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The weather was finally good today and we worked this Sunday to train most the horses at the farm.  My 2YO Filly Trotter did really well again as shown in the video with her second trip a hair under 2:23.

This filly amazes me, she does everything right.  Plenty of speed, fastest two year old on the farm right now, faster than the pacing boys.  Long way to go until stakes season and I am hoping that she stays sound and drops the next 25 seconds as well as she dropped to this point.

Good first trip, but second trip made a break.  The track is pretty poor and the footing is sticky.

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.

4 Year Old Illinois Bred Trotter (Well… mostly gallops)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.