Life has been way too busy for blogging since my last installment seventeen months ago. The Retired Racehorse Training Project has become to me like a growing child. My wife, my kids, and the farm are no less important, but all have sacrificed for this new kid on the block. So has this blog.
By Teresa Genaro
9/26/13
When T. Paul Bulmahn was a little boy, his mother offered him an incentive for doing a good job with his family’s sharecropping chores on an Indiana farm. If he raked and hoed and planted well, she said, he could climb over the fence and hang out with the draft horses next door. “I loved them,” he said this week. “And they seemed to really like me as well. It began a love affair.”
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By David Grening
09/25/2013
ELMONT, N.Y. – By virtue of his victory in the Whitney Invitational, Cross Traffic earned a fees-paid berth into the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. In Saturday’s $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park, Cross Traffic must prove that’s the race in which he belongs.To date, Cross Traffic has been brilliant in victory – and perhaps more…
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By Blood-Horse Staff
09/21/2013
Several New York-based contenders for the Sept. 28 Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I) turned in their final works Sept. 20-21. At Belmont Park, trainer Todd Pletcher worked GoldMark Farm’s Whitney Invitational Handicap (gr. I) winner Cross Traffic and Dogwood Stable’s Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winner Palace Malice on the training track, while Chad Brown…
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By Mike Welsch
08/25/2013
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Cross Traffic and Mucho Macho Man, the first- and third-place finishers in the Grade 1 Whitney here Aug. 3, turned in their final workouts Sunday for their scheduled rematch in Saturday’s Grade 1 Woodward. Mucho Macho Man, who was narrowly beaten by To Honor and Serve despite an unlucky trip in the 2012 Woodward, was the…
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By Dan Illman
08/07/2013
At 5:37 pm on Saturday afternoon, 10 minutes before post time for the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap, I received a text from DRF Handicapper Mike Beer. “Cross Traffic is the best looking horse I’ve ever seen.” Cross Traffic ran to his looks in the Whitney and finally achieved a well-deserved graded victory. In his two prior races, the Grade 3…
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By The Sports Network
08/05/2013
Cross Traffic, a 4-year-old colt owned by GoldMark Farm, won for the
third time in just five career starts as he notched his first stakes
victory after seconds in the Westchester Handicap and Met Mile. “This was a real quality-filled race,” said Pletcher. “To beat the Breeders’ Cup winner (Fort Larned) and runner-up (Mucho Macho Man)
from last…
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By Claire Novak
08/03/2013
GoldMark Farm’s Cross Traffic sprung a wire-to-wire victory in the $750,000 Whitney Invitational Handicap (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 3, kicking away at odds of 7-2 while 2012 winner Fort Larned finished fifth (VIDEO). The 4-year-old son of Unbridled’s Song earned his first stakes score by three-quarters of a length and also picked up…
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By David Grening
08/03/2013
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – At the three-sixteenths pole of Saturday’s 86th Whitney Invitational Handicap, Cross Traffic had turned back Fort Larned and Mucho Macho Man – the 1-2 finishers from last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic – and opened up a two-length lead. In the middle of the track, however, Successful Dan was continuing a bid that had begun…
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By Michael Veitch
07/26/2013
Refreshed and ready for a return to action, Mylute could be sitting on a big effort in Saturday’s $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga. The Grade 2 event at 1 1/8 miles is the traditional local prep for the $1 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 24, and has drawn one of the toughest fields of recent years.
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