08/20/06 Zarifah remains healthy and ready for her next race as her turf at Retama Park on 8/17/06 was not to her liking. Bobby Walker Jr. was impressed with this horse and will work with us to get her back to Retama on the dirt at the very earliest we can.

08/06/06 Currently planning on running Zarifah at Retama Park shortly. The lack of Maiden filly races at Evangeline have caused us to look at Texas for her next race. Toboggan Run, Zarifahs' full brother should be ready for prime time shortly. Our plans are for a couple of races for her before the Keeneland meet, which we think we'd like to participate in. 

07/07/06 Zarifah put in a 4th place finish today at Louisana Downs, her 2nd ITM finish in 3 career starts. From our trainer accounts, she appeared to have clipped her left front shoe early on, slipped back to last recovering from this, then with bent shoe underneat her foot, regained footing to finish 4th. She appeared cool, fit and collected in this effort with what should surely be better news in the months ahead. 

07/04/06 Zarifah put in a decent but not spectacular effort on July 15th at Evangeline Downs and will be running on 07/07/06 at Louisiana Downs 3rd race, 4th post with jockey Anthony Lavato in the irons. This race should be a better effort as she appears to favor distance. 5 furlong races that she has run apparently is a little short on dirt for her. We'd like to thank our owners for their patience with getting her to this point and hope that it was well worth the wait on getting her to the races!

06/12/06 Great News! Zarifah is set to for a maiden special weight event at Evangeline Downs, 2nd race, 06/15/06, 7:05 CST start with jockey Billy Patin in the irons. We are excited that this filly who had shown so much promise in her first outing last year, is able to come back from what could have been a career ending injury and run this thursday!

4/06/06 Zarifah is coming along nicely on the comeback trail recovering nicely from the chips in knees injury sustained from her first outing at Churchill Downs on July 2nd of last year. She is swimming, jogging and galloping as if she never had an injury - which of coure is excellent! Toboggan Run is now a little over 2 months in training so he's about 2 months or more away from his first start. Some horse racing partnerships shares remain in both horses so contact us if you wish to be an owner!

12/27/05. A change of trainers occurred on the morning of December 20th.  

10/26/05  Zarifah is back in training after a layoff that should bring her back to top form. She was returned to our trainer Maria E. Pinzon on October 20th and we are looking forward to more spectacular racing action from her. Our latest offering Toboggan Run should be ready to hit the ground running and welcome inquiries on this spectacular Breeders Cup nominated colt.

07/02/05 Zarifahs' debut has arrived! In a 5 furlong $30,000 maiden race at Churchill Downs, Zarifah was by far the most impressive of all the horses rocketing from a last place deficit at the 3/16 pole to place 4th in her first outing. If you get the chance to see a replay of this race you might  have squinted and thought that you have seen Giacomo, but no, it was Zarifah! The replay of this race at Churchill Downs highlighted her tremendous effort on the Mitsubishi Diamond screen at Churchill Downs on this picture perfect day in July. 

6/15/05 Zarifah is coming into her final days of training before her Churchill Downs debut. As you can see on her page link, she is looking fit and trim. She will be getting her gate card this weekend. We are looking forward to a great race! Its not too late to secure shares in this filly so please inquire soon. Once she gets racing, you may not have a chance to own a piece of this great race filly.

5/22/05 Zarifah now 120 days into training at the Thoroughbred Center in Lexington Kentucky is showing great promise as she alway has. This filly loves to work and was clocked at :37.2 for 3/8 mile on a "Dead" track surface on 5/20/05 - a verifiable time - check Equibase or Brisnet for this and is performing exactly as expected after a short layoff. We are looking to race in the next 3-4 weeks at Churchill Downs and will keep our base of followers and owners informed as to the exact date and time. We appreciate all those individuals that have worked so hard to get us where we are at with her currently and are encouraged by the interest level that potential new partners have expressed in her recently. 

3/10/05 Zarifah now 53 days into training - the first week doesn't count (getting acclimated to training environment) is doing everything and more that is expected of her. Juan Chavarria - her conditioner said that he "is impressed and it takes a lot to impress me" were his exact words when commenting on her work ethic and what she is willing to put forth without asking.

01/04/05 Zarifah has returned from her most recent schooling (breaking under bit and saddle) and will be under saddle on a regular basis starting the 10th of January. She will be initially based at the Thoroughbred Center on Paris Pike Lexington Kentucky. Please let us know if you wish to inspect her.

She is under the tutelage of Juan Chavarria, a Lexington, Kentucky-based conditioner who has had pretty good success with our Trainer - Maria E. Pinzon who has a 60% in the money track record with the local Kentucky tracks and Mountaineer Park in West Virginia. We firmly believe Juan is the right person to get her acclimated to her racing career.

Upon completion of her initial training and her syndication, there will be a number of trainers under consideration for her, one being Christophe Clemente who's bio is described on our site, Kieran McLaughlin who had trained our filly's sire Sahm, John Kimmel out of New York is also being considered as well as Bill Mott.