I have mixed emotions about “Luck” HBO’s new series featuring horse racing. The drama will be great. The action scenes will rock. But do y’all really think it’ll get families and young people to the track? Some folks in racing are hoping it will. If you can’t see the embedded video, click here for the [...]
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Every couple of years or so, America falls in love with a horse. Usually, it’s a racing thoroughbred whose name and image spread throughout the land. A few detractors, usually handicappers, disagree – but most of the general public tunes them out. We know that the real money in handicapping comes in betting the longshots. [...]
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I am not a handicapper, nor do I play one on TV. But I can’t resist nosing around with some of the dosage profiles of this year’s Belmont contenders. Dosage has fallen out of favor, so much so that the pedigrees on the Belmont Stakes website don’t include dosage profiles. But I became intrigued by [...]
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No doubt – horse racing is a colorful sport. Except there’s one color no one likes to see at the track. Even if you’re a Kentuckian who “bleeds blue” or your favorite horse is ridden under blue silks, the blue item we don’t like to see causes crowds to gasp and fans to worry. That [...]
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Video promo for CBS “Undercover Boss” – Churchill Downs COO Other tracks may be hosting Kentucky Derby prep races. On this coming Sunday night, the CBS show “Undercover Boss” will take us to Churchill Downs for a look behind the scenes. Or under the spires. Share on Facebook
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Check out my guest post at Miami Mitch’s comprehensive sports tip site Sports Chat Place. Because I have a crazy good tip for maximum fun for a day at the racetrack. You can make bets that would shock my dear departed mother. And maybe even clean up big. Because, sometimes, those longshots do come in. [...]
In the world of “horses and culture,” the passing of best-selling, award-winning thriller author Dick Francis has been a Very Big Deal. If you usually read updates to this blog through an RSS feed reader, then you’ve missed all the links I’ve found and added to my previous post, the Dick Francis tribute. Share on [...]
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Before we went to Saratoga, my friend Sheryl had never attended a horse race. She’s from Connecticut and rode hunter-jumpers for a while. She’d been to Saratoga for concerts, but not for the racing. She has seen “Jockeys” on Animal Planet. I grew up in northern Kentucky and had been to both Latonia and River [...]
High maneuverability to high stepping to high speeds We have opportunities in the next couple of weeks to watch several equestrian disciplines compete. Share on Facebook
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