On one of my trips to Kentucky in the past couple of years, I chatted a bit with a friendly thoroughbred trainer. At least, he started out friendly. I’m not sure which statement of mine soured his mood the most. My first faux pas was admitting that I was from Connecticut. A standard question first [...]
We interrupt the ongoing “How I Spent My Autumn Vacation” report to give you a heads-up on a big upcoming international race. Video of the 2008 Melbourne Cup (it’s a close one) Move over, Monday night football. The Melbourne Cup will be on TV in the US. Go ahead and laugh. But you won’t when [...]
The “Twitter Round-up” seems to be turning into a regular feature here. Because there’s some juicy stuff flying around the micr0blogging service that you might enjoy. I’d save them for later, but news on Twitter is fleeting. Let’s look at some of this while it’s somewhat fresh, at least for this month. An Arabian horse [...]
An 80 year old trainer won his twelfth Melbourne Cup. Think about it. It’s the “staying championship of the world.” And it’s been going on for 148 years. And he’s won 12 of them. Bart Cummings’s horse Viewed squeaked past second place horse Bauer by a nose, almost by just a nostril. The timing of [...]
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The Melbourne Cup may be billed as “the race that stops a nation,” but it’s largely ignored outside Australia. That’s too bad because it’s a longer race than The Belmont Stakes, which is a test of stamina. The Melbourne Cup is considered “the staying championship of the world.” Anyway, if you’re a casual racing fan [...]
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