Numbers
2024 stats… Starts: 70. Wins: 13. Seconds: 13. Thirds: 16 Earnings: $397,161. Win percentage: 19%. In-the-money percentage: 60%.
Back to Work
Funny old Monday. Squeezed between Sunday and New Year’s Eve. Day on or day off? 44 and cloudy at 35538. Yeah, we are home. Alabama in the books. Early 2025 action for Riverdee as Lorraine returns to Turfway Park Friday night. As they say the price is gone. She was … Read More
Stars
Constitution Hill is back. A bumpy road since his last race, 366 days of heartache and heartburn to be exact. All that washed away as the the undefeated hurdler trounced the previously once-beaten Lossiemouth in the Ladbrokes Christmas Hurdle at Kempton. His launch, a nonchalant, scope-defying leap at the fourth … Read More
The Day after
Cardboard boxes stack high in the streets. Some folded like new shirts, hoping for a recycling miracle. Others look like they fell out of the back of a pickup after a sharp turn. Garbage bags with glints and a glimmers of wrapping paper pile on porches, by doors, by mailboxes. … Read More
Merry Christmas
Quiet on Christmas morning. Miles sleeps in these days, actually, he’s slept in all the days. Santa knew he could leave our house to late, like in-the-morning late, knowing nothing was stirring. Made it easy. It’s a Greek Alabama Christmas. Mild weather. Wild emotion. Shaia’s for a Bloody Mary Christmas … Read More
Two Days
How do I know it’s Christmas time? When the Horse Tracker on my Racing Post account goes dormant. Just for two days. Seventeen runners on Boxing Day. What a perfect marketing plan. Offer good racing the day after Christmas. Presents are unwrapped, the needles of the tree falling with every … Read More
Tough Call
28 degrees and windy at 35538. Not so bad. Reading further… “Feels like 17.” “Wind is making it feel colder.” I walk outside. The door nearly blows off the hinges. Kiss, Blue, EP and Apse huddle like four commuters waiting for a long-missed bus. I call off hunting. Partly the … Read More
White Friday
34 degrees, cloudy, snow expected in 28 minutes here in 35538. Looks like a dusting. Hopefully. Although I’ve heard myself saying that we need cold winters to keep the natural balance intact. Last winter was mild, balmy almost. So far, it’s been brisk and blustery. It’s meant to drop to … Read More
Point Taken
I stop my car. Just stop. Right smack in the middle of the driveway. The deer picks up his head, peers at me. He’s not just a deer. I can’t count points on a buck. But this must be 10, maybe 12, could be 14. He knows it. Stares at … Read More
