CF Equine

17/11/2025

Thankful for the people who get it ❤️

❤ Surround yourself with women who want to see you win

16/11/2025

Super important part of the racing game that is way misunderstood here in AB. Starter allowances should not exist on a B track for horses valued at less than a $5000 claim tag, and catering to nobody wanting to run for a tag has over valued horses, made it more difficult to find places to run lower end claimers, made ownership less accessible, and compounds the horse population problem by reducing the incentive to keep horses going who should be running at lower tags but are now forced to run at a level above their heads if they do enter at all.

The part of claiming I’ve always loved was taking a horse and improving on it, and trying to find a diamond in the rough. Most notably in my own career, I claimed my mare Ay Italian for $3200, she went on to move up to the stakes/ allowance level that same season and won two AB bred stakes on the B track when we had an extremely nice group of mares running at that level at the time.

Last season, I had a nice solid older gelding in the barn who fit at about the $3000 claiming level. I could not get a race for him on the B track, he sat in the barn for five weeks at one point. I could get the odd race on the A track, but how does it make any sense that my horse who was running at the bottom B track claiming level couldn’t get a race there, but instead was on the A track? The A track is meant for horses that are running above the level of the B track, and yet nothing my horse fit in was written on the B track. It makes no sense.

I also remember when we ran a $2500 claiming race series years ago going 3F, the same group of older, competitive horses came back week after week and it was so great for the fans to see familiar faces return at a level they were all competitive at where it was really anybody’s race to win.

For owners wanting to get started in the sport and get racing right away, claiming something is the best way to do so, you claim it and run back fairly quickly. Reducing support for our claiming ranks discourages ownership and makes it harder for new people to get into the sport.

Not everything is a stakes or allowance horse, and that’s ok. And well written claiming races where horses are entered where they belong do wonders for the overall health of the sport.

Long an integral part of Thoroughbred racing, claimers offer affordable ownership options and can become stable stars for smaller outfits.

16/11/2025

Grade 3 winner Joey Freshwater joins the Alberta stallion ranks after beginning his career in California: https://tinyurl.com/mtbh8p3

15/11/2025

Ay Don’t Hesitate ‘Ace’ (JC pending) Ay Italian X No Hesitation 2025.

What a nice c**t he’s turning out to be, I couldn’t ask for a more intelligent, kind, and well put together baby for my first home bred.

Hope he’s fast, if he tries even half as hard as his mother did on the track, he’ll be a winner.

15/11/2025

Working every day to make all of these little dreams come true and getting closer all the time ❤️

🐴❤ and make the world a little better than I found it

15/11/2025

One’s happy to see me, the other’s just happy to see his morning grain bucket and wondering why I didn’t bring him a coffee to go with it.

14/11/2025

This fall he uprooted his life and downsized his stable to relocate to Kentucky instead of wintering in his native Texas. He’s going into Saturday’s $1.1 million Claiming Crown at Churchill Downs with a pair of longshots from his six-horse stable. So to trainer Joe Roberts, what’s another limb to step out on?

How about riding an apprentice jockey who gets a seven-pound weight allowance because she’s won only five races? That will be Amanda Poston, whose own proverbial limb was giving up a lucrative career as a software engineer four years ago at age 27 to learn how to groom, then how to gallop racehorses and finally to become a jockey.

“People may see it as taking a chance on a ‘bug' rider,” Roberts said, referring to the nickname for apprentice jockeys. “I’m all about taking chances.”

Check out the full story: https://tinyurl.com/3sdtp9es

13/11/2025

12/11/2025

Couldn’t ask for a better pony to get the babies all pony broke today than my Tali ❤️

One heck of a nice racehorse to learn from, this big bay c**t has a good teacher before he goes in to the track.

I forgot to prop the camera up for the other ones 😅

11/11/2025

Not much makes me happier than seeing horses that have come through my little program go on to be successful. Proud to support Natalie and her dedication to developing such nice sport horses right here in Alberta!