How can you not get a kick out of the Lisa’s Booby Trap story?<\/p>\n
Who?<\/p>\n
Lisa’s Booby Trap.<\/p>\n
You know who she is.\u00a0 She’s the horse that got its name for her owner\/trainer’s now deceased wife and a popular trackside “gentleman’s club” in Florida.<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
I know.<\/p>\n
Me too.<\/p>\n
It’s the stuff Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote of.\u00a0 So rich with romance how can one not well up with tears.<\/p>\n
OK.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 Most of racing’s greatest thoroughbreds and classic winners are generally named something a little more regal and a little less hooter.\u00a0 But in this case, for this story, it makes it a little funnier story and certainly worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n
She’s a gangly filly.\u00a0 The NY Post’s Ed Fountain said “she’s as big as a bull moose and kindly as a cow.”<\/p>\n
Oh, and she’s blind in one eye.<\/p>\n
Did I mention the club foot yet?<\/p>\n
I grant you these are not the ideal specs for a winning race horse … or a “gentleman’s club” employee for that matter.\u00a0 But come on – racehorse or stripper – how can you not be intrigued?\u00a0 How can you not root for them?<\/p>\n
Lisa’s Booby Trap’s owner and trainer is Tim Snyder.\u00a0 A fella from way upstate New York in Finger Lakes who lost his wife back in 2003 to ovarian cancer.\u00a0 She beat it once, but it came back and all her fight wasn’t enough.\u00a0 She passed a week short of her 38th birthday.<\/p>\n
He bought the filly for $4,500; but was short $2,500 and made a promise to pay the balance upon her winning.\u00a0 Fate was on Snyder’s side and she won her first three starts by a combined margin of just under 37 lengths.<\/p>\n
Snyder took a chance and shipped his filly and dreams of success to The Spa.\u00a0 He entered her in the $70,000 Loudonville Stakes on August 6 and Kent Desormeaux got the call to ride<\/a>.<\/p>\n
And get this…he turned down a half a million dollar offer on the horse.<\/p>\n
Now that’s somethin’ for a $4,500 Finger Lakes purchase.<\/p>\n
I can’t say I would have turned it down.\u00a0 Not $500 grand.<\/p>\n
The NYRA news release offered this quote from Snyder:<\/p>\n
This is one upset story that doesn’t need to be written.<\/p>\n
This is one story for the good guys that needs to continue.<\/p>\n
Give ’em hell, Lisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"