Bethany Taylor spoke of the thrill of her first Derby experience and provided insight into the youngster that has taken the small Louisiana-based stable to great heights as part of a diary written with Tom Pedulla for America's Best Racing:View the full article
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will celebrate the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, May 17 with a pair of special events at the Museum.View the full article
The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland, was She Feels Pretty's only experience running the Modesty's 1 1/8-mile distance. But it was her most dominant win as she pulled away for a six-length conquest. View the full article
Voters in the NTRA top 3-year-old poll agree Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Journalism should be the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Derby (G1) as the son of Curlin tops the final edition of that poll ahead of the year's opening classic.View the full article
Not where I am normally as Mrs Stodge told me I needed a holiday so will miss Punchestown, Newmarket and Chester.
Craven winner FIELD OF GOLD is 7/4 favourite for Saturday’s 2000 Guineas over the mile. 17 have been entered.
The 1000 Guineas Is on Sunday.
Two good fields again on Friday at Alex Park . The Pacers 2200m stand so will be interesting who steps . The trot also a good field with Oscar and MM mind you would be surprised if MM won but who knows 😀
Can't wait for Matt to visit the Cambridge and Matamata tracks at 4am in the morning and get a reality check. Would love him to attend a winter mid week Industry day and watch winners of multiple races going around for $17,000. Maybe he could explain to owners and trainers that if you don't run top three you are considerably out of pocket.
And of course they changed builders part way through as well. Time is money, and they sure wasted plenty.
I saw a video the other day of a multi-storey building in Bangkok collapsing during a very minor earthquake; the only building to collapse. The reason? Steel from China that was described as not really being steel at all. If there was a problem in Greenland, at least it was discovered early rather than later.
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