The problem with having too much to do at the moment is that the world — discourteously — continues to spin on its axis whether I blog about it or not. As a result, a variety of racing news of some import has come and gone without me.
The nerve.
Nonetheless, one post that’s been gnawing at [...]
A mid-August list of the leading first-crop sires — courtesy of the Blood-Horse — is a little like a message sent by the future to those of us stuck in the present, or, in this Olympic year, the first few strides of a long race.
The truth is that none of us knows who will make [...]
The death of Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby brought an avalance of needed — though, at least to the powers that be, unwanted — attention to the treatment of horses in the sport.
In other words, there was a lot of screaming and shouting. One of the loudest groups, which is not the same [...]
A couple of years ago, Erin and I attended opening day of the April race meet at Keeneland. As the gates opened for the otherwise nondescript first race, a huge cheer went up from the big crowd, an eruption of joy that seemed to say, “Finally, racing is back home!”
Maryland racing, on the other hand, [...]
Injury lurks around every corner for our equine charges. A bad step, a flying rock, a suddenly developed breathing problem — any of these can forever alter a racing career, a life, and all are but a moment away from becoming reality.
We send them out to race, for that is what racehorses do, and at [...]
Colonial Downs ends its two-month thoroughbred race meet tonight, and racing returns to Maryland with a mini-meet at Laurel, commencing on Friday.
The Laurel meet, however, begins amidst a growing sense of doom.
According to the Baltimore Sun, via our friends at the Paulick Report, the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (MTHA) has announced plans to cut funding [...]
The dysfunctional road show that is Team Big Brown came to Monmouth Park yesterday, and they left with the biggest prize of all, the winner’s share of the $1 million, Grade I Haskell.
There, after the race, were the principals of majority owner IEAH Stables, Michael Iavarone and Richard Schiavo, looking far more relieved than joyful. [...]
