What dreams may come...

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures Kings."
-William Shakespeare, "King Richard III" Act V scene II

There is a sublime moment, before the tidal bedlam of enterprise washes over you, infinitesimal in span but timeless in scope, when chance and providence filter through the prism of possibilities and refract into the myriad hopes and fears of ones secret heart. A moment, devoid of rationality but suffused with sober thought, where the parturient permutations of delusion play out their string.

Imalexus returns to training on December 1_st, pending the final tests for EHV-1 at Laurel. Latest update shows all clear.

'Lex, does not sport the fanciest pedigree. Her sire, Alex's Pal, proved a productive runner, winning 6 of 19 starts and earning over $160k. Her dam, Dayjurs Deelites was unraced but is out of Afternoon Deelites by a Dayjur mare, also unraced.

Afternoon Deelites, a precocious juvenile, won the Hollywood Futurity GI, the Malibu GI and ran second in the 1996 Met Mile to Honour and Glory, when he set the race record.

Her second dam, Dayjurs M D, is out of Dayjur, who was a sidereal umbra away from taking the 1990 Breeders' Cup Sprint.

She is 5x5 to Mr. Prospector, Northern Dancer and Shenanigans. Her broodmare sire's paternal granddam (there has to be an easier way to term that), shares the same line as Ruffian, except Bold Ruler is the sire instead of his son, Reviewer.

Her breeding indicates she would be do well between 6 furlongs and a mile and while she does have plenty of sprint pedigree, Afternoon Deelites has thrown horses that can cover a route of ground.

Every possibility of greatness is focused on 'Lex. She is all I have so all I know. She carries the nobility of her past with her, as all thoroughbreds do, and she is my manifestation of that ideal. Whether she runs up the track, into the winner's circle or somewhere in between, she carries the hope of my heart.

Godspeed Imalexus. Come home safe.