We've had one or two rainouts already. The weather has been good for our yard, but not for racing.

The weather this winter was favorable and the racing offered solid, competitive fields vying for the best purse structure on the East Coast. We hope to continue this positive momentum when racing shifts to Belmont Park next month.

I'm looking forward to racing in Nashville this weekend. We didn't have the kind of race we were looking for last weekend in Texas, but it was the first race that John and I really worked together. Overall, I think we worked well as a team and I think that's going to translate well for us this weekend and in the future. We just needed to get the kinks out of our system.

We will see seasonable weather for the next couple days. On Wednesday and Thursday it will be a bit colder. Once we get to Friday and the weekend some of the warmth from the western U.S. will come eastward and we'll see highs in the low to mid 40s in New York and Boston.

We just do that on Friday nights to get the jitters out before we go race the mod. We seem to have some time on our hands. We moved our shop out to the house this year and that has made a big difference.

We'll talk about whatever people want to talk about that day, ... Sports, politics, music, the weather.