For any of you who would care to read below this is our journey with Tom and Lisa. For anyone who doesn't want to read this much, why are you on a message board
May 12th 2006
We claimed a horse named Sea Chest. It was the first horse my partners Dan, Rick, and I had ever owned. I was 20 years old and they trusted me with 3 grand each, which I then sent to Tom. I had never met Tom or Lisa in person. I had honestly never heard of him or Calder other than seeing it on early in the day at our local otb. There was something about him that gave me two feelings...
Trustworthy and Worthy of a chance. I felt like he only needed a few star horses to put his stable on the map ( which at the time I thought that would be an easy task
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Jan 12th 2007
Silversandsoftime ( R.I.P big guy ) won our first race as owners. Tom and I agreed we needed to get him back on the turf. He wasn't given much of a chance that day and went off at 46-1. Dan and I were at our local otb in Richmond, VA. The place was packed, and when silver ran to the lead 5 wide all you could hear is us yelling, and all you could see is me leap into Dan's arms ( I was about 225 at the time and he lifted me like I was a cardboard box
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We cashed some serious wagers that day. $3 trifecta, $1 trifecta, Win wagers everywhere. We walked out with about 10k in our pockets that day. The best part about it all was Dan ran back to the window as they were loading in the gate and bet a $5 win ticket for the teller. When he finished first and we cashed our tickets she was crying her eyes out she was so happy for us, and the fact that she just won almost as much as she would make that week working part time. We then sold silver after a little bit of negotiating. Silver ended up losing an eye after an incident leaving the starting gate. He was given some time off, and the owner decided to sell him cheap after his first start back. Tom called Dan and I and pleaded with us we had to buy him back. We did and he won 2 more races for us.
11-29-2007
We claimed Judge's Case. Tom talked us into claiming him as a 10 year old at calder for 5k. After the race the trainer told us he never thought anyone would claim Judge, and that he had only ran him to become eligible to claim. We decided to run Judge for 16k his next start, where he closed on the outside and won by a neck. Later that winter he was claimed away at tampa.Dan and I did the only thing we could possibly do claim him back. We wanted to be the people who retired the old warrior. Judge is lucky enough to be living at the greatest thoroughbred retirement farm Old Friends in Kentucky. We go visit him every Keeneland meet.
2008. The economy crashes. All of our disposable income is basically non existent but we hang in there with a horse or two with Tom for a couple of years.
11-29-2011 ( I never realized until writing this exactly 4 years after after we claimed Judge )
I wanted to get back into the game, I pmed PICSIX because I had seen him post in a thread that he was interested in partnering in a few horses.
We have been through some horses in the last few years. We have had a blast doing it, and have built a bond and a great friendship.
Feb 10th 2012
Bossman Blue's was our first winner together first start off the claim. He was claimed away that day.
Today
We purchased Spectacular Me privately last year and since then we've had some ups and downs with her ( She enjoys running first or last !! Also some of you might remember how devastated we were when she was Disqualified at calder a few months ago )
Mike and I originally liked her for a turf horse, but for many months Calder would not run turf sprints. We finally got her on the turf at gulfstream last month where she ran second in what seemed to be a very classy race.
Today she won at gulfstreams co-feature allowance race and gave us our biggest purse win that I can remember.
None of this would have been possible without this website. Pace advantage introduced us many years ago, and without it this wouldn't be possible.
Finally I want to thank Tom and Lisa for giving me many thrills over the years. Even when times are tough, I can always look forward to one of our horses running, and after all these years, I feel like Tom Schell is on the map.
Jason
...ps...that's pace and I; not you...or maybe we did...still all in all...it's good 90% of the time...and that's HIGH marks...believe me...being in retail...you'd love to have 100%....ain't happening...... 
