A Day in the Life of a Race Horse

on a cold Saturday in February most of barn 13 is silent at Hollywood Casino in Charlestown races but there's an exception she's getting antsy cuz it's race time her name is mom zip a four year old filly running in the first race of the night she's the favorite to beat seven other females when we met her at five o'clock two hours and 15 minutes before race time she was already well into her race day routine she usually just walked the morning of the race you know get a nice healthy lunch and come in we'll get it ready for the race you know get her cleaned up and get her brushed up and ready to go Jeff Ronco is the most successful trainer ever at Charlestown he'll soon win his 3,000th career race something only about 25 trainers have ever done in thoroughbred racing history at 5:15 he was waiting on the track vet to give mom zip a clean bill of health every horse gets inspected before every race mostly what we're looking for is lameness that would not pass up on the racetrack Alana's that would prevent a horse from racing to the best of its ability the doctor had already scratched two horses what did she think of mom zip looks great very good it's six o'clock now a little over an hour until the race that's when Marc bleeding the groom makes his final preparations making sure that she's cleaned up the right bridle make sure the bandages are on make sure to paddock blankets clean some of Breeden's final touches are essential it cleans out mums shoes to make sure they're free from compacted dirt others are purely aesthetic like this shiny coat on her hoof serves only to make her as pretty as possible think of it as an equine pedicure Bronco and Breeden say horses can tell when it's race day the unusual routine is a dead giveaway after her final grooming it's 6:15 oh she gets anxious yeah I can tell by the looks in her eyes you should get real classy going to the races they know where they're going and like Jeff was saying she's been training very well so I think tonight should be awful salty can you tell she's gonna have a good night or not yes sir and tonight she'll win about 20 minutes before race time mum's it and the other horses in race number one are led from the barns over my shoulder here to the paddock led by mark breeding mom zip trots excitedly into the paddock it's here that betters get their first glimpse of the horses mum zip gets her saddle affixed she takes another stroll around the paddock Ronco and jockey Antonio Lopez chat one last time before hearing mom zip was the morning line favorite and now even more people think she'll win the odds change right up to the start of the race but there's one constant number 7 is the most popular pic to win the race is one in 1/16 miles the starting gate on the far side of the track the horses will pass one time in front of the fans before circling their way back to the finish line it's 7:15 time to race at the quarter Pole mum zip is running in third when the horse is passed by the grandstand she's still in third about 40 seconds passed before they reappear to stretch run and mum is stuck in second second decimal she could do no better the favorite beaten by the number 4 horse her name is Adelia she was the second favorite ran well just made a move just a little bit early and no other was was just the best tonight you know she ran fine you know I'm satisfied with the way the filly runs she'll come back and win that race but just uh just won quite good enough tonight an entire day's preparation over in one minute and 52 seconds for moms if it's her seventh second place finish seventeen career races she's won twice she tries every time she gives it her all just the other horse was better tonight rooster three pounds over and

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Keywords: 02, 22, 11, HORSE, RACE, DAY, PKG, MPEG1, Web, NTSC

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Length: 3min 54sec (234 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 29 2012