Not a lot of time to decompress in this sport. This world. Digesting and analyzing performances from the weekend. Where should we go next? Who’s fit enough? Who needs another spin? Who rides next? Where and when? Looking to the weekend overnight. We entered six and adding one more at … Read More
Include It returned just where he had left off. A winner. The 9-year-old Maryland-bred has now win six in a row (two point-to-points and four NSA races). Trained to perfection by Todd and Blair Wyatt and ridden to perfection by Elizabeth Scully, the son of Include lagged way behind in … Read More
It’s been a while. Cheltenham provided some of the buzz of racing morning. But not the buzz of having runners (stay tuned, we’ll have runners there next year). And more importantly going to see the runners. I’m a little out of practice. Passes…overnight…binoculars…extra silks…Waze… But it comes back to you. … Read More
Spring has sprung. Book the baseball tickets. Till the garden. Stow the wool. And get back to the races. Riverdee unleashes nine horses from four stables at three meets this weekend. Camden to Cheshire to Cockeysville. Snow Geese accounts for our first NSA starter of the season. Based in Camden … Read More
We are back in action this weekend. Our first runners of 2024. Snow Geese lines up in the second division of the maiden at Carolina Cup Saturday. Bernie and Kate Dalton put their southern base to good use with a win at Aiken. Hopefully that continues with our promising 4-year-old. … Read More
Congratulations to Upland Flats Racing, trainer Ricky Hendriks and jockey Harrison Beswick on West Newton’s win in the Aiken feature. Purchased for £40,000 by Stroud Coleman and Clancy Bloodstock way back in 2019, the son of Kitten’s Joy won for the fifth time over hurdles. Bred by The Queen, West … Read More
Been a while. Sick as a wet dog. Negative for Covid. And negative for the flu. But they didn’t test me for the Cheltenham Flu. You know, the letdown, the aftermath. This one comes with a cough, sore throat and achy bones. The steeplechase season starts Saturday. Riverdee is skipping … Read More
Four years. Four long years. Different this year. Very different. A tear or two welled into my eyes as I hugged Candida Baker. And then George Baker. Outside Terminal 2 at Heathrow on a beautiful sun-filled Sunday morning. Four beautiful days at Cheltenham in the books (the liver and the … Read More
And there was one. Final day of the Festival. The British leapt off the canvas Thursday with five wins. Grey Dawning stalked Ginny’s Destiny, jumped sweetly and drew off to win the opener for Dan and Harry Skelton. Monmiral put Skelton’s former boss, Paul Nicholls, on the board in the … Read More
And that’s why they run the races. Willie Mullins winning three more yesterday, including his 100th when his son, Patrick, guided Jasmin De Vaux to win the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. But he didn’t win them all. El Fabiolo, bowing out after slithering on his belly at the fifth in the … Read More
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