Lexington, KY. Here’s your 2008 Lane’s End winner, passing the clubhouse following the break. As I get ready to leave Lexington later today, I offer a quick recap of Saturday’s Turfway races…with apologies to anyone who reports regularly on this beat, for my poaching on my one-day visit. Race 2: I got there just before…
Great news from the Hennegan Brothers: The First Saturday in May, their film about the road to the 2006 Kentucky Derby, is going to be released in theaters for a limited run on April 18th. If it’s playing in a city near you…GO! It will be shown in eighteen major markets. Nice coverage of this…
Dateline: Lexington, KY As Railbird noted yesterday, this week’s Blood-Horse reports on the proceedings of the second Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, held in Lexington earlier this week. The summit was coordinated and underwritten by the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and the Jockey Club, and hosted by the Keeneland Association. There were a…
Dateline: Asheville, NC Arrived here yesterday to pick up my friend Wade, and within literally minutes of pulling into town was drinking pink champagne at a cool little wine bar nestled into the Grove Arcade, a beautiful old building that is one of the highlights of the downtown Asheville landscape. Vacation is good. The serious…
If Greg Avioli, president and CEO of Breeders’ Cup, pays any attention to the Thoroughbred Bloggers’ Alliance, he must feel mighty chuffed at how his little plan is working out. Here we are in mid-March, fresh off a weekend of Derby preps with some big-name colts running, and while we’re certainly talking about those races,…
I don’t know why I even look forward to posting the weekly Take 10! standings; it’s an exercise in repeated humility, and at this point, I just may be humble enough, at least as far as this game goes. 26. Trip’s Triple Crown Stable…………..1,820,00030. Stafford Stables……………………….1,571,75048. Sleipneir Stables……………………..1,562,75097. Quinella Castle…………………………..1,253,750111. SecBar Stable……………………………..1,170,750114. Superterrific Stables……………………1,142,000137. Val’s…
Well, Wednesday might not have been such a great day for Eliot Spitzer personally and professionally, but if he had taken my betting advice, he’d have had a decent return on his investment—much better to invest in the horses than in, ah, other forms of entertainment. Of the nine horses listed on yesterday’s post, six…
I’ve already received at least three condolence messages following Saratoga Russell’s performance in the Gotham, and I can’t say that it wasn’t awful to be there, to watch him in the paddock (though I didn’t think he looked great, and his intestines didn’t seem to be exactly calm, if you know what I mean), to…
Bill Place didn’t make my wish come true on Thursday; off as the even-money favorite, he was a well-beaten third and was claimed from Anthony Dutrow by David Jacobson. I suppose that’s a good sign? On the other side of the world, Numaany too finished third, at Nad al Sheba. Beaten a length and a…
When it comes to hobbies, the New York Rangers and horse racing compete for my attention. Most of the time, they don’t come into serious conflict, but maybe one of these days the Rangers will still be playing deep enough into the post-season so that I can dash from the Belmont Stakes to Madison Square…
Brooklyn Backstretch 