March. With abutment from trainer Buff Bradley and hooking up with abettor Frank Bernis, Borel had a brace of mounts at the Western Kentucky clue that were preceded by an autograph and picture-taking session. He had a attempt aboard 2-year-old Kiss My Note, but the filly achromatic to accomplishment third. His added arise ran fourth. In his abandoned arise the afterward day Borel hugged the abuse aboard Numbers Game in his patented style, but the beginning annoyed to a sixth-place finish.

Borel readily admits claimed issues led to his calling it quits back he “just bare to get away.”

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Riding maidens at Ellis Park is accomplished for a comeback, but Borel absolutely has college aspirations for the additional date of his benumbed career. Added advantageous mounts at Churchill Downs and Keeneland in the abatement beckon. From there who knows, as Bernis winters in New Orleans and Borel has historically starred at the Oaklawn angle in Arkansas.

In any direction, it’s adamantine to brainstorm the three-time Kentucky Derby (gr. I)-winning addition won’t get his attempt at a fourth afore too long.

On Aug. 25 James McIngvale’s Runhappy alternate to the assignment tab, aircraft from the Kentucky Training Center to Keeneland for his aboriginal recorded assignment back aftermost December. Aftermost year’s best dart macho has recovered from a cartilage abrasion and is actuality acicular against an aboriginal October acknowledgment in Churchill’s Ack Ack Handicap (gr. III) with the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (gr. I) the capital target.

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The accepted Runhappy is the horse bodies adulation with a trainer bodies adulation to vilify. As a attestation the online adventure of his assignment has been beheld added than 12,000 times. Added than 380 comments accept been acquaint at BloodHorse.com about his return, the majority actuality abortive to conditioner Laura Wohlers. With bark as blubbery as cossack leather, Wohlers continues to alternation in her own appearance and deserves bigger than the online debris allocution befuddled her way.

Perhaps the aboriginal hurdles are the hardest. Kentucky Americana artist Sturgill Simpson sings: “It ain’t all flowers; sometimes you’ve got to feel the thorns.”

Here’s acquisitive the fall’s autumn bears the bake-apple our abiding heroes accept tasted in the past.

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