On Tuesday, voters nationwide will make major decisions regarding the future of our country. In the horse racing world, none of those decisions will be more important than the one that Maryland voters will make: whether or not to allow slot machines in the Free State.
The Washington Post and its anti-slots pals have kept up [...]
Horses of which I’ve owned a piece have made a total of one start in Grade I company — and that one start was a shot in the dark.
Spectacular Malibu, a filly owned and managed by our pals at Country Life Farm, went off as, and ran like, the longest shot on the board in [...]
Fillies stole the show both days of this year’s Breeders’ Cup.
That was no surprise on Friday, since only fillies and mares were invited to the party. It was somewhat more of a surprise — though not much of one, since she was the fave — on Saturday, however, when European invader Goldikova knocked off defending [...]
No ladies on the track on Ladies Day, but plenty of terrific racehorses putting on a great show, a big show, a king size show. Or queen size. Whatever.
The obvious, and anticipated, star of the show was uber-filly Zenyatta, who spanked a really good group of fillies and mares in the Ladies Classic-nee Distaff. With [...]
A year ago, I was consumed with the Breeders’ Cup, which in blogging parlance means that I put up three or four posts on it.
Hey, that’s a lot for me!
This year, other issues — like a really fascinating presidential race, and the impending vote on slot machines in Maryland — have taken center stage in [...]
Confession time: I haven’t been a Curlin fan.
I have my reasons, of course. I’m not a fan of his trainer, Steve Asmussen, with his long-as-your-arm record of fines and suspensions. You couldn’t like Curlin’s original owners, the Fen-phen twins; and truth be told, I find Jess Jackson more than a little too self-righteous for my [...]
Just returned (well, yesterday, technically) from a several-day sojourn to Lexington to check out (and slightly profit from) the races at Keeneland, visit the sire of our prospective foal, and catch up with some friends old and new (hey, Teresa!).
And what awaits?
Well, Curlin is in the Breeders’ Cup after all, which isn’t exactly news — [...]
Victorious races are hard to come by. They are the culmination of a journey, a billion variables all going just right: the right genetic components, the right owners, the right trainer and training regimen, the right sequence of efforts leading to the race, the right distance and surface, the right horse in the right spot. [...]
Saturday’s 23rd annual Maryland Million day at Laurel Park — a smorgasbord of 12 stakes races restricted to horses sired by stallions standing in Maryland — offered in abundance what Maryland racing seems to deliver every day: a glorious past tempered by a middling present and concern about the future.
A crowd of nearly 22,000 jammed [...]
