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This year's Kentucky Derby winner, Monarchos, has
fractured his right knee and will be sidelined
indefinitely. His connections are hoping he will make a return
later this Fall, but he will miss the Jim Dandy and the
Travers Stakes. He is going to be rested for 60 days, and
then be returned to the races. No surgury will be
required.

So what I've come to believe is that Val's next
race will be the Jim Dandy at Saratoga on August 4
after getting a rest from the Triple Crown races. He
did very well in finishing second in the Preakness
and Belmont (I was there for both) behind Fatso. Damn
Fatso. Well, as for the Jim Dandy, I'll be there
(considering that my report card isn't bad, maybe even if it
is) to cheer on my boy. Good luck, Val, in a
successful second half of the year.

I MADE A FAN CLUB FOR HIM, IF YOU LIKE HIM COME JOIN IT, I NEED SOME MEMBERS....

Well we all know that Valentine ran a good race
in the Preakness and showed up for second. But
coming to his home track, Belmont, I think he can beat
his main contender Point Given. Being 2 for 2 at
Belmont and with winning the Champagne last year, A P
Valentine should be a easy winner by many lengths. Many
people think that Point Given will be the winner, like
they did in the derby, but i don't think that Point
Given is as big and bad as he sounds and when A P
Valentine kicks the crap outta him, they will soon
understand that A P Valentine is the best horse out there.
Good Luck Val in the Belmont, ill be rooting for ya!!!

Well we all know that Valentine ran a good race
in the Preakness and showed up for second. But
coming to his home track, Belmont, I think he can beat
his main contender Point Given. Being 2 for 2 at
Belmont and with winning the Champagne last year, A P
Valentine should be a easy winner by many lengths. Many
people think that Point Given will be the winner, like
they did in the derby, but i don't think that Point
Given is as big and bad as he sounds and when A P
Valentine kicks the crap outta him, they will soon
understand that A P Valentine is the best horse out there.
Good Luck Val in the Belmont, ill be rooting for ya!!!

Thoroughbred racing may not be a life-or-death
matter, but the way Zito sees it, if A P Valentine flops
in Saturday's Preakness he's aware that "I could be
hanging myself here." <br><br>A P Valentine was soundly
beaten in the Kentucky Derby, and before that was up the
track in the Blue Grass Stakes, but Zito believes a
troubled trip in which his horse was stopped repeatedly
was the reason A P Valentine finished seventh in the
Derby instead of second. Thus, despite the fact that
his 3-year-old has not finished better than fifth in
a stakes since October, Zito decided to stick his
neck out and seek redemption at Pimlico. <br><br>"I
looked at it a million times," Zito said Tuesday morning
about the Derby, where A P Valentine was beaten 13
lengths by Monarchos. "It didn't make sense to me. You
could be stopped once or twice, but to have it happen
that many times is amazing. So we'll give him another
chance and that's why we're here." <br><br>So far, he
senses that his colt is handling the softer track at
Pimlico much better than he did the super highway at
Churchill Downs on Derby Day. <br><br>A P Valentine,
co-owned by University of Louisville basketball coach Rick
Pitino and Michael Tabor, showed no ill effects from his
misadventures in Louisville by drilling five furlongs in a
quick 1:00.60 Monday at Pimlico. <br><br>"That work was
unbelievable," Zito said. "He likes it here. He likes a track
with a cushion. If the Preakness was today I'd be in
good shape. Three more days like this and we're fine."
<br><br>Zito won the Preakness in 1996 with Louis Quatorze,
who, like A P Valentine, was nowhere to be found at
the finish of the Kentucky Derby. <br><br>"Five years
ago, 'Louie' had the same type of fabulous work before
the Preakness and it was the same type of scenario,"
Zito said. "And A P Valentine's race in the Derby was
better than 'Louie's' " Zito said. <br><br>Fabulous was
not one of the words a frustrated Zito would apply to
the ride Corey Nakatani gave A P Valentine in the
Derby. Zito felt Nakatani was not mentally prepared to
ride in the Run for the Roses, prompting a search for
a new jockey. <br><br>"Corey told me he ran into a
horse, but Corey just wasn't into himself. He had some
problems obviously," Zito said. "I don't think Corey was
in the best frame of mind for the Derby."
<br><br>Zito would not comment on the identity of a possible
rider for A P Valentine, but guaranteed it would be "a
real good jockey." <br><br>Needless to say, Zito had
his fingers crossed that he would not be left
"hanging" by a jockey - or his horse.

About needing a jockey for
Valentine:<br><br>Trainer Nick Zito said he would name a rider for A P
Valentine on Tuesday. "I'll tell you this," Zito said. "The
jock I ride will be so hungry he'll eat two Big Macs."
<br><br>And a note about his workout today and the
Derby:<br><br>A P Valentine, who worked at 7 a.m. with exercise
rider Jamie Sanders aboard, looked far better on Monday
than he did during his final work before the Derby. A
P Valentine had a nightmarish trip in the Derby. He
was stopped badly at the three-furlong pole when
Keats suddenly faded, but then closed quickly in the
final furlong in a deceptively good performance.
<br><br>"The next day, when I watched the replay, I cried.
Honestly," Zito said. "I felt terrible. I think there's an
excellent chance he would have been second if he hadn't had
that problem."

Well, A P Valentine ran 7th in the Derby after
running into a bit of trouble w/Talk Is Money. He's
already at Pimlico getting ready for the Preakness, which
I'm going to! So I'll be sure to see him and get tons
of pictures. Go baby!

This is a great site about a fine contemporary
racehorse. Good luck AP-V and jockey Pat Day!<br><br>Members
are welcome to check out my own new site--a fan page
for trainer Mark Hennig and his horses. Click on URL
below and happy reading and
learning:<br><br><a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/markhennigracingwebclub
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This is a great site for a fine contemporary
racehorse. Good luck AP Valentine and jockey Pat
Day!<br><br>Members are welcome to check out and join my own new
site--a fan page dedicated to trainer Mark Hennig and his
horses. Click on URL below and happy
reading:<br><br><a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/markhennigracingwebclub
target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/markhennigracingwebclub</a>

A P Valentine won the 7th race on the Hialeah
card on March 24, an optional claimer, and set a new
track record for the mile and a sixteenth while doing
so. With an easy 3 3/4 lenght victory, Valentine
threw himself back into the Derby picture. Trainer Nick
Zito, whose day was capped off when Albert the Great
won the Widner in track record time as well the next
race, says that Val's next race will be either the
Lexington or Blue Grass in Kentucky. Way to go boy! See you
in Kentucky on the first Saturday in May!

Who cares about Valentine's Day? What good is
that for? Today is A P Val's real b-day, so he is now
really 3. Saturday he makes his season debut in a 7
furlong allowance with his new rider, Pat Day, at
Gulfstream. Good luck babe!

Nick Zito announced Sunday that Pat Day will ride
A P Valentine when the son of A. P. Indy makes his
2001 debut Feb. 17 in a 7-furlong allowance race at
Gulfstream. Jorge Chavez had been the colt's regular
rider.<br>"It has nothing to do with 'Georgie,'" Zito said.
"He'll still continue to ride Albert the Great. He rides
with a lot of fire and desire, while Pat is not as
aggressive. Pat's been around the block and has ridden a lot
of great horses. I love this horse and I want to
protect him as much as possible."<br><br>Zito was
thrilled with A P Valentine's 5-furlong work in :59
Saturday, in which the colt blew by his workmate and drew
off willingly. "That was a great work for him," Zito
said, "and it was nice because the coach (owner rick
Pitino) was there." <br><br>(by Steve Haskin, from
www.bloodhorse.com)

By Mike Welsch<br>HALLANDALE BEACH, FLA. - A P
Valentine left little doubt that he is ready to launch his
3-year-old campaign after working five furlongs in 59
seconds at Hialeah on Saturday. <br>"What I'd like to do
now is run him in some kind of allowance race,"
trainer Nick Zito said, either on next Saturday, Fountain
of Youth day "or around that time." <br><br>Working
shortly after sunrise with exercise rider Jamie Sanders
aboard, A P Valentine broke off four lengths behind
stablemate Cobra King, quickly caught Cobra King nearing the
quarter pole, then easily pulled away with Sanders barely
moving at any point during the impressive drill.
<br><br>"I'm extremely pleased," Zito said as he watched A P
Valentine cool out. "He needed that work for a lot of
reasons." <br><br>A P Valentine has not started since
finishing 14th in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, after which
it was discovered he had bucked his shins.
<br><br>One interested bystander on hand for A P Valentine's
work was owner Rick Pitino."This was spectacular,"
Pitino said. "He's really got me excited. I just saw a
glimpse of what Nick's been seeing and talking about on a
day-by-day basis all winter." <br><br>Zito has mapped out no
definite itinerary for A P Valentine other than looking
for an allowance race next weekend. "The Florida
Derby is a good possibility," Zito conceded. "But we're
here to do a job and that's get this horse to the
Kentucky Derby. And I'll do whatever I have to do to get
him there."

A P Val breezed 5 furlongs in 1:02.8 at Hialeah. He is being aimed towards the
Florida Derby with a possible allowance prep before that. Good luck and come
back big!

January 27, 5f in 1:03.0 over a fast Hialeah
track. I've come to believe that Zito tries to get him
slow at the begining and then asks him to run the last
f or two. That's just my guess though. He is still
being pointed for the Florida Derby.

Read it at www.thebloodhorse.com

Saturday's Holy Bull Stakes proved very little,
as longshot Radical Riley just got up to win a
three-horse blanket finish over Buckle Down Ben and Cee Dee
over a track labeled good. The son of Wheaton's best
races had been on wet tracks.<br>Payson Park in Florida
is the home to several top Derby hopefuls. Among the
classy colts currently working there are Iroquois winner
Meetyouathebrig for Elliott Walden and Cradle winner Mongoose for
Bill Mott. Mott, who also is high on This Fleet is
Due, is looking for a late February start for the
grand-looking Mongoose. A recent arrival at Payson Park is the
Shug McGaughey-trained Pure Prize, a green colt with a
tremendous amount of ability. If he continues to mature over
the winter, he's definitely one to watch. Look for
him at the end of the Gulfstream meet. McGaughey also
has the highly promising Saint Verre at Palm Beach
Downs. The son of Saint Ballado has the potential to be
something special. He had two ankle chips removed and has
been working at Palm Beach Downs. Bred to run all day,
he should be ready to return in about a month.
Another of McGaughey's top 2-year-olds of last year,
Easing Along, suffered a fractured cannon bone recently
and is out of the Derby picture.<br><br>In an unusual
move, the powerful stretch runner Burning Roma, winner
of the Belmont Futurity, has been sent to Tampa Bay
Downs with an assistant trainer to point for the Tampa
Bay Derby. The colt's owner is from Tampa and has
also been watching the colt for trainer Tony Dutrow,
who is stabled in Maryland.<br><br>In California, the
first big two-turn stakes was run Sunday, and while the
exciting Millennium Wind won the Santa Catalina as
expected, he had to battle hard to get the job done.
Runner-up Palmeiro, coming off a maiden score at Hollywood
Park, gave the 3-5 favorite all he could handle,
falling a half-length short. But Millennium Wind, who ran
such a huge race against Point Given in the Hollywood
Futurity, was only making his third career start, and a
tough race like this will help him down the road. Plus,
Palmeiro, by Pleasant Tap, could be a good one in his own
right. <br><br>Proud Tower, a super-fast 3-year-old,
coming off three straight stakes scores, fractured a
sesamoid while galloping Friday and will be out
indefinitely. One colt who looks like he'll relish a distance
of ground is Learing at Kathy. The son of Lear Fan,
from a powerful female family, recently won a
7-furlong allowance race impressively for Vladimir Cerin.
Trailthefox, winner of the Arlington-Washington Futurity, is
recovering from sore shins, and will not attempt to make the
Santa Anita Derby.<br><br>At Fair Grounds, the big
horse is Dollar Bill, a son of Peaks and Valleys who
defeated Holiday Thunder in the Kentucky Jockey Club
Stakes. He previously turned in a huge effort off a
maiden score to finish a fast-closing second in the
Breeders' Futurity. Trainer Dallas Stewart said he will
skip the Jan. 27 Lecomte Stakes and point for the
Risen Star, then the Louisiana Derby. One colt to watch
is Fifty Stars, trained by Steve Asmussen. The son
of Quiet American, who is coming off a stakes score
at Sam Houston, has won at Churchill Downs and has a
big closing kick. There has been little action at
Fair Grounds, especially in two-turn races. Going
short, there is Wild Hits, winner of the 6-furlong Sugar
Bowl Handicap who has won all four of his career
starts wire-to-wire. Sugar Bowl runner-up Sam Lord's
Castle is held in high regard by trainer Josie Carroll.
<br><br>Looking abroad, Eoin Harty is in Dubai, helping to
prepare the hard-knocking Street Cry for a run at the
Derby. Aidan O'Brien, who came so close to winning the
Breeders' Cup Classic with Giant's Causeway, has nominated
21 horses for the Triple Crown, including
Ballydoyle's top classic hopefuls Minardi, Hemingway, and
Galileo. Galileo currently is listed as the 12-1 second
choice for the English Derby.

AP Valentine has finally had a published workout since the Juvi. He went 3f in
0:36.2 on a fast track on January 13. I can't wait for him to come back to the
races and kick some butt!

Joined to post my pics and see they're already
here. Bah! *g* The one of the Champagne post parade is
mine as well....scanned really badly. I'm got an
awesome one of him winning the Champagne...never scanned
it though, I'll do that soon.

Hey what issue is it and what page is it on?<br>Summer

very cool! :)

Go Blood-Horse magazine! They have two articles
in there this week including AP! Yay! If anyone has
the Blood-Horse, check it out! Valy is going to be
syndicated soon, that is one article. Another is about
congragulating him on his Champagne win. Talk later
guys!<br><br>Charismatic Chick

Hey, I was there, too! I was the girl that was
talking to Nick Zito. I've got pictures of AP scanned,
but just not on my computer yet. I'm hoping to get
them later today and I'll be sure to post it up. I
also have one of Albert The Great and the winner's
circle photo.

Hey!<br><br>I am a new member and I am so happy I
joined! I got to meet AP Valentine while in New York on a
trip to Belmont with a club I am in. He is such a
sweetie! We fed him carrots and everything! I have
pictures of him but my scanner isn't working, so I can't
show them to ya'll. :-( Oh well, I am happy I joined
this club so I can talk to other people who love this
horse as much as I do!
Thanks!<br><br>CharismaticChick86

Thanks for joining, Dana! If you know anybody else who likes racing, tell them,
too!

gurl, i joined!  WOOHOO!<br><br>~Dana

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