The turf’ll meet the surf today for the first time this year, and in a week they’ll be off at Saratoga for the millionth consecutive year (too lazy to look it up… sorry).
That confluence of events, perhaps combined with the impending demise of Hollywood Park and the rather less lamented probably final closure of Anthony [...]
When it comes to the evergreen topic of “what’s wrong with racing,” everyone has an opinion. (And, as a local track worker likes to remind me, opinions are like butts — everyone has one).
Some folks say it’s the marketing.
Others believe it’s the high takeout on bets.
Others decry the lack of superstars racing past their third [...]
“It’s a beautiful day for a night game.”
So said the Fordham Flash, baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch, sometime around 1935. Which almost makes it sound as if the good Jesuits at Fordham were churning out classes of Dizzy Dean-wannabes in the early part of the last century.
Nonetheless, the reason he would have said such [...]
One of racing’s many flaws, so we’re told, is its absence of recognizable stars. The rush to the breeding shed robs the sport and its fans of the game’s leading lights, most often before those lights even achieve their full radiance.
No doubt there’s truth in this analysis. The game would be better if Jess Jackson’s [...]
