Kinnon LaRose was looking for his next move. Twenty-two, living in Connecticut, a recent graduate. Five years of collegiate basketball, 160 or so games and a thousand others from pickup to playground all behind him. Hoop aspirations had pretty much run their course, high school records had turned into college … Read More

The things I’ve learned at Saratoga… Do it early. It’s a long meet these days but it goes fast. Schedule it, make it happen. Early. Hey, John Panagot, let’s get that beer Sunday and talk about the days when you had to interview Bobby Frankel for The Special. Rich, crank … Read More

Three starts. Three stakes. Three seconds. That’s the tally at Saratoga so far. Cyber Ninja produced another solid run to finish second in the Jonathan Kiser Memorial Thursday. No excuse. Settled, jumped, rallied and just couldn’t run down the winner. A half-length loss. If you’re keeping score, we are a … Read More

“What happened to The Saratoga Special?” Vince Bonanni’s text blasted across my phone Saturday afternoon, somewhere and sometime between picking up Miles at Governor’s School in Western Virginia and the Virginia Bolts playing ball at James Madison High School in Northern Virginia. I wasn’t exactly watching Saratoga or worrying about … Read More

The cat fled the room. That’s how the third race at Colonial played out Sunday afternoon as Annie, Charles and I watched Win Street rally from last to first in the stretch to land the $40,000 maiden claimer. Lagging in last, bumping and grinding along the rail, then a gap, … Read More