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 […]
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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 […] I’m unwell and working from home today, so I finally watched ‘Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story‘ — and I must say I learned a lot about the racing business I never knew — for example: Small children are allowed on the track to check on injured horses Injured graded stakes winners can change hands […] 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 […] Apparently Hard Spun quite likes the Churchill Downs surface — I’m pleased to be proven wrong in this instance: This notice is to inform you that one or more of your horses has worked out.Hard SpunYour Comment: Date: April 12, 2007Track: CHURCHILL DOWNSDistance: Five FurlongsTime: 1.00:20 BreezingTrack Condition: FastSurface: DirtRank: 1/15 Edit: Teuflesberg […] I finally decided to commit my Derby Top Ten to the interweb, for good or ill: Great Hunter – I’ve long suspected he’s Doug O’Neill’s only real shot; I like the fact that he’s never been out of the money and he’s a good PA-bred. His legal quagmire should provide a great backstory come Derby […] There’s a review in the Times today of Not By a Long Shot by T.D. Thornton; as it happens, I’ve just finished reading it myself. While it’s easy to find plenty of books on famous racehorses, few have addressed the daily realities for the majority of the sport’s participants — the back and forth of […] I suspect I am one of the three people in the world who happens to be very excited about the news that Mary Aiken Littauer’s books and papers have been donated to the International Museum of the Horse: While libraries and archives may not garner the same public excitement as international exhibitions [ed: what?], I […] Nobiz Like Shobiz looked all business in his Wood Memorial victory; the blinkers did indeed seem to be a big help to him and he finished the race well. Any Given Saturday looked a bit tired, but very game in his third-place finish and Phipps homebred Sightseeing looked very impressive in second (although trainer Shug […] While I cannot agree that this year’s Wood Memorial is ‘the last major Kentucky Derby prep race — and the biggest‘ (that honor goes to the Blue Grass) it will still be fun to watch. Although I’ll be out of town and will miss watching the race live, I fully expect my TiVo to show […] |
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