We began following Pete and David back in June when Trainer Bruce Levine claimed him for $20,000 out of this race in which Pete and David went to post at Final Odds of 13.70 and finished seventh. On Saturday, September 29, Levine took Pete and David down the Jersey Turnpike to Philadelphia, where he said goodbye to the three year old gelding.
Pete and David (Final Odds 2.30) broke third in the field of eight, took the lead near the sixteenth pole, and was never headed from there, crossing the wire a length in front of the rest of the field. For his winning effort Pete and David earned $13,800 in purse money. Pete and David also gets a change of scenery, as he was claimed by Trainer J Guadalupe Guerrero for $15,000.
So the tale of Pete and David under the tutelage of conditioner Bruce Levine comes to an end. Pete and David earned $15,110 in purse money in the three races that he ran for Trainer Levine. When that amount is added to the $15,000 sales price collected at the end of Saturday's contest, the total return is $30,110; $10,110 more than the $20k for which he had been claimed. I won't call that figure profit; since, of course, Pete and David had to be housed and fed and medicated and all the other costs that go into caring for a thoroughbred race horse; but the earnings are more than the outlay, which isn't bad for a horse that ran well out of the money at long odds in the race out of which he was claimed.
Peace and Love,
Jimbo
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