Aqueduct: The $150,000 Jerome at 1-mile (Kentucky Derby qualifying points: 10-4-2-1) The Jerome may have come up light, but it does mark the return of GI Champagne winner #7 FIRENZE FIRE (3-5), who didn’t fire in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile but has found a very soft group for his 3yo debut for Servis, and the son…
The 2015 road to the Kentucky Derby kicked off in New York on Saturday with the Grade III Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. The first race this year to carry Kentucky Derby qualifying points was won by Zayat Stables’ El Kabeir, getting the third win of his career on a miserably cold and…
Today, we celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday. We don’t know for sure when he was born, but he was baptized on April 26, 1564, and today is the day widely acknowledged as his birthday. Yesterday was closing day at Aqueduct, a sodden, sloppy, chilly day far more redolent of winter than of spring. And the day before…
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention… Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth… Prologue to Henry V, William Shakespeare We are just a few days away from the date accepted as Shakespeare’s birthday – April 23,…
Brooklyn Backstretch 