Lady’s Secret in the Ruffian

Weather permitting, the Ruffian will be run at Belmont this afternoon. With fresh flowers on Ruffian’s grave in the infield, nine fillies will go to the post to contest the mile and a sixteenth race on the dirt. The race used to be the second in the Belmont fall filly series, the first the Maskette…

Back to Belmont

And so our eyes swing eastward, out to Elmont and Big Sandy, as the Belmont Fall Championship Meet opens. They’ll be racing at Belmont beginning today and ending on October 26th, and in between, we’ll see thirty-six stakes races, twenty-three of them graded. Unfortunately, opening weekend of the Belmont meet is not supposed to be…

The Saratoga Wrap Up

This may be the longest good-bye in the history of Saratoga. I know, I know, it ended three days ago, and I’ve already posted twice about it, but there are so many notes and overheards and photos and images that I kept meaning to write about and didn’t quite get to…so I swear, this is…

Week 6: Sights, sounds, musings

What a good idea to have the Spinaway and the Hopeful on closing weekend; as we resist acknowledging that our days at the Spa are coming to end, we are given something to look forward to, the promise of two-year-olds of whom we hope we will see much more in the coming months. In week…