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Road to the Roses Redux

The annual Road to the Roses contest has officially opened; here’s my (almost entirely predictable and possibly risible) stable:

Adore the Gold – I’m not sure whether I really like him or not, but he did look interesting in the Swale.Any Given Saturday – Another ‘why not throw him in’ entry.Belgravia – Again, operating on […]

Distaff Division

Equidaily brings up the gender issue as well this week (and the TBA’s own Jen Morrison was invited to weigh in) — they ask whether the horse racing fan-base is male-dominated and what should be done about it.

While it may be true that there are more male racing fans than female ones in the […]

Road to the Roses

Well, this year’s Derby and Oaks sites are officially up; I found not a little humor in this part of the press release:

The most exciting new feature of the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Web sites is the implementation of exclusive weblogs (“blogs”) written by some of the leading handicappers in horse racing, covering […]

Hospital Fun with NYRA

The best NY coverage is at Left at the Gate, but I felt I should weigh in on the hospital issue that cancelled racing at Aqueduct the other day. The jockeys want to be taken to North Shore University Hospital, rather than Jamaica Hospital whenever possible, while NYRA wants to send them to Jamaica.

Some […]

Preview

Bill Finley has a nice article on Barbaro’s yearling full brother; he still has very much of the cute colt look about him, but seems as though he could grow into a nice horse. The pressure seems to be off Man in Havana, as he’s ‘only’ a half brother; this colt and the one other […]

Retail Therapy?

Perhaps, gentle reader, you are at a loss as to how you might best commemorate Barbaro. You’ve already made a donation to the Barbaro Fund or perhaps the Laminits Fund, but now you are looking for something tangible to keep and display at home.

Luckily for you, any number of retailers are there to support […]

No Title Needed

It was a tough day at work yesterday, both on a practical level (simply keeping our servers up was a challenge) and of course emotionally. Some of the better articles I have come across include this one by Jane Smiley and Beyer’s commentary is worth a read as well. Meghan O’Rourke’s piece for Slate is, […]

Normal Service Resumes

Apologies for the dearth of posts lately, I’ve been out of town and then very, very busy (and I don’t even get free press passes anymore, so that slows me down). The Eclipse Awards were as you would expect — no real news to report there.

I am very much looking forward to Sweetnorthernsaint’s return […]

And So It Begins…Again

Steven Haskin has written his first list of Triple Crown contenders for 2007. On the whole, his list has the horses you would expect – Nobiz Like Shobiz, Circular Quay, Hard Spun and Street Sense are all legitimate names to bandy about at this point. He also mentions Belgravia as an up-and-comer — I always […]

Local Color

Hard Spun faces off against Teuflesberg on the 13th in the Lecomte Stakes in his first foray outside the local area. In my opinion they are an intriguing matchup: three-year-olds who happen to be approaching this race from opposite ends of the spectrum — Hard Spun has never had to work too hard in a […]

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