Big Brown Duck
EquineProject.com | 08/21/08 06:34
Interesting that a NY trainer and outfit chooses every which way but NY. For me the Travers is the race you really want to win. Sure Monmouth's Haskell is an excellent race, but few horsemen would rather win that than the Travers. Big ..
Big Brown Skips Town (Saratoga)
The Saratoga Sire | 08/21/08 04:42
It's hard to keep up with the news of where Big Brown will next be seen. First Philadelphia Park offers to up the ante in the PTHA President's Cup (1-1/8 T) to $1 million if BB runs and it looks like the Brown team have gotten their wish. T..
Triple Crown Winner Today At The Spa
POWER CAP | 08/21/08 03:09
Finally after umpteen years we finally have a triple crown winner. Okay well it was just the New York bred triple crown series and not the famous Derby/Preakness/Belmont thing. While some people will marginalize the accomplishment of beatin..
Gen Y Soon to Inundate Racetracks
Post Parade | 08/21/08 00:19
As many of you prepare for the upcoming Travers Stakes , I'm sure that you noticed this little ditty in The Blood-Horse , Marketing Summit to Focus on New Fans . The National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Marketing Summit, to be held Se..
Scientists Announce New Test for West Nile Virus in Horses
The Jurga Report: Horse Health Headlines | 08/21/08 00:01
A new test for West Nile virus in horses that could be modified for use with humans and wildlife may help track the spread of the disease, according to an article in the September issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology. “Thousands o..
Saratoga Notes
Left At The Gate | 08/20/08 23:05
- Impressive run by Relatively Ready in Wednesday's second. Dead last down the backstretch after being steadied repeatedly early as Get Stormy set a leisurely uncontested pace, this two-year old son of More Than Ready took off on the turn, ..
How the hell did I miss this?
Brad Buys a Yearling | 08/20/08 19:52
Fairgrounds Racecourse in New Orleans is hosting a brief quarter horse meet I was perusing the 2nd page of the form this morning, looking at the post times for tracks running today when POW, there's Fairgrounds with a mid-afternoon first p..
New Poll, Marketing to New Fans
Green but Game | 08/20/08 19:45
How does one go about creating new fans anyway? (E-BAD) The rumor is true, I'm 42… oh, and I'm on the “newly created marketing task force” empaneled by Social Sphere and NTRA. In addition to the folks mentioned by name an..
Tropical Storm Fay Spawns Twister in Wellington, Florida; Equine Clinic and Sports Complex Damaged
Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal | 08/20/08 19:40
This image from the Los Angeles Times shows damage to the Palm Beach Equine Clinic and Sports Complex in Wellington, Florida yesterday. According to several reports, a tornado ripped through the showgrounds and especially damaged the Palm ..
Personal Ensign Stakes
Graded Stakes Blog | 08/20/08 16:01
Personal Ensign (Grade 1) 8/22/08 #1 Ginger Punch (4-5)- Robert Frankel and Rafael Bejarano hook up to bring this defending Champion Older Female to the track. Her only loss this year came to the undefeated Zenyatta. She has been a heavy fa..
2 Olympic Questions
Pulling Hair & Betting Horses | 08/20/08 15:47
How can the 100m mark be 9.69 and the 200m be 19.30 (do they really run the second 100m faster than the first?) 2nd I have to laugh at the He Kexin situation. How many horses are literally born on Dec 31st? Like 2. How many our born on Jan ..
Stranger things have happened, Foal Born at LaD
Thoroughbred Race Horse Blog | 08/20/08 14:00
This morning when we arrived at the track for training a rumor was floating around about a foal born on the backside in the middle of the night. By 6 am it was confirmed, a 2 year old filly gave birth to a filly during the night in the Pat ..
Common Sense
They're in the Gate | 08/20/08 13:07
So Yesterday around 5 pm or so I am driving down the highway listening to Ch. 126 on Sirius to "At the Races with Steve Byk" and Trainer Bobby Ribaudo (Trainer of Sword Dancer Winner Grand Couturier)is on and he says something like- If we a..
Photos and Food
Left At The Gate | 08/20/08 13:01
- You may be happy to know that I didn't take too many photos in Saratoga. I mean, I did, but they mostly looked the same as prior years. There's the paddock photo, the backyard photo, the photo of the horses walking down the path to be sad..
Hilary Clayton Equine Biomechanics Lecture in Pennsylvania September 24th
Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal | 08/20/08 11:01
ANNOUNCEMENT: Hilary M. Clayton, BVMS, PhD, MRCVS will be the speaker at the Dressage at Devon Forum in Devon, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. With her lecture The Bio-Mechanics of the Horse , participants will also be able ..
Travers Draw Complete
EquiSpace | 08/20/08 10:41
(courtesy: The Saratoga Resident)
Big Apple Triple at Stake Today at the Spa
EquiSpace | 08/20/08 08:59
I wanna be there Wanna go back down and lie beside the sea there With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine And Im a chewin on a honeysuckle vine ~Jimmy Buffet (1974, Tin Cup Chalice) Finger Lakes shipper Tin Cup Chalice g..
Meadowlands Off On 9/30…Traver's Heads Weekends Action
ThoroughbredZone.Com | 08/20/08 08:58
The Meadowlands meet kicks off on Septmeber 30th 2008 and ThoroughbredZone will be ready. Stay tuned for more on the Meadowlands meet. Big Traver's wekend on tap at Saratoga…More this week on the summer highlight of the Spa meet. Th..
Guess who's coming to dinner The Travers
Gathering the wind | 08/20/08 08:22
The TBA is movin' on up. In a shocking development, someone at the NTRA actually had a good idea. Congratulations to Handride, Railbird, GbG, Aspiring Horseplayer and Troy Racki (ashamed to say I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ..
A Filly for The Diva
SuperfectaBlog | 08/20/08 07:49
Makybe Diva's second foal has arrived -- it's a filly this time. The Fusaichi Pegasus filly was born at Segenhoe Stud in Australia's Hunter Valley and it seems that mother and baby are both doing very well. Plans to head to Coolmore for a ..
NEED MORE NEW
Jen's Thorough-blog | 08/20/08 07:36
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE..... Yearling time! Dozens of owners, trainers and even jockeys visited RICHARD HOGAN'S BALLYLYNCH FARM in Kleinburg yesterday for an early preview of some of Hogan's yearling consignment at the upcoming S..
Being Bullish
Brooklyn Backstretch | 08/20/08 04:00
“Is Mr. Schwartz around?” I ask a stable hand, having no idea what the trainer looks like. He looks at me skeptically. “Not here right now,” he says. “Be back in a few minutes. In a pink cart.” A pink cart? OK. That should make..
Some items including post-SPA decompression
Your Average Horseplayer | 08/20/08 00:10
It's a amazing that as slow as this blog has been lately, I just received a comment from a post dated April 3rd, 2008 - that's over 4 months ago for those of you keeping score at home!! These inner-tubes of ours never cease to amaze. Anonym..
THW: Juvenile Surprise
Gogirl Racing » English | 08/19/08 20:41
THE HOARSE WHISPERER By Jenny Ortuoste for Manila Standard-Today, 20 August 2008, Wednesday Juvenile Surprise Security World proved her value as a runner last Sunday (August 17) with her impressive win in the first leg of the Philippine ..
Ballston Spa Handicap
Graded Stakes Blog | 08/19/08 19:01
Ballston Spa Handicap (Grade 2) #1 Wait A While- Todd Pletcher and Garrett Gomez won this race with this magnificent mare last year. She has two wins from two starts at the distance. Her win in last years Ballston Handicap began a streak of..
Not Jacques Who
Left At The Gate | 08/19/08 18:23
- Reader Bank Check wrote: Highland Cat......the new Jacques Who????? As you may know, Jacques Who is a horse who raced in the early 70's and acquired a reputation for finishing second....to the point where his name has become a catch phras..
Onward to Vegas!
THE ASPIRING HORSEPLAYER | 08/19/08 18:08
First off, I need to apologize to regular readers of The Aspiring Horseplayer. I know my blogging has been sporadic over the last few weeks - that daily (or in all honesty semi-daily) rush of content, analysis, opinion, and general random..
Restess Natives
The Race Is Not Always To The Swift. . . | 08/19/08 16:00
In Turf Writers Find a Home on the Internet, Steven Crist tells the sad tale of turf writers who can no longer go home, thrown from the bus and walking the shoulder of the road on the Internet. A few have hung out their blogging shingle, b..
Dream Come True
Pulling Hair & Betting Horses | 08/19/08 15:05
So, this is why posting is light. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Marketing Summit . To say the TBA is represented well in this group is an understatement. I'll let them chime in exactly who they are, but mentioned is GbG and..
Genuine Risk and her Successors
SuperfectaBlog | 08/19/08 12:04
The biggest racing news of the past 24 hours is the death of Genuine Risk ; as a tribute, Washingtonian.com has re-published a great 2002 article detailing her racing success, breeding troubles and eventual happy retirement. Genuine Risk's..
Another one bites the dust…..
EquineProject.com | 08/19/08 09:47
Bay Meadows quietly became another racing ghost this week after 7 decades. Then I read how River Downs isn't getting Thoroughbred dates in 2009 nor is Beulah. While none of these tracks are to be compared to Saratoga or Del Mar, with each ..
Golden Horseshoes: Holland's Farrier in Hong Kong
Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal | 08/19/08 09:03
He's going for the gold. Lift up one of Salinero's shoes and the entire country of The Netherlands would believe that they are made of gold. In the next few hours, Anky Van Grunsven of Holland and Isabell Werth of Germany go for the gold m..
Hastings Reduces Takeout On Show Bets; Cangamble Unenthused
CANADIAN GAMBLING NEWS AND ISSUES | 08/19/08 08:54
One Really Small Step In The Right Direction? Hastings recently announced that they lowered their track takeout on show bets from 17% to 12% . It might mean that tracks are starting to get it (wishful thinking, and most likely not the case..
Golden Horseshoes: German Farrier Shoes the Olympic Champions
Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal | 08/19/08 07:28
Dieter Krohnert, Official Farrier of the German Equestrian Teams Since 1990, the German equestrian teams have not left home without him. And since 1990, they have won all the Olympic team gold medals in dressage. Dieter is an enigmatic glo..
TALKING
Jen's Thorough-blog | 08/19/08 07:15
BLACKIE ON HIS WAY TO WOODBINE! BETTER TALK NOW, who has been to Woodbine twice and won the SKY CLASSIC HANDICAP (GR 2) in 2006 the last time he came up here, is reportedly coming back for the $2 million PATTISON CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL on ..
Saratoga Notes
Left At The Gate | 08/19/08 07:03
- Owner Kenneth Ramsey continues to be active at the meeting. He, and trainer Michael Maker (17-6-2-1, 35%), took Monday's opener with Last Tram ($7.30); another one for the connections dropping in claiming price (and not claimed). Ramsey/M..
Just Zip It Nipped in Stakes
Left At The Gate | 08/19/08 06:22
- No doubt that By the Light was best in the Union Avenue stakes on Monday; her 1-5 odds seemed completely appropriate. But you still gotta open the gate and run the race, and when they opened the gate for this one, Dutrow's daughter of Mal..
Week 4: sights, sounds, musings
Brooklyn Backstretch | 08/19/08 04:00
The Jacobson barn last week, on Spooky Mulder: “He doesn’t know he’s ten years old; he acts like a two-year-old.” On Sunday, Spooky beat four other horses in a $16,000 claimer at Monmouth, in his first and only start for trainer Dav..
Real Quiet
The Last Filly | 08/19/08 00:20
Yep, that would be me. I won't be melodramatic and say that I've lost interest in racing ... I haven't. Not even close. However, I am extraordinarily frustrated with the current 'state of the art'. Let me try to explain briefly, before I ga..
Pacific Classic Update
Graded Stakes Blog | 08/18/08 22:05
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="293" caption="Mast Track took the fast track in the Hollywood Gold Cup."][/caption] Within the next week some of the most important key races for the Breeders Cup will take place. The Pacific Classic,..
Sod, Off...
Gathering the wind | 08/18/08 21:17
'Do you have something in a walkover?' -Michael Iavarone Maybe I don't have all the details but this seemed like a golden opportunity for me to jump all over this imbecile, again. IEAH turns down a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi..
Objective "Lameness Locator" System Will Be Marketed by UMissouri Veterinarian
Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal | 08/18/08 21:04
Dr. Loni Taylor runs alongside a test horse. Three sensors are placed on the horse's head, the right front foot and the dorsum of the pelvis. The sensors measure the head acceleration, the pelvic acceleration and the right front leg angula..
Super Ladies
Green but Game | 08/18/08 20:33
News of super Ladies has been pouring in all day, some good and some not. Several folks have nice tributes to Genuine Risk, formerly the oldest living Derby winner. I first learned of the “big beautiful chestnut filly” here, whe..
Missouri Reports Uncommonly High Incidence of Potomac Horse Fever This Summer
The Jurga Report: Horse Health Headlines | 08/18/08 19:51
Potomac Horse Fever (PHF), a potentially fatal equine disease, is being reported among horses in the St. Louis area in unusually high numbers this summer. Dr. Philip Johnson, a veterinarian at the University of Missouri College of Veterinar..
Linda Rice hits the Trainer Superfecta
They're in the Gate | 08/18/08 19:41
Congratulations to one of my favorite Trainers Linda Rice who hit the Trainer Superfecta in the 6th race at the Spa Today, as all 4 horses she saddled in the 6th race, a $80,000 5 1/2 furlong turf race for 3 year olds and up, came in 1-2-3..
Genuine Risk
Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance | 08/18/08 18:56
All risks come with rewards while others come with defeat, but only risk taking leads to greatness. Preakness Belmont
In other, happier news:
Down the Stretch | 08/18/08 16:59
Witness!My fangirlish squee of delight! Retired Hall of Famers to ride at Oak Tree Eight Hall of Fame jockeys -- with combined earnings of more than $1.5 billion from 49,163 victories -- will compete in a pari-mutuel wagering event, The Liv..
Genuine Risk dead at 31
Down the Stretch | 08/18/08 15:54
GENUINE RISK [Exclusive Native x Virtuous (Gallant Man)] , the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner, died peacefully this morning in her paddock at Newstead Farm in Upperville, Virginia. She was 31 years old. Purchased for $32,000 at the 19..
Farewell Genuine Risk
Owning Racehorses | 08/18/08 14:17
The oldest living Kentucky Derby winner passed away earlier today at the age of 31 at the Firestone's farm in Upperville, VA. Trained by Leroy Jolley, Genuine Risk won the Kentucky Derby in 1980 - the first since Regret 65 years earlier. T..
Proud Moment
EquiSpace | 08/18/08 12:59
Champion filly Proud Spell pictured left after winning the 128th running of the Alabama Stakes (G1) on Saturday. The much maligned 20 year old Gabe Saez held off a gallant charge by the Sheikh's very talented Music Note in the battle of th..
