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Danielle Hodsdon and Jonathan Sheppard had a very good week – in public.

They call this a prep race?

Jonathan Kiser is smiling.

Arch Kingsley immediately said the only word that came to mind when he almost parted ways with Bill Fossett’s You The Man early in the Jonathan Kiser Stakes.

“Stirrup. Stirrup. Stirrup. Stirrup. Stirrup. Stirrup. Stirrup.”

Training horses makes you think. Scott Fairlie thought about the 10-minute wait to find out his fillyMilwaukee Appeal lost the Prince of Wales Stakes, second leg ofCanada’s Triple Crown, by a nose.

Graham Motion melted into the corner of the corner clubhouse box, two rows from the top, for Friday’s feature. His wife Anita rooted, his daughter Jane yelled. Motion sat, well, motionless, biting his thumb for the last quarter-mile of the Grade II Lake Placid.
Shared Account resolutely galloped to the line of the 9-furlong stakes. Sagamore Farm’s 3-year-old filly held off Keertana by a length with Katara closing for third.

OK, we got motivated. Ryan, Joe and I were humbled in the Fasig-Tipton 5K. Not necessarily by our time, Ryan and I made the first page of results, but by how we felt. I felt like a lead pony by the last race; hot, tired, getting bumped around, spur marks on my side, steel shoes heavier by the step, wishing for the finish.

Danielle Hodsdon and Jonathan Sheppard had a very good week – in public.
The jockey and trainer put the finishing touches on Forever Together;the Eclipse Award winner promptly went out and won her second DianaHandicap. Two days later, Sheppard ran a jumper in a mile-and-a-halfturf race and put up a jump rider; Sermon Of Love and Hodsdon did therest. Three days later, the real big horse of the barn stepped up againto win the A.P. Smithwick Memorial, the first Grade I steeplechase ofthe meet. That’s a good week.

By Karen Johnson

Trainer Tony Dutrow modestly took himself out of the equation whenasked what his role has been in the development of the undefeated CatMoves, the morning-line favorite in Today’s Grade I, $300,000 TestStakes.

Nick Zito heard the magic words. John Hettinger. “Sit down,” Zito says.