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Summer Bird Silks

Summer Bird

4 year old Colt | Active
Owner(s):
K. K. Jayaraman  - 
Trainer:
Tim F. Ritchey
Bred:
Kentucky (USA) by K. K. Jayaraman  -  [Add Data]
Pedigree:
Birdstone  -  Hong Kong Squall  by  Summer Squall
Rating:
 
 
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What the Horse Racing Nation is talking about...

Summer Bird, the champion 3-year-old of 2009, has resumed training and jogged Wednesday and Thursday at Oaklawn Park, said his co-owner, K.K. Jayaraman. Summer Bird has been rehabbing from a nondisplaced condylar fracture to his right foreleg, and recently received medical clearance to return to the...Read More
Summer Bird suffered an injury during his sojourn to the Far East, where he was going to race in the Japan Cup Dirt at Hanshin Race Course. The injury was to his right foreleg and a screw was inserted into the affected area to help with the healing process. Apparently, everything is on schedule for ...Read More
Curious trainer change for Summer Bird...
It seems like yesterday when Tim Ice and the Jayaramans were standing in the basement of Belmont Park at their winning press conference where Dr. KKJ was lavishing praise on his trainer. But in the theme of "what have you done for me lately" the Jayaramans relieved Ice of his training duties of 25 h...Read More
Trainer Tim Ice has been informed that he is being relieved of his duties as the trainer of champion Summer Bird as well as 24 other horses owned by K.K. and Vilasini Jayaraman. Ice, who is based at Oaklawn, said the loss of the horses will reduce his stable from 31 head to six. "It puts me almost o...Read More
  • ruby · OUCH! That's tough. Win the Belmont, get a pink slip. Things must have gone wrong in a hurry. · 32 days ago
  • mdracing69 · On top one moment...struggling to stay in the game the next! · 32 days ago
One morning the week of the Kentucky Derby, trainer Tim Ice was asked if he thought the race might be a little ambitious for Summer Bird, who at that point had raced just three times. His career had begun just two months earlier at Oaklawn Park, with a fourth-place finish in a maiden race. Summer Bi...Read More
Just down the road from the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel, site of tonight’s Eclipse Awards dinner, is beautiful downtown Burbank and the world-famous studio where the “Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” was produced for many wonderful years after Carson and his entourage moved West from New...Read More
Rachel Alexandra’s extraordinary victory in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course has been voted by fans as NYRA’s 2009 “Story of the Year.” The victory eclipsed four other compelling tales from New York racing, including jockey Ramon Dominguez’s superlative year and Linda Rice’s hist...Read More
It’s been a month since Belmont/Travers/Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Summer Bird underwent surgery for a nondisplaced fracture of his left fore cannon bone. It will be a whole lot longer until we might get the chance to see him run again.  Read More
  • horses · It's too bad that Summer Bird won't be back until the summer. But it's good news that he's doing well. Interesting that Tim Ice has a half-brother to Summer Bird named Indy Squall in training at the FG. · 67 days ago
“With the close of each racing year comes the interesting problem of the best horse…In past years this was much easier than it is in the present. Today commercialism cuts an important figure, crowding old-fashioned ‘sportsmanship’ to the wall. Horses are no longer raced purely as ‘sport’ much as we ...Read More
Since it's December 23rd, what could be a better way to celebrate this year's racing calendar, but with a touch of Festivus. As you know, Festivus comes but once a year and features such things as "Feats of Strength" and the "Airing of Grievances."Read More
The third leg of racing’s Triple Crown has been the undoing of many champions aspiring for all-time greatness.  It is the site of many historical performances and it’s place in racing’s landscape as big and broad as the racetrack over which it’s contested.  Read More
The somewhat universal belief, as the calendar turned to October, was that Summer Bird and Quality Road as 3YOs were better than their elders, specifically Stephen Foster winner Macho Again.  The three of them were to meet and settle it on the track and the spot was the Jockey Club Gold Cup, th...Read More
THE INTRIGUE - The 140th running of the Travers didn’t feature Rachel Alexandra, who most believed at the time was the best 3YO of either sex, but the winners of the Belmont, Florida Derby, Lane’s End, Jim Dandy, Dwyer, Peter Pan, and Barbaro made up the field of seven.Read More
  • cigar · Summer Bird won the Travers but was lengths behind Rachel Alexandra in the Haskell. · 87 days ago
Beginning Dec. 11 and through Jan. 15, 2010, fans can choose from among five compelling storylines some human, some equine and cast their ballots for NYRA "Story of the Year."Read More
SUMMER BIRD (Birdstone), whose sophomore campaign was cut short by injury in Japan, arrived at Oaklawn Park this week and will begin the process of recuperation from surgery under the watchful eye of trainer Tim Ice over the next few months. Read More
Summer Bird, winner of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I), Travers (gr. I), and Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I), underwent successful surgery to repair a nondisplaced fracture of his left fore cannon bone Dec. 5 and is expected to return to racing next year.Read More
I hope he comes out of surgery ok... would be great to see him duking it out in the handicap division in 2010 and not in the breeding shed.
I’ve been coming to the Japan Cup every year but one since 1993 and have yet to see an American-trained horse win. The first couple of years were promising: Kotashaan finished second, a length and a quarter behind Legacy World in 1993, and Paradise Creek was nosed ...Read More
Trainer Tim Ice said he hopes to ship Summer Bird back to the United States Wednesday on a flight that would also include Marsh Side, one of the American starters in Sunday’s Japan Cup. Summer Bird came out of a Sunday morning workout at Hanshin racecourse in Osaka, ...Read More

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View DetailsView Video11/07/094thSAK Desormeaux91 1/4 mSBreeders' Cup Classic-G103+ MZenyattaGio PontiTwice Over2:00.62
View DetailsView Video10/03/091stBelK Desormeaux101 1/4 mDJockey Club Gold Cup-G103+ MSummer BirdQuality RoadTizway2:02.51
View DetailsView Video08/29/091stSarK Desormeaux111 1/4 mDTravers-G103 MSummer BirdHold Me BackQuality Road2:02.83
View DetailsView Video08/02/092ndMthK Desormeaux131 1/8 mDHaskell-G103 MRachel AlexandraSummer BirdMunnings1:47.10
View DetailsView Video06/06/091stBelK Desormeaux111 1/2mDBelmont Stakes-G103 MSummer BirdDunkirkMine That Bird2:27.54
View DetailsView Video05/02/096thCDC Rosier111 1/4 mDKentucky Derby-G103 MMine That BirdPioneerof The NileMusket Man2:02.66
View DetailsView Video04/11/093rdOPC Rosier111 1/8 mDArkansas Derby-G203 MPapa ClemOld FashionedSummer Bird1:49.01

 

 

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