It's been a rollercoaster ride just this week with a colt breaking loose Monday as Chocolate Candy was working. The loose colt instead slammed into a 2 year old filly, knocking her down and landing on her with fatal injuries resulting. The loss of a promising 2 year old is always saddening but underscores why to many a loose horse is always cause for alarm. At some stables it's not that big of a deal but seeing things like this changes everything.
Chocolate Candy
2 May 2009
24 February 2009
In the El Camino Real on Valentine's Day, my sweetheart Chocolate Candy delivered a win to swell the hearts of his supporters. Although this previously confirmed come-from-behinder was a bit too fresh too early, landing in an unaccustomed position on the lead with a lot of stretch left to cover,
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20 February 2009
own. When Derby prep season started I admired Old Fashioned but rooted on Chocolate Candy, Hello Broadway and Capt. Candyman Can, among others. I still do like those three very much. But at the moment, Old Fashioned seems to actually want the Derby more than anyone else, and since none of his connections are among the crowd I customarily root against (I'm a race fan with personal likes and dislikes, way more than a lover of "the action"), I may as well cry uncle. He seems to want it so much and have so much talent that I want it for him. His focused intent in every race reminds me of Invasor. I always felt it would kill Invasor to lose, which happened to him only once. I feel the same way about Old Fashioned.
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27 January 2009
Sid and Jenny Craig's homebred, Chocolate Candy, winner of the California Derby as well as the Real Quiet Stakes, is my current very early favorite to watch for the Kentucky Derby. I love his breeding - he's by first year sire Candy Ride out of the Seattle Slew mare Crownette - and the look of him in full flight is riveting. Each stride seems to float him in the air a beat longer than the other horses. His high front leg action gives him the look of a turf horse, but Barbaro and Secretariat, for two, ran the same way. His front leg action is wide as well, a worry in some people's eyes, but his way of going looks all of a piece. He reaches out to the very full exent of his front legs, and the length of that reach is especially eye-catching.
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