A brief respite to run the Boilermaker yesterday. The annual 15K festival in Utica, N.Y. The date falls right every six years when the first Sunday of the meet lines up with the date of the 9.3 mile run. We ran it in 2019, a long time ago. We ran … Read More

Still in history mode as we celebrate 25 years of The Special… We made it back for the second year. It was a close call. Looking back, I guess we broke even the first year. Certainly, didn’t make any money but we somehow, someway, saw a few glimmers of hope … Read More

An answer to a trivia question. Who is the only horse to win three maiden races in a season (possibly a career)? Vintage Year. The son of Point Of Entry won his third maiden race yesterday, storming from the back under Sheldon Russell to upset a maiden turf race at … Read More

Day after day. Set after set. Horse after horse. Story after story. Race after race. Summer after summer. This right here in your hand has been in my head. The Saratoga Special, a daily newspaper covering it all for the six weeks at Saratoga.  It’s been in there, rocking and … Read More

Chasing bids at sales around the world. Underbidder on one at Tattersalls at 4:30 in the morning. Hard to get back to bed after that. The 3-year-old Kentucky-bred goes off to Bahrain. He would have liked Kentucky Downs. Researched and followed a few at Fasig-Tipton, to no avail, as prices … Read More