Good first trip, but second trip made a break. The track is pretty poor and the footing is sticky.
Category: News and Updates
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Shadow Copy – March 21, 2017 Training
Two year old Illinois filly trotter. Two trips today. The first in around 2:40 and the second in about 2:30. This is a very nice horse… She is really impressing me, everything is easy for her.
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Shadow Copy – March 18 Training
Two year old Illinois bred filly trotter. First trip cutting the mile in 2:40 with two others. Made a break at the start of the second trip. The guys with me were suppose to pull up for a restart. We always restart if any of us make a break before the 1/8th pole. But I guess they didn’t see it.
So it took a bit to get her back on the trot and I decided to just go around and restart myself for a solo trip. Second trip was her best of the year, and life, in 2:27. This was despite one guy turning to left right in front of me at my 3/4 mile mark.
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Storm Winds Training Highlights
Four year old Illinois bred trotter. This is his first trip of the day and his first trip with another horse this year. He pulls quite a bit and ran off a bit on me at the end of the mile in a 30 second quarter.
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Hypervisor Training Highlight
This is my three year old Illinois bred trotting colt. I have some doubts he will make it, but he tries very hard and is incredibly strong.
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Shadow Copy Training Highlights
This is another set of training highlights from my two year old Illinois bred filly trotter. Very cold March morning. Did well on first trip then had a mental stumble on the second trip.
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My two year old in training
Terrible morning in Illinois with 25-40MPH winds on the farm. I did train my filly this morning and here is a video of the better of the two trips. She repeatedly made breaks today in the turn past the 1/2 and 3/4 right where the wind started hitting her in the face.
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Shadow Copy
Shadow Copy as a yearling before the Illini Classic sale We added a new Filly to our stable from the Illini Classic Standardbred Sale over Labor Day weekend of 2016. She is a 2015 foaled trotting filly sired by Cassis and a Supergill mare. I renamed her when I registered her to Shadow Copy.
Update January 2018: Shadow Copy had a injury prepping for her two year old year and was turned out to heal. She is back in training now (1/23/2018) prepping for her three year old possible stakes season.
Update July 2018: Shadow Copy is doing well as far as any recurrence of her two year old injury. She has speed and a very nice gait. She gets off the gait like a pacer and broke her maiden in a very respectable 1:57.2. My only complaint is her “game day” attitude – which is sometimes lacking.
Update April 2019: Shadow Copy sufferred an injury in her last race of the spring at Pompano Park. After a period of R&R she is back in training and I expect her to be racing a Pompano Park this fall and winter.
Update April 2020: We decided start a new chapter in Shadow Copy’s life. We bred her to Dejarmbro, an Illinois Trotting Stallion, on April 4, 2020. We confirmed her pregnancy and are expecting a foal in March 2021.
Shadow Copy breaking her maiden June 19,2018 (1:57.2 Hoosier Park) -
Excelerated Speed Helmet Cam Video – Boone County Fair
This is my second video from the August 10, 2016 Boone County Fair. I decided to race my six year old mare in the Free for All pace. There were four horses in the race and we finished third. It was really just a bad drive as she should have been first, at worst second. I just can’t get her to go fast… Seems she has no respect for me and decided she really didn’t need to try the last half of the mile.
You may wonder why I didn’t use the whip on her.. If I would have hit her she would have stopped right where I hit her and probably taken me to the dirt… So she is one that you can only threaten with a whip.