Live blogging morning works from GP

Made it out to GP before sunrise, fully expecting to see Zito and Pletcher sending out their charges under cover of darkness, trying to sneak a sharp tightener in before the Florida Derby.

Apparently, they don't have a sleeper for the Derby or they are just smart enough not to wake up at oh dark thirty. I arrived before they harrowed the track. We'll see what happens.

The sun is beginning to peek through. Clear and a million.

I took an air traffic controller course in college, at least my transcript shows I did, tracking works and times is something akin to that. I am sitting close to the clockers and can hear the gate and whoever is announcing the workouts from the backstretch, calling out horse names and trainer as well as the work distance. Juggling the camera, laptop, blackberry(stopwatch) and the binocs is taxing my morning synapse relay.

I would post horses and their times but my reports would look a lot like...chestnut, running, spotted at the 1/16_th , timed the gallop out in :15.

As fun as this is, I am missing the whole morning, trying to be here. For you.

Mary Forney has a much better thing going. So does pretty much anyone else at the TBA.

I will sign off now, with the words of Todd Schrupp...'may all your workouts be bullets.'