When racing season starts the road to the Kentucky Derby, a 35 race series becomes an objective for most all owners and trainers. Most don’t realize their dream for one… read more →
This article serves as Part 2 of a two-part piece. My observations on one facet of marketing horse racing–to youths–based on things I observed at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes/Triple… read more →
In case you’ve ever wondered why I don’t experience an event, then turn around and write about it immediately–as do reporters–it’s because I’m a mulling kind of person. i.e., I… read more →
Beholder – who was named the champion 2-year-old filly for 2012 and 3-year-old filly for 2013 – kept up her winning ways Saturday at age 5 with a victory in… read more →
The grey, dark rain pelted West 34th Street in Manhattan, in the way that film directors try to re-create. Cold, blood-freezing-cold rain. Rain that gives you a headache, and makes… read more →
If the roads and horse paths of a race track are the veins and arteries that facilitate the transportation of Life, then surely the track kitchen–at which all paths cross–is… read more →
I’m sick to death of reading and hearing that horse racing in American needs a Triple Crown victory. Good Lord, the way people talk, one would think that a win… read more →
OK, so here’s the deal: This is really just a copy-and-paste of a press release that I just got from NYRA, in which the events for today (Memorial Day, 2015)… read more →
Some people enjoy being miserable. Or they enjoy making other people miserable. Or it might just be that they love belly-aching, always finding something about which to complain. Last year,… read more →
With all the hype that built up to the second leg of the Triple Crown yesterday at Pimlico–and all the Pharoahnies gathering steam as the week came to a climax… read more →