We are happy to report that Polly is now enjoyng turnout and down time on a farm approximately 15 minutes away from the Finger Lakes Race Track. This farm downtime will ideally set her up for transitioning to retraining for a new career. When she was still at the track we visited this very pretty baby with the lovely deep rich copper coat shortly after her morning training gallop. We found her to be super cute and were quite surprised to discover that she was only two years old- she’s very solid and with nicely balanced proportions and a lovely, long neck. She’s not yet fully registered with the Jockey CLub — equineline states that her registration is pending under the name Notapoliticalparty. Polly was a tiny as a yearling so her connections gave her additional time, holding off race training until she had a little time to grow into herself. They feel that she is also currently having a growth spurt and expect her to finish around 15.3-16.0h. She walked out and stood quietly; she even did a “down dog” yoga pose to stretch. When we chuckled at that, we were told that she regularly does yoga-like stretches in her stall in addition to making lots of funny faces. She was described to us a tad opinionated (who doesn’t appreciate a girl who knows exactly what she wants?) but also super bubbly and happy, and a complete ham. Although she’s still very green- a baby racehorse, she’s said to be very good to ride, fun and forward, a quick learner who will already jog on the buckle and round up. Since coming to the track, she has started to crib, her connections suspect that this will diminish if she has ample turnout. When she was at the farm, she was very good during turnout in a mixed herd of mares and geldings. During her jog video, we observed very pretty, fluid movement. This lovely girl is a stablemate of Billieve in Josh. Her owner / trainer is transitioning out of racing and although this filly would probably perform well as a racehorse, she told us that she has declined race home offers for her as she prefers a non-racing home for this special homebred. As an added bonus: she is happy to supply plenty of baby pictures of this lovely filly to her new person. Because this filly is so young and has more limited life- experiences, her connections feel that she may require a more experienced / advanced owner who can bring along very young horses. Polly is by Jack Milton, who is a son of War Front. Her dam is Time for A Party by Desert Party. Desert Party lines are terrific for jumping. She’s a blank slate that you can easily turn out for a bit to finish growing but that already has some very basic training to make it easy for when you are ready to start her again.
