Snifters Spirit

Spirit is the only foal of a horse very near and dear to my heart, Snifter. My father trained Stakes-placed Snifter for her entire racing career, from age 3 to 7. We retired Snifter to make her a momma, but she died a couple of months after her only foal, a colt, was born. He was named for her, in her honor, and thus, is known as Snifters Spirit. He is a 2yo now currently in training at Louisiana Downs under Bret Calhoun. He will be a sprinter, primarily, maybe up to 7f. His sire is Captain Countdown (www.captaincountdown.com) who was a Texas Champion. Spirit is a Texas bred, and Breeders' Cup accredited thoroughbred. Here are his works, I will add more as he does them.

1st work ever.... in the slop!

Date: September 24, 2006
Track: LOUISIANA DOWNS
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 40:00 Breezing
Track Condition: Sloppy
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 12/14

2nd work, much better!

Date: September 28, 2006
Track: LOUISIANA DOWNS
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 37:40 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 8/10

3rd work, stretching out now!

Date: October 4, 2006
Track: LOUISIANA DOWNS
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 48:60 Handily
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 9/13

4th work, this is SUPER fast for a 2 year old! He's gonna be a good one!! Because it was the fastest of all 12 horses that worked this distance, it's called a 'bullet work'.

Date: October 11, 2006
Track: LOUISIANA DOWNS
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 47:40 Handily
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 1/12

5th work... Now this is something, Spirit broke from the gate (hg, handily from the gate), meaning that even though he had the 2nd fastest work of these 3, his would be considered better because he started from a stop, vs the other ones were already running when their work started (b for breezing). This is Spirit's first gate work, and he did well!! Each 0.2 sec (1/5th sec), is equal to 1 horse length, so 5 lengths per second.

Date: October 18, 2006
Track: LOUISIANA DOWNS
Distance: Five Furlongs
Breed Type: Thoroughbred
Surface: Dirt
Track: Fast
Horse NameTimeNotesRank
HOH FLYER HOH (LA) 1:03.80 b 3/3
JAMES READY MAGIC (KY) 1:02.60 b 1/3
SNIFTERS SPIRIT (TX) 1:03.00 hg 2/3

6th work, improved by NINE lengths over his last work!! GOOD JOB SPIRIT!!

Date: October 28, 2006
Track: REMINGTON PARK
Distance: Five Furlongs
Time: 1.01:20 Handily
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 9/35