thermonuclear energy

“The 2019 racing season at Los Alamitos concluded on Dec. 15 with a few new leaders. Chris O’Dell, who had Grade 1 winners Powerful Favorite, Thermonuclear Energy, Runforyourlife and more, won his first ever quarter-horse training title with 70 wins, while ending Paul Jones’ streak of eight straight.

I suggest keying Fenian Faith in exotics with #1 Conquering Marie, #8 Thermonuclear Energy and #9 Matilda Czech.

The field will be headed by Thermonuclear Energy, who will go after her third major stakes win of the season in the Millie Vessels at 400 yards.

“A winner of seven career stakes wins, Thermonuclear Energy has earned $405,757 while winning 11 of 28 lifetime starts. She’ll be going after her seventh career stakes win on Sunday night.”

The basic theme: a star performs a continual balancing act between its own immense gravity, which tries to pull all of its matter in toward the center, and the intense thermonuclear energy radiating from its core, which pushes the matter outward, keeping the star in the form of a distended ball of hot gases.