road trip

Surprisingly, Nautical Agent did draw into that race at Colonial Downs over the weekend. She canceled plans to shampoo her hair that afternoon, made it to the paddock on time and turned in an improved effort from her last two, finishing fourth in a field of thirteen. She sat off of a pretty sharp pace and made a grinding 3/8ths run to finish up. Nautical did encounter some traffic from a number of the pace-setters backing up in her face, but the slight pause likely only caused her third place, if that. It wasn't anything brilliant, but it was good to see her enjoy some measure of success after the two flat efforts to kick off her season. We'll try to build on the effort running back at Colonial in a few weeks. Meanwhile, she'll see if she can re-book the hair appointment. I'm not getting involved in that one.