Sean's Blog

Settling into Saratoga. Spent one hour, 11 minutes and 23 seconds with D. Wayne Lukas this morning. Just the Hall of Fame trainer and I outside his tack room deep in the corner of the Oklahoma backside. And a Preakness winner and a lead pony. Lukas talked about everything from … Read More

Another park. Another parking lot. Another game. Another day. The rescheduled all-star game on a Sunday afternoon. Miles slides into his sliders, hauls his baseball bag over his shoulder and slams the backdoor. “Have fun.” “Thanks, Dad.” Miles walks toward the far corner of the park. Past the batting tee, … Read More

Sitting on a porch. Sun’s out. A gentle breeze. A bird or two chirp. An American flag wisps from a a flower box. For a moment of peace. We powered – muddled, crawled, limped – through yesterday. Old friends. Old faces. Another funeral, er, a celebration of life on a … Read More

Back in the car for a trip north. To a celebration of life for F. Bruce Miller and then a trip to see my father and a trip to Saratoga next week. A lot of memories and emotions in the sidecar. Some good, some bad, some still confounding. Life, I … Read More

Whew, just looked at the calendar. Well, actually just took note of the calendar. Two weeks from yesterday. That’s the day of the first edition of The Belmont Special. New this year, the four-day newspaper will cover the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. A mini racing festival. A racing bonus. A … Read More

Road trip to Rehoboth Beach to see Dad. Eight-nine. Still going strong. Not as strong as he once was, no, but strong just the same. We went for coffee and a sandwich yesterday. Then to Rehoboth Beach Running Company for a new pair of HOKAS. He got the blue on … Read More

A winner to finish the season. Penicillin Success capped the spring season with a win in the finale at Radnor yesterday. Stephen Mulqueen deputized for Graham Watters (out with a whip ban) on the Jack Fisher trainee. The discussion in the paddock was to keep it simple. Break sharply and … Read More