(2-Year-Old Colt)
Comments: Uncle Mo x Song of the Lark
Date: August 24, 2023
Track: CHURCHILL DOWNS
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 53:60 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 29/30
Our Commentary:
Fireball Birdie ran his first official work this morning at Churchill Downs. (8/17/23 photo below as he was being shipped to Steve Asmussen's barn.)
It was a slow work, which is not surprising, but the distance was 4 furlongs--not 2 or 3. He ran it in 53.60.
Fireball Birdie is a son of top sire Uncle Mo out of Song of the Lark by Seeking The Gold. His dam has produced two stakes winners, including a Canadian Horse of the Year, Up With The Birds. We expect at least six more works before he'll be ready to start, which would put his earliest start date sometime after the beginning of October, if all goes well.
Our barn name for him is "Firebird."
Official Update:
Fireball Birdie had his first official breeze this morning at Churchill Downs, covering a half-mile in :53.60. Working in company on the outside of a $550,000 son of Gun Runner, Holster, who also just shipped in from Laredo, Texas with our colt.
This was a typical first work in the Asmussen barn, having the riders up in the saddle throughout the early stages and only asking our son of Uncle Mo in the final sixteenth to the wire and on the gallop out.
The work times will never be flashy with new 2-year-olds in the Asmussen barn, but following a couple of easy breezes Steve will begin to ask him for a bit more.
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