Thirditis!

Finishing 3rd once in a while is a great thing. It is usually a sign that your horse is progressing and moving forward, but when almost all your horses finish 3rd in their respective starts in one month, it can make you go a little looney.

Gondorf ran twice since the last update and finished 2nd in December and 3rd in January. His recent race, going 12 furlongs at Gulfstream on the lawn, was a gutsy performance. He set extremely solid fractions for the distance and only lost by 1 length at the end. He will get a bit of a freshener and come back in the Pan American going 12 furlongs at Gulfstream towards the end of March.

Albin started out the new year with a great performance finishing 3rd on the rise in class. In his race after that just last week, he was a little hard to handle and made a premature move and ended up finishing 2nd to last. He will also freshen up and potentially start the end of February in a yet to be determined race.

Prospect Knight continues to be consistent as he backed up his performance in the Tenacious Handicap (3rd in what was a weak race) with a very good 3rd in a 2 other then allowance race. We are gonna be asking the Fairgrounds Racing Secretary to write the same condition but going 9 furlongs next time as we are dying to see him get the opportunity at that distance.

Rochelle Rochelle, you guessed it, finished 3rd in her first race of 2012 and came back quickly last week to run a no chance 6th. We broke from the far outside and really never go involved. She really had no chance considering the way the track played and the trip we got. She will come back in the same spot towards the end of February.

Mr Mojo Risin has returned off his brief freshening. He looks great and while he has been a bit timid in his return to the track, he'll shake off the rust and get ready for a return start sometime in March.

The 2 year olds are doing well at Rea's Quarter Horses. The Dehere/Top Royelle filly will be leaving for Tennessee to continue her progress and will hopefully join our Arlington string in the middle of May or early June. The Johar/Bob's Bean filly, who we tried to name Val Halen but it was declined by the Jockey Club, has really moved forward and started to figure it out. Considering her breeding, she will continue to be lightly trained the next 60 days and then turned out for 90 days after that.

Both the Cactus Ridge and Yes Its True yearlings are doing really well. They have continued to grow and prosper.

No news is good news from our two foaling farms. Top Royelle should give birth towards the end of February with a Desert Party foal and Wundelia will be towards the end of March with her Yes Its True foal.