Castle Village Farm’s seven-year-old warrior, Bagavond, had hist first breeze of the year this morning, working a relaxed half-mile in 49.66 seconds on the Belmont training track. Bagavond, who’s won for us in each of the past four years, had the winter off, down at Diana McClure’s Carousel Farm in Virginia. We’ll be pointing him toward a turf sprint at Belmont sometime in the second half of May.

Our newest horse, the five-year-old gelding Good Law, was entered for a starter allowance on Saturday, May 1 at Belmont, but the race wasn’t used. A similar race is back up as an extra for Sunday, May 2.

We claimed Good Law on April 7th, and had entered him earlier for this past Sunday, April 25, at Aqueduct, but that race wasn’t used either. Will be nice to see him in our silks.

Castle Village Farm’s new 2010 Claiming Partnership got underway on Wednesday, April 7th, when we claimed the five-year-old New York-bred gelding Good Law out of the 8th race at Aqueduct for $25,000.  Good Law will be trained for CVF by Bruce Brown. He’s a big, well-muscled bay, who comes to us with a lifetime record of 27-8-2-4 and earnings of $146,696. There’s still room in our claiming partnership for new partners who’d like to join us and enjoy being part of Good Law’s racing career.

Castle Village Farm’s 4-year-old colt Strings and Arrows tries the turf for the first time on Saturday, April 3rd, at Aqueduct, in the 11th race (post time 6:17 pm). It’s a NY-bred maiden special weight at 1 1/16th miles, with a full field of 12 entered. Victor Santiago will ride for CVF trainer Leah Gyarmati.

Strings and Arrows will be wheeling back on two weeks’ rest from his good 3rd-place finish on the dirty on March 21st. With Northern Dancer and His Majesty in his pedigree, and several siblings who ran very well on grass, we’re hoping to see a strong race in his first turf try.