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Veiled Reference had her final work in preparation for her second start over the weekend. She worked 5/8ths over the Tapeta surface in 1.02, a solid enough time. Looks like she's coming into the race in good shape; just have to keep fingers crossed for a nice, outside draw. Race is in the book for Friday.

Mass Romantic might have a go herself on Thursday at Penn National. We'll know more later today. It would be helpful for the race to go as she's overdue to run.

Nautical Agent is training away down in Colts Neck. We've decided to wait for the spot on the 25th at Philadelphia Park. It's a slightly longer break for her than we had planned, but it's the right race for her and so we'll just cool our jets. She shipped down well and is doing fine.

Interesting piece in the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred on PA-breds scoring across the Atlantic. Some of these old-school outfits in the Keystone state breed really awesome horses. Mostly turf, but they do throw in the occasional horse like Hard Spun (though he's really turf, too). I'll just need the few decades to play catch-up.