Don Walsh

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What attracted you to the horse racing industry?  I was introduced to racing by a friend who was a regular horseplayer.  On the first day we went, we split a pick 3 or pick 4 tickets that ended up winning, and it was a signer to boot. That’s all it took to get me to be a fan.  What aspect of horse racing do you enjoy the most? I enjoy so many parts of the sport: the puzzle that each race presents to me as a handicapper; the people in the community that I have met; sometimes just being outside…
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Kind of a Big Dill – Part 8

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Kind of a Big Dill is happily recovered and training again, per our last update. His workouts are continuously improving and he is galloping into his first barrel series that starts in April. We are incredibly excited that KOABD, formerly Vineyard Harbour of WV Stables, has made such a wonderful recovery and is now ready to compete again. His trainer Samyi has been working hard to get him back into tip-top shape for his first competition. With only about two and a half months to go before the barrel races, he still has some work to do but is getting…
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January 2020- On the Farm Report

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Cookie As the calendar turns to 2020, Wasabi's breeding program celebrates the official birthdays of its first homebred 2YO, the Jump Start-Waveland filly (nicknamed Whoopie Pie), currently in training in Virginia, and three homebred yearlings:  the Golden Lad-Campaign Vows filly (Cookie) and the colts by Great Notion-Magical Point (Mousse) and Blofeld-Analyzeyurspending (Animal Cracker).  All of the newly-turned yearlings are currently residing at St. Omer's Farm in Maryland, awaiting probable trips to Delaware in the next few weeks to become Delaware Certified. Mousse Now that it's January, that also means we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the first of 16 Wasabi-bred foals expected this spring.  Although…
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Brian Leckie

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What attracted you to the horse racing industry? The first time I visited a racetrack, my mother was pushing me around in a stroller at Belmont Park when I was 6 months old in 1991. While I have no memory of being at the 1993 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita, my earliest memory of being at the track was rooting Julie Krone home in the upper part of the Monmouth Park grandstand at 4 years old. My uncle has been bringing me to Monmouth since I was a toddler, and I fell in love with racing immediately. My childhood basically…
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Jeff Musgrove

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Jeff Musgrove is one of our graduate club members, meaning he buys 20% or more of our horses! What attracted you to the horse racing industry? I was lucky to have a Father and an Uncle who loved horse racing and would take me to Pimlico as a kid almost every weekend. So, I grew up loving the sport and had a goal of one-day having ownership in a racehorse. My Father and Uncle have both passed away and I have reached the goal of horse ownership as a tribute to them What aspect of horse racing do you enjoy…
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Jenny and Dave Brown

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What attracted you to horse racing? Jenny: The very first Derby I remember, was when I was in Elementary School, it was the year Winning Colors won. Who wouldn't be hooked after that?! I didn't grow up in a racing family or near a track, so had to figure out that there was so much more to the sport than just the Classic races. That was all pre-internet and pre-TVG, so you can imagine how hard that was. On that note, I love that my girls will be able to say that they come from a “racing family”. Dave: I…
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Tom Erisman

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What attracted you to the horse racing industry?   When I was 9 years old I remember watching the 1968 Kentucky Derby on TV and even then, it seemed more glamorous and so different from the team sports that I followed as a kid in PA.  I did not fully understand the aftermath of that race with the DQ of Dancer's Image (for butte) but that beautiful gray definitely made an impression and afterwards, I followed the triple crown races every year.  Then, after I attended my first Preakness in 1982 all bets were off!!  And since 1991 I have owned the same Grandstand…
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