Last week was filled with wonderful news! Rags to Riches was shipped from Ashford Farm, where she had been recuperating from her hairline fracture since last August, to Todd Pletcher's Palm Beach Downs to begin training for this year's races. She won 5 out of 6 races over her career, including the Belmont Stakes, Kentucky Oaks, and Santa Anita Oaks. She came in second to Lear's Princess in the Gazelle Stakes leading up to the Breeders Cup and was found to have an injury, supposed to be from her tumble in the Belmont. She's been on rest since then.
But Todd Pletcher said that "She wintered well and looks great. She returned to light jogging on the farm in December and began jogging here on Wednesday." So, she's had a little less than a week's official work as a racehorse again. We wish her well on her road to champion again!
They are going to let her "choose her races" over the next months, but won't press her into duty before May. And they are hoping to have her ready for the Breeder's Cup Distaff! I wish she were allowed to retire to Bluegrass country to become a beautiful blue hen, but since that's not to be -- Namaste to her big champion fabulous heart!