Sean's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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