Lofty Cowtown
In the racing game, sometimes your options are limited. Lofty Cowtown has been in training steadily, with three published workouts in December and one just nine days prior to her most recent outing on January 25. No small task considering barn restrictions at Mahoning Valley and recent harsh weather influencing track- surface conditions on a daily basis.

Well, you don’t get paid for morning workouts and you can’t let ‘em kick the stall down when they are signaling they are ready. Sometimes the condition book dictates your next best opportunity to run in the afternoons and the now 5-year-old accredited stakes winning daughter of Cowtown Cat-Lofty Lizzie-Unbridled’s Song had to opt for competition against open company.
I’ve always found it best to observe a bar brawl, rather than be a participant. After breaking cleanly, jockey Joe Stokes took Lofty Cowtown off the pace, let her roll well into the turn for her seasonal debut and had a perfect view of the melee ahead. Everyone but the guy making fried bolgna sandwiches (homage to Beulah Park) seemed to want to weigh in on the outcome. According to the Daily Racing Form chart – “THE STEWARDS POSTED THE INQUIRY SIGN AND THE RIDER OF HARFUL HOPE LOGED A CLAIM OF FOUL AGAINST THE RIDER OF LADY WELLINGTON FOR INTERFERENCE IN THE STRETCH, ALSO THE TRAINER OF FLOWER MOUND LOGED A CLAIM OF FOUL AGAINST THE RIDER OF KINGDOM QUEEN FOR INTERFENRENCE IN DEEP STRETCH. AFTER REVIEW THE STEWARDS DISQUALIFIED LADY WELLINGTON AND PLACED HER FIFTH.” Got that?
HMDC’s Lofty Cowtown was no threat to the eventual Canadian-bred winner, finishing seventh in the $27,500 optional claiming sprint. Stay tuned, a accredited race for the older distaff division will show up in the condition book soon. The Mapleton-bred miss has now won $160,279 from 15 outings.