Congrats to hometown (Saratoga) hero Dave for winning the Red Smith Handicap at Aqueduct yesterday for his second win of the year, the first coming at Belmont last month under Alan Garcia. Saturday Garcia was on Kiaran McLaughlin’s Encinas, who finished tenth. Dave was eighth with three quarters of a mile to go and made…
On Thursday, November 8th, Steve Haskin was on The Blood-Horse’s “Talking Horses” feature, and in response to a question about positive stories and movies about horse-racing said this: The documentary First Saturday in May has been shown at several film festivalsand is perhaps the best movie you’ll ever see on horse racing. (Emphasis mine) Congrats,…
As if we needed it, another sign of winter arrives this weekend, with the end of stakes grass racing in New York for 2007. Today a full field goes in the Grade II, mile and an eighth Red Smith Handicap; tomorrow the girls go in the re-scheduled Grade 3, mile and a half Long Island…
I forgot to enter Aqueduct SHOWdown last night (I know, I know—how could I write about it and then forget? But I did), and tried to do so from work today…but as it’s illegal to fund gambling in New York with credit cards, I needed my bank’s routing number…and as I didn’t have my checkbook…
Is it bad and boastful beginning blogging behavior to note that my previous post was linked on Equidaily? If so…guilty as charged. That amazing little StatCounter was telling me on Sunday morning that I was getting all kinds of traffic from Equidaily, so off I trotted…and there my words were. Very exciting for this rookie…
The good news is that when you Google “dirt vs. polytrack,” my post on this topic is the first link that comes up. The bad news is that when you Google “dirt vs. polytrack,” my post is the first link that comes up. What does it say about the information out there on this topic…
I’ve mentioned before that I buy my past performances from Brisnet.com, but I confess that I’ve never paid much attention to the rest of the site. A friend this week introduced me to the site’s Bloodstock Journal, and it’s clear that I’m soon going to have to quit my teaching job in order to find…
Thank goodness for OTB TV. Hanging out this morning drinking my coffee and writing, I turned it on and caught the replays of yesterday’s races. I was barely paying attention when I heard Tom Durkin call, startled, “Ohhh, and Numaany, Numaany just bolted to the outside! Numaany just bolted to the outside!” The horse was…
A cornucopia of interesting racing articles I encountered on Friday: Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch awards Jeannine Awards for her Breeders’ Cup coverage with the #1 spot in his media power rankings. Referring to her work as “polished” and “expert,” Deitsch compares Edwards favorably to other sideline reporters. While I think that Edwards does a good…
Sat down to write and just happened to click on the OTB channel in time to see the Grey Ghost Starter Handicap go off at the Meadowlands…taking a page from Calder’s gimmick races, the Meadowlands celebrates Hallowe’en by carding a race for grey/roan horses only, and follows that with the Witches’ Brew for filly and…
Brooklyn Backstretch 