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Barn Notes: Friday, June 04, 2010
In Today’s Notes:
· Letdetrumpetblare! Rescued Horse Runs Third at
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LETDETRUMPETBLARE! RESCUED HORSE RUNS THIRD AT
All hail Margo Sutter! She’s the lady who bought a young horse bound for extinction off of the back of a truck a couple of years ago before the vehicle left the country, and that horse rewarded her humanitarian instincts with a paycheck Thursday at Arlington Park.
Ms. Sutter has dedicated herself to rescuing horses for some time, but her aptly-named Letdetrumpetblare, who finished third in Arlington’s second race Thursday, was the first horse of the many she has rescued that has actually made it to the races.
Arlington-based trainer Michele Boyce, a friend of Sutter’s for several years who conditions Letdetrumpetblare for Sutter, helped fill in the details of Letdetrumpetblare’s unfortunate early days.
“I think he was either a weanling or a yearling when she bought him off the back of a killer truck as a baby because there was no market for him as a racehorse,” Boyce said. “Her attitude with Letdetrumpetblare was ‘if he can make it to the races – that’s fine – but if not, we can always find a good home for him.’
“Margo is a very dynamic person who been involved with non-profit horse rescue operations for a number of years – making sure that they all find good homes as pleasure horses,” Boyce said, “but this one is the first horse she has owned who was able to make it to the track as a racehorse. He finished fourth in the first start of his career last September here at
Although sending horses to slaughter is now illegal in the
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Thoroughbred racing fans throughout the world know that the 142nd Belmont Stakes – concluding leg of the 2010 Triple Crown and traditionally known as the test of champions – will be run Saturday on the outskirts of
However, it is entirely possible that more Europeans than American racing fans are aware that also on the Belmont Stakes Day program is the Grade I Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap – a major grass race stepping stone to the Grade I Arlington Million, which annually attracts horses from all over the world. This summer’s Million XXVIII will be run Aug. 21 over
Castleton Lyons’ Gio Ponti, who parlayed his score in last year’s Manhattan Handicap to a convincing tally in last summer’s Million, has been established as the 2-1 morning line choice in Saturday’s
Jonathan Sheppard’s Just as Well, winner of the 2009 Grade III Arlington Handicap and runner-up behind Gio Ponti in last year’s Million, is likely to be a threat once again in Saturday’s
Out on the West Coast Saturday, Bud and Judy Johnston’s Acclamation heads of full field of 12 turf runners in the Grade I Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap, another traditional prep for the Arlington Million to be run over 10 furlongs at Hollywood Park.
Acclamation won
Beginning Sunday,
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