I have this friend. He’s a great guy, the sort of guy who’d give you the shirt off his back without a second thought.
He’s also a terrible handicapper, a fate exacerbated by a weird cloud of bad luck that dogs his selections.
So, when he proudly reported to me a week or two ago that he’d [...]
In the Horseracing Bloggers Oath (HrBO) — a more exacting relative of the Hippocratic Oath — we solemnly swear to blog about the Kentucky Derby and to uphold its status as the race of all races and the ultimate dream of all owners, etc.
And just this morning, a fellow from the HrBO Enforcement Office contacted [...]
Spent the morning at Laurel watching Homefire, Steelix, and Higher Authority do their thing. Here’s the story of the morning, in verse form, from quotes overheard:
There’s no reason he can’t be a good horse,
jumping shadows, but still much the best,
came out of the gate and took a left turn:
scared the rider, couldn’t get her straight [...]
This one-eyed, handlebar-moustached gentleman is Mr. Boh. (Visit him here).
Mr. Boh is the longtime mascot of Baltimore’s own National Bohemian Beer. Mr. Boh used to spend a lot of time at Orioles’ games, back when the Birds called Memorial Stadium home. He’s made appearances in pop culture (e.g., Mary Prankster’s “Blue Skies over Dundalk”).
Truthfully, though, [...]
These last few days have certainly shown us the full spectrum of horse racing: from the sublime to the ridiculous, top to bottom.
Sometimes in one operation.
That, of course, would be the Jeff Mullins operation. As we all know by now, Mullins was caught, smoking gun in hand — actually, dripping syringe in hand — by [...]
