Evening Attire, the Stymie, and the Meadowlands

A year ago on this day, I was getting ready to head to the Meadowlands; my sister-in-law was planning a surprise 40th birthday for my brother, and I was meeting some of his friends there in the afternoon for some simulcasting before the big event. Evening Attire was in action that day, in his second…

Happy Columbus Day

Or as the former (California) school of a current colleague says, Happy Indigenous People’s Day. A collection of random thoughts on the weekend’s racing: After multiple attempts, I was finally able to catch Spooky Mulder’s race on Calracing; it was a four-horse field, but a typical Spooky race: he hung about four lengths off the…