Your Horse Drew In and You Don't Have Silks — What Now?

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You have two real options. Run in the track's house silks, which every racetrack keeps in the jocks' room for exactly this, or call us and we can turn a custom set around in 24 hours. Your horse runs either way. The only question is whether it runs in your colors.

Option 1: House silks

Every track keeps spare colors — usually plain sets in the track's own colors — in the jocks' room. Your trainer or the clerk of scales handles it, there's nothing to arrange, and nobody scratches for lack of silks.

Option 2: Call us — 24-hour turnaround

Most silks makers run two to four weeks, and longer in the weeks before a big meet opens when everyone is ordering at once. That timeline is why owners assume a rush order isn't on the table.

We sew in-house and don't batch orders into production runs, so we can build a custom set in 24 hours. If entries came out Monday and your horse runs Thursday, that's comfortable. Wednesday is doable. Even a next-day runner is worth a phone call before you assume it can't happen.

What makes it work on our end:

  • Say the race date in your first sentence. Not "how fast can you make silks" — "my horse runs Saturday at Belmont." We'll give you a yes or no on that date, not a general lead time.
  • Have your design and registration information ready. This is the one thing that can't be rushed — see below.
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