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Does Steve Know?

More on the post positions tomorrow, but in the meantime, I offer this photo from Philly.com — does Steve Asmussen know about this?

Aside from the Derby news (which obviously is tricky this week), congrats to John Servis on win number 1000. Hopefully that makes up for not training Hard Spun any more…I wonder what […]

Musical Trainers

While it seems the Curlin is emerging as the favorite at this point (and there have been a number of articles documenting his ownership and trainer changes, there’s been little credit given to trainer Helen Pitts for getting him to the track in the first place. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, he was […]

Drape vs. Beyer

Joe Drape was awarded the first Castleton Lyons-THOROUGHBRED TIMES Book Award for his excellent biography of jockey Jimmy ‘Wink’ Winkfield — Black Maestro, The Epic Life of an American Legend. Drape’s cogent articles in the New York Times are always well-considered and well worth a read; his article today about Dominican and Curlin is matter-of-fact […]

A Most Peculiar Blue Grass

Joe Drape of the NY Times describes the Blue Grass as ‘strangely run‘ which is perhaps the best way to sum it up — it seemed part turf race, part training exercise. Without taking anything away from victor Dominican (about whom there is an interesting feature article here), Street Sense looked less tired and more […]

Fun With Litigation

With the (somewhat diminished) Blue Grass Stakes fast approaching, there are the predictable articles painting it as a face-off between Great Hunter and Street Sense and indeed they are certainly the headliners (although I continue to have a soft spot for Teuflesberg, now to be ridden by Edgar Prado, and Dominican is one to watch […]

Bye Bye, Bay Meadows

Developers have been trying to buy the land Bay Meadows sits on for years; it’s prime Silicon Valley real estate and the imperative seems to be to build more overpriced identical condos and cheaply-built, equally-overpriced office space on a part of the peninsula that can’t really support further development. (This is an opinion based on […]

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