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Elbarto SOLD!
SOLD!
GOOD LUCK BART IN THE BUSH RACES!
Bandora Sprint Quarter Horses would like to Welcome a FIRST!
We NOW have a Thoroughbred on our team!
Elbarto!
As luck would have it this very classy gelding has come to us by chance!
His TB name is "Classy Run" which is him to a T!
Bart has been re-named by our youngest son Tanna to
"ELBARTO"
If it wasn't for Tanna we wouldn't have taken him.
Thanks to the great TB trainer Michael O'Leary, he had offered Bart to us. As Michael is a great guide of what a horse is capable of he knew Bart had the ability to be a
GREAT SPRINT HORSE!
He was absolutely right!
Bart came to us after he had been turned out for awhile and it took us a bit of time to get him conditioned for sprint racing.
Bart had 12 starts on the TB tracks for 4 wins and 3 thirds racing up to 1200 mtrs, so he was no slouch!
Bart's first race for us was a 400 mtr race at Caramut, where he came up against, the sprint racing experts such as
Black Betty, Fortune Cookie, Marbenjack & Bymyside!
With the "Seasons Best Jockey" "Lenny Andrews" aboard Bart, we had great confidence in Lenny's ability to give him all chances of showing us what Bart's potential was for the remainder of the season.
He didn't let us down!
He was a very close 5th in a blanket finish!
We were very excited after that we knew with Adrian's skill of teaching him more about the game of sprint racing, we knew he had the ability of matching it with the best!
Panmure Cup 500mtrs was his next start, we had quiet hopes for Bart this day! But really he was still an unknown for what he was capable of. Watching Lenny taking him to the starting gates was a concern as Bart speed down there like a man possessed! Lenny said later he really was a handful. Once again the race field was filled with only the best horses, Price Of Love (racing in TB with a very high earnings & a huge force on the sprint racing track) she had won her last start at Caramut very easily, Rockafella, Blurr, Indy Star & Black Betty all are horses that could be contenders at the line.
As the race started it was very hard to tell who was going with the leading horse Price Of Love, soon enough the race caller called
"and here comes Elbarto storming home" it was the Price Of Love till the very last stride where Elbarto took it by a nose!
Lenny rode him to the line with everything he had.
Well done Lenny!
What a awesome race!
Next was the "Birchip Cup" 450 mtrs, we once again was unsure if he could get wound up at this distance, so we entered the race with a test for him in mind. The heat at Birchip was very intense, but the crowd and the atmosphere was just as intense with excitement!
The track looked perfect and the venue was a credit to the organisers! The field once again had its professionals and proven winners at this distance, such as Black Betty, Indy Star, Blurr, Saint Patrick's Day & The Axeman. Once again it was the pro of the field "Black Betty" to be out of the gates first and close behind her was Elbarto. Black Betty lead all the way, and to my relief to hear the caller say "and here come Elbarto making a hard run home"
and just before the line he stole the lead from Black Betty and
he won the race of the day! Once again Lenny's ride was flawless and his power of being a great whip jockey continues.
Once again the race was just an awesome one to watch,
which close racing always is!
which close racing always is!
What's next for Elbarto is the " Mortlake Cup" 500mtrs!
29th of March 2008.
If you can get there its going to be an outstanding meeting with the American's attending and I'm sure the racing will be again
very exciting!
very exciting!
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