I stopped by Leah Gyarmati's barn at Belmont yesterday, and arrived just in time to see our colt have a brisk workout on the training track. It wasn't an official timed work, but Leah had the exercise rider let Strings and Arrows drop his head and open up through the final three furlongs. He's looking bigger and stronger all the time.
Depending on the track condition, with bad weather expected the next few days, Strings and Arrows should have an official breeze sometime this week. Leah is leaning toward looking for a race for him in the first half of January, probably at six furlongs, although we expect that eventually he'll be better at longer distances.
I also visited with Talking Blues yesterday at Bruce Brown's barn at Belmont. Our horse was eating happily, having already been to the race track. Bruce and CVF Racing Manager Steve Zorn were there as well, and they agreed that our next target for Talking Blues is the New York-bred maiden claiming race, going two turns, on New Year's day, January 1st.
Of course, there's no guarantee the race will go, or that something won't come up on the overnights before then, but, with no racing scheduled between today and Christmas, there aren't all that many racing days before the 1st.
As for jockeys, Bruce and Steve talked about Rosie Napravnik, David Cohen and Channing Hill as possibilities. Basically, Bruce will try to get the best possible jockey from among those that are available at Aqueduct on that day.
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