Adena Racing Venture - Harlem Rocker

Harlem Rocker is not going to the Gr I Queen's Plate. To say I'm upset about this is an understatement. I've written about this ad nauseum. I enjoy the ARV, I'm having fun, but Frank didn't do this right. These aren't his horses, they are ours, but he treated them as such. I do not have a problem with pointing to the Queen's Plate. That makes sense: He's a Canadian bred with some of the best beyers in this year's 3yo crop, Canadian or not. It's a million dollar Gr I stallion making race, I'm all for it. I'm against going against your trainer. And, that's what he did. Pletcher was a "go" on running him in the Preakness. Against one of the most dominating winner's of the Derby ever. Pletcher was for it! We didn't strike while the iron was hot. We skipped: The Preakness - Would have been second choice, and can't not believe he would have hit the board. Never thought we'd win this, but the pay check for 2nd or 3rd was pretty nice. The Met Mile - Would have been 2nd or 3rd choice, horse that won, Divine Park ran the same type of race Harlem Rocker would have run. The race that makes stallions, ugh. The Woody Stephens - Won by J be K who we beat in the Withers. We proved our horse didn't like poly in an ungraded 100k stakes race. Bad job. We could have found this out in the Bluegrass, where Samba Rooster a horse we beat finished second.