Off a lengthy break between posts — and my second post off the layoff should be even better — a couple of seemingly unrelated matters caught my eye.
Together they build on my last post, about the state of the racing business in the mid-Atlantic, and the wonderfully named Quinella Queen’s question about what the business [...]
Jeff Jacobs, owner of Colonial Downs, put out the “For Sale” sign on his track the other day. You can read more here.
It comes down to money, Jacobs says, and the lack of alternative gaming (read, slots) or additional sources of revenue. Evidently, Old Dominion legislators have shown no real interest in adding [...]
Repeat champion of the What A Summer Stakes. Fan favorite. Retiree. Newly minted millionaire. Veteran racemare Silmaril was all of these things and more after her impressive last-to-first victory in yesterday’s featured What A Summer Stakes at Laurel.
Post-race, trainer Chris Grove simply said, “That is how true champions go out.”
And [...]
You know a person isn’t lying when they open the conversation with, “I have some bad news for you.”
Which is what our trainer said to me the other day.
It turns out that he meant bad as in “career-ending,” as opposed to bad, as in “tragic/horrible/death on the racetrack.”
He also meant bad, as in “occurring to [...]
Look, I told myself, everyone makes these stupid year-end lists: top 10, bottom 10, who’s in, who’s out, who’s up and coming, who’s down on their luck. It’s one of the truly ridiculous rites of this time of year.
And then I found myself thinking of making a list. Sigh.
And so, I’m here to [...]
