Touching base with Roy Jackson this afternoon, he said things are going well for Barbaro's full siblings - Lentenor, Nicanor, and the colt foaled this year, as well as with dam La Ville Rouge.
"Everything is going along pretty well," the owner said.
Although he did not have specifics, Jackson said Lentenor will start at some point in the fall, as he is now working steadily for Michael Matz. Likewise, Matz has not decided exactly when Nicanor, who was scratched out of the Virginia Derby, would make his return to competition, but it would also be in the fall. "We just had to give him some time (off)," Jackson said.
Of the 2009 colt, "he was full of it" the last time I saw him, said Jackson, who along with his wife Gretchen, operate Lael Stables.
Jackson said no decision has been made on the name of the 2009 foal and that he would be named when all the other Lael Stable horses are named. "We have until the first of the year. It takes a little while."
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