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

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

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.