Posted by Avram Freedberg

Saratoga’s first day of racing is Wednesday. Ahvee’s Destiny is scheduled to run at Saratoga in race 8, an overnight stakes race, 5 ½ furlongs on the turf. Basically, overnight means it wasn’t scheduled before (many Stakes races are scheduled months in advance. However, these are most often “graded stakes.” The top grade is grade 1 down to grade 3. Overnight stakes are not graded at all.

Conseated Lady and Ofcr. Sheila T Rex breezed yesterday at Saratoga. Conseated Lady’s 37:64 for 3 furlongs and Rexy’s 1:03.07 for 5 furlongs are middle of the road times.

We’re back from Europe where I caught a bad cold on a train from Bern to Zurich. One of the passengers was coughing and sneezing throughout the trip.

There was 3 days of rain in Bern. However, we did get to go ballooning once in Switzerland. It was a lot of fun. Highly recommended! I’ll try and post some photos later this week, though my photo/PC interface skills have already had me lose photos of Jonathan’s boffo Hints performance from Saturday night. I also tried to take photos in Paris when the disk was full (leaving me without any of those photos. I used to think I was technically proficient… I guess it was just one more fantasy, of many.

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