I wish I could tell you exactly when this event happened…but I can’t. Or that I had a photo to post here, so that you could see what I saw…but… read more →
So, what do an Overo Thoroughbred named Silvery Moon and the Byerley Turk have in common? Both, extremely rare. Both, underappreciated by most in American horse racing, both fans and… read more →
Sitting in the barn office of Thoroughbred Trainer, Gary Contessa on Belmont Stakes Day morning three weeks ago, we had no idea that something fabulous was about to be foaled.… 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 →
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 →