Pre-entries are lining up for the first card of the new season. Mayhaps a bit ambitious, but we have 4 runners vanning out. 3 boys and a girl, 2 established CF runners and 2 new, 3 dirts and a turf, 2 sprints and 2 longer runs - sounds a lot worse than it is.

First start of 2013 goes to Enigma in the Grade 2 Sian's Gold Sprint running New Year's Day at Santa Rosa Park. 4th pre-entry over 6 furlong weeds, he's training well and should be up to the challenge.

Second up is new race-mare Millenium Tower on January 3. We are fervently hoping third time's the charm as Millie follows Revotic and Our Maiden into the Truly Bound Handicap. Not too sure she'll like the larger field, but she's been asking to lengthen and we feel she deserves the chance (Miler tendancies not withstanding).

January 12 sees the return of Copacabana to Shenandoah Downs. An ungraded dirt route should be a nice warm up for (what we hope will be) his season to shine. Cop's 2 highest PSR's were in sprints, but he's really wanting to go long. One last shot before we dedicate him.

Hopefully we can pull a repeat of Our Maiden when Seattleswale hits the track after a very long layoff - and please let it happen a bit sooner this time. "Chief" has had 2 years to romp and play and is chomping at his bit to get back to work. This handsome gent is now the ripe old age of 7 and (along with a check or two) we're hoping for an "older runner" award from him...along with the hopes that he still has something left, of course. With 4 wins and nearly a half-million in winnings Chief has nothing left to prove; the game now is in not ruining him. Chief is pre-entered to the Jan 12 Pelican Stakes and will ship the 2 hours to Tampa from our winter quarters.

First card rolls this weekend. Good luck everyone, but not too good.