Twenty Puns (continued)

You should see the photo of that 1st win.  7 of the 8 Horses are in the photo.  The Horse that finished second, Devil With Class was the favorite and was owned by Mike Gill.  And here's the really fun/good news.  I had $300 in my pocket and bet a hundred to win and place and 75 to show... held onto 25 bucks to eat (just in case).  I cleared over 1600 bucks.  I don't usually bet gimmicks when my own horse is involved.

Well back to the barn we go.  Twenty Puns had a huge overbite, you can see it in his win photos, and he loved carrots.  Of course I spoiled him with carrots during the brief time he was in our barn, when he ate them carrots shavings would go all over as he munched them because of the overbite.

So, I say to Karl "do we raise him up to 16K" and Karls says "noooooooooo....."

On July 31st we ran for 12.5K again.  These races are all at Rockingham Park.  (miss that place)  Magali had days so Tammi Piermarini rode that day.  The track was as sloppy as any track could ever be, not raining during the races, but sloppy!!

Numerous scratches.  4 horse field.  Cleveland Circle, Katikopi, Devil With Class, and our hero, Twenty Puns.  Splish Splash, we win again!  Devil with Class second again :)  Forget how much I bet, not as much, paid $4.40 or something  I was very happy with the purse money.

So, do we raise him up?    Noooooooooo.......  Karls a sharp Trainer.

We ran in August one last time for 12.5K.  Our boy finished 6th and was claimed by Joe Hampshires wife, Kim.  I cleared about 10K in 5 weeks!   Twenty Puns didn't win again for almost two years and that was at the bottom for 4K.

I sure do have fond memories of that Horse.........