by Chris McGrath | May 7, 2025 |
Build Your Horse on Rock
…While that obviously remains true once a horse reaches the
racetrack, by that stage it could already be too late.
The importance of a good grounding was underlined by both
the colts that won on Saturday. At Churchill, in fact, the point
was made in nearly surreal fashion, in terms of probabilities,
both the first two having graduated from the same pre-training
program. Sovereignty and runner-up Journalism (Curlin) may
have ended up on opposite coasts, but they started out together
at Bridlewood Farm in Florida, where their education was
supervised by Joan “Meda” Murphy.
Journalism was among the yearlings annually selected by
Bridlewood in partnership with Eclipse Thoroughbreds, both
camps having had him high enough on their Saratoga shortlists
to stretch to $825,000. And Sovereignty was that year among
the usual batch of Godolphin homebreds sent to Bridlewood to
benefit from the same instruction as Cody’s Wish.
