Sean's Blog

Second

Solid effort from Pietrelcina at Pimlico Sunday. Making his 4-year-old debut, the son of Noble Mission settled near the back, stopped and started a few times and rallied wide to finish second for Danielle Hodsdon and jockey Horacio Karamanos. I hate to lose but that was an encouraging loss, at … Read More

Road Trip

Hi Ho Pimlico. We’re off to the races. Keep the grill warm, the laughs rolling and the drinks cold, we’ll be back after a short jaunt to one of our favorite racetracks. Set for a renovation, Pimlico holds a lot of memories for us, and we’ll make sure to appreciate … Read More

The Belmont Special

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

Passing the Time

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

Success

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

FRIDAY Night Lights

Juggling DocWeek Middleburg, Radnor Steeplechase, the Preakness and the rest of life’s curveballs. Three runners at Radnor Saturday. The end of the spring season. So fast. We said goodbye to Will O’Keefe today. A beautiful service at Glenwood Park for one of the good guys. They said he called 5,000 … Read More

NO. No. No. Yes.

Poem a Day…Tim Ferris…Daily Stoic…Air Mail…Old Ox Brewery… The emails. The emailed newsletters. So many. Some I actually read. Today’s from my favorite podcast, How I Built This, was short, sweet and to the point. Here goes. Hello Sean! On the most recent How I Built This, Madeline Haydon (founder of the … Read More

Hump Day

Feels like hump day. No man’s land. Long day so far and it’s not half over. In between weekend recaps and weekend previews, a NSF board call, the second week of DocWeek. The Iroquois slowly fading behind us. Great day at the races. Radnor looming. The Preakness, too. I miss … Read More

Morning Swim

Well, there’s the story of the day. Done and dusted. “I took a few layers off and jumped in.” Horse people. Nothing like em.

went Racing

Elation. Deflation. The daily double of horse racing. We had a little bit of both Saturday. A win, two seconds, two thirds, a sixth and an eighth in seven starts. Jimmy Dan and Teddy Davies came through with a facile score in the 110 handicap at Willowdale. The 6-year-old improved … Read More