Our anonymous Saratoga Russell commenter makes another appearance, this time outing him/herself (at least a little) as a part owner. Mr./Ms. West Point, thanks for your updates, and keep ‘em coming. Sunday’s comment: “Saratoga Russell is training at Gulfstream. He ran a bullet 5 furlong yesterday. People who witnessed the breeze said that on paper,…
Several members of the racing press have alluded this week to an interview of Charles Hayward that was broadcast over the NYRA cctv system at the track this week. As I tuned in to my TiVo’d Inside Racing tonight, expecting to watch Evening Attire’s win in the Queen’s County for the twelfth or thirteenth time,…
Horsemen in New York had little to be thankful for this year; in Thursday’s Saratogian, Paul Post reported that with the future of NY racing up in the air–STILL!—trainers are looking for stalls elsewhere. Trainer Rick Violette, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, is quoted extensively, saying, “Getting the Legislature back, even for…
As Ed Fountaine notes in Monday’s NY Post, there are thirty racing days left in 2007, and still no word on who will be running New York racing on the first day of 2008. The mind boggles; when this process began literally years ago, it was inconceivable that we’d be in this position at this…
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…
Brooklyn Backstretch 