Out here in Racing-land, we tend to think that the past has a distinctly roseate hue.
Hunched over our metaphorical mug of beer, we grumble, “Back in the old days, racing was better. Racing mattered! Big crowds everyday! Horsemen were real horsemen. Horses were real horses. And owners were real owners — rich people who didn’t [...]
There was a moment, after unheralded New York-bred Funny Cide won the 2003 Kentucky Derby, where the members of the racing world looked at each other, then at the happy crew in the winner’s circle, and asked: “Who are these guys?”
A moment later, America fell in love with the “gutsy gelding,” the somewhat motley, happy-go-lucky [...]
Ken Gibson, one-time mayor of Newark, NJ — the nation’s first African-American big city mayor — once proclaimed, “Wherever American cities are going, Newark will get there first.”
He turned out to be exactly right — just not in the way he imagined. Through the testing times of the 1970s and 1980s, Newark came to be [...]
Here are a few articles that were in Sunday’s Washington Post:
A quarter pager on an area high school track meet;
Another quarter page article on a local high school basketball game;
Snippets on World Cup skiing, English Premier League soccer, and a hockey all-star game played in Russia involving players in a European league;
Summaries, including box scores, [...]
Not too long ago, we had a horse — call him Bob — with a problem.
Bob’s problem was not a lack of talent; unlike many horses, he had some of that. Bob’s problem was mental.
He had, shall we say, an aversion to winning. Bob would track the pace, move readily to even terms with the [...]
