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
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
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
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
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.
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
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