Tim Ritchey
Tim Ritchey
Timothy F. "Tim" Ritcheyis an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is best known as the trainer of Afleet Alex, a 2005 winner of two American Classic Races, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes...
cart focus routine work
We're not going to put the cart before the horse. We'll nominate him to a lot of things between now and the end of the year, but our focus is getting him back into a routine and then a work schedule.
bet cancer dollar donate entire everybody fortunate juvenile lemonade local maybe move racetrack stand states throughout united
I said before, hopefully, Belmont day, I would move for every racetrack to have a lemonade stand on Belmont day throughout the entire United States and give a dollar to the lemonade stand or their local juvenile cancer fund. And, like I said earlier, everybody who was fortunate enough to bet on this horse, makes a little money, just take $1, donate it to Alex's Lemonade Stand or local juvenile cancer fund, and maybe we can make the world a better place.
kid knows lemonade
Kid Lemonade has enough seasoning; he knows what he's doing.
closer couple figuring ideal matter prep races ready weekend weeks
There are a couple of races that weekend for us to look at, ... If we can get a prep in, I wouldn't want it to be any closer than two weeks before the Breeders' Cup. The 14th or the 15th would be an ideal scenario. It's just a matter of figuring out if he's ready to do it, and, if so, what race we want to go in.
along bunch definitely further good spots
There are a bunch of different spots that weekend. We're definitely further along than I thought we were, which is good news.
starts
We will know more after he starts galloping,
saw
When I saw him this morning, he said 'hi' to me, and I said 'hi' to him.
blowing expected harder pulling work
I expected him to be blowing much harder than he was after pulling up, being that it was his first work in two months.
feeling fine jeremy rose
He'll probably go a half-mile or five-eighths, ... Jeremy Rose will be on him. I'll tell him to go a half, and if he's feeling fine to go five-eighths.
racing return somewhere
I don't know when and where, but he will return to racing somewhere this year.
anticipate fit hours keeping muscle percent point problems putting stress tone walking
I don't anticipate any more problems because it's 99.9 percent healed. He still has a lot of muscle on him. He doesn't have a big belly. That was the point of walking him two hours a day -- keeping him fit and maintaining muscle tone without putting stress on his legs.
easy horse horses laid took
Hes a very laid back and very easy going horse and he took it better than most horses would have,
happiness happy track
He went to the track and jogged a mile, and he was very happy to get out,
cause great horse life money privileged racing raise speak
I feel privileged to be able to speak for this cause and raise money for it. It'll be a great horse race, but there's more to life than just horse racing ... and this is part of it.