A lot of early buzz surrounded Coolmore's City of Troy, and he certainly lived up to the hype by co-winning the 2024 Longines World's Best Racehorse AwardView the full article

Byron King's Top 12 on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, presented by Spendthrift Farm.View the full article

York chief executive William Derby hopes success brings more success as the English racecourse looks to expand international competition in the Juddmonte International, 2024's Longines World's Best Horse Race.View the full article

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul presented some specifics to a plan that provides funding from the state—and the NYRA—to expand advanced imaging screening at the Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists hospital adjacent to Belmont Park.View the full article

Or Greenlane, right across the motorway from Ellerslie. $1 menu a great boon through university....

A necessary move by Trump , these deserve what they got or are about to get .   President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton. Many of the former officials are long retired and no longer hold active clearances — meaning that the move may have limited practical impact on their careers — but the order nevertheless suggests that Trump intends to act on threats he’s made to penalize national security and intelligence professionals whom he deems to be his enemies. “They should be prosecuted for what they did,” Trump said of the 51 former officials who signed the letter, at a campaign rally in June. The executive order also directs the director of national intelligence to submit a report to the White House documenting “any additional inappropriate activity that occurred within the Intelligence Community, by anyone contracted by the Intelligence Community or by anyone who held a security clearance” related to the letter, as well as any recommended disciplinary action, within 90 days.      

Those were the days eh Charlie--30 years ago Mince and Cheese at Glenfield Georgie for $1😄

Wednesday at Matamata and a big change in ground conditions from a Good 3 to a Soft 6 so a number of withdrawals and the early betting markets not perhaps the guide they can be. Another chewy low-grade midweek card when we remember there are many more slow horses than fast ones. I’ve found three for you to consider or avoid. 2.45: BORN TO BE ROYAL 5.05: ASTARTE 5.46: KINTARO BORN TO BE ROYAL could be the best horse on the card if he can handle the ground. I agonized over the sixth as I came to the conclusion none of them could win. Hopefully KINTARO can build on a reasonable debut - he’s now $16 so into each way territory for the sharks.  

I used to manage some Georgie Pie restaurants many years ago and price matters . If you drop prices more people will come , so at the end of the day you make more profit with turnover . People don't want to waste money on high entry fees when they can watch the races for free at home or the TAB

You’ve obviously never been to a Plumpton card in January with the sleet falling horizontally and the mud flying !! Discounts for older race goers in Britain as well but it varies. At Lingfield it’s £5 off if you are over 60 but at Plumpton it’s £7 off but you have to be 65. Back to catering and yes we have our food wagons with the burger and chips or the noodles (NEVER eat noodles outdoors wearing a white shirt on a windy day) but you can also get soup and at the pre-Christmas meeting at Lingfield the late Barry Dennis would hand out free Christmas puddings to anyone having a bet - he’d ask for the pudding back if you had the temerity to take money off him.

Rooke did nothing wrong, just got held up on the inside with nowhere to go. Was surprised he got off it,  as was John Bell….🙄

All the best Lisa for your recovery. We hope to see you in New Year's Honours List for all you have done for Women in Racing. Rest up, catch up on all those leisurely sit down activities you can do, read books you never had a chance to and allow time out for knitting of both types!

Equally important at this time of the year is to look out for and nip Bloodsucking Ticks in the bud as these to can spread amongst animals. They can look like a skin tag / wart like but are nasty parasites.

The members elected John Velazquez and Mike Smith as Co-chairmen, Javier Castellano, Julien Leparoux and James Flores as Co-vice chairmen, Tyler Gaffalione as Secretary and Julien Leparoux as Treasurer. View the full article

One of the last horses in which the late Prince Khalid bin Abdullah chose the mating, Laurel River was honored Jan. 21 as the co-winner of the Longines World's Best Racehorse for 2024.View the full article

Winston's Gold Card?

See our other post on this - utilise that information including that able to be sourced that the likes of Aaron Cross and Problem Gambling have instigated and counter claim it. Equally important is the role Women have undertaken in this sector since WW2 and their rights in Society.   By the way, dogs run around in circles quite freely without getting injured, they know instinctively not to overdo it to get dizzy to,  so why the push for Straight Tracks ? Dogs are also encouraged as part of Behaviour training to walk in a circle and get praised upon completion.   What next, Dog Shows banned because they do tricks and hurdles? Sheep shows been banned because of there natural abilities? These activists need to be held to account like they have been doing in the UK and Australia, look it up and follow it up including to Politicians who need a wake up call about legislation. We all have a right to inclusion in society or it's a breach of Magna Carta.  

Us elderly folk do get in half price at Ellerslie, so just $22.50 on the day, or $30 this weekend,

Absolutely, Boards in general have a vast number of obligations under a vast range of Legislation. Sadly many of those on Boards across the wider Boards of Businesses and Governance everywhere have failed cohesion in society.