NY Times – Pareles – Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul,’ Dies at 76
NY Times – Dyson – The Church of Aretha Franklin
Esquire – Adebowale – Aretha Franklin’s Only Film Role Was Legendary
Billboard – Aretha Franklin: Life in Photos
Sometimes, what you’re looking for is already there.
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
NY Times – Morris – Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It?
As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.
Aretha Franklin
NY Times – Henderson – Aretha Franklin on Heaven and Earth
As long as it’s good music. I love all music. It’s got to be constructed properly.
Aretha Franklin
NY Times – Trebay – Aretha Franklin Reigned as Queen, in Voice and in Image
Yes, I’ve always been fashion conscious.
Aretha Franklin
Esquire – Kirkland – Aretha Franklin’s Most Unforgettable Vocal Performances
Aretha Franklin’s grace was amazing.
ODE TO A BULLRING
Willow and waley and woe and sorrow, the thoroughbreds are leaving Northlands tomorrow.
Chestnut and bay and black and gray, will no longer cavort and snort and neigh.
The t-breds are leaving, exit the horses, exit the “hot tips” from all kinds of sources.
Exit the jockeys, the grooms and the trainers, exit the longshots and the sure thing “no-brainers”.
Exit the valets, the servers and tellers, exit the bartenders and program sellers.
The sport and its fans are being told “take a hike”, no more ask the question “who do you like?”
Exit the sprinters and those that go longer, exit the plodders and those that run stronger.
Exit the theories, the hunches, the reasons, Exit racing and all of its seasons.
Exit the stakes horses or those you can claim, to the casual fan they all look the same.
A variety of wagers allows for a choice, if that choice be astute it be cause to rejoice.
Win, place or show, exactor, pick four. Pick the right numbers, get a nice score.
Each punter an expert with their own base of knowledge, from the school of hard knocks to equestrian college.
One likes a chestnut with four flashy socks, one likes the colours that adorn all the jocks.
One likes the horse name, one likes the post, if the pick is successful they all like the boast.
Whatever the formula the object is winnin, on a good fortune day you’re pickin and grinnin.
Good-bye to the characters and all of the stories, good-bye to the bad days or the good day glories.
Good-bye to the intrigue of backstretch and barns, good-bye to the hours of whiskey fueled yarns.
Why is it ending and who is to blame? Surely you all have some culprits to name.
Here’s to the thoroughbreds and time well spent, Even those days when you’re chasing the rent.
So have one last toast to memories and friends, this is the way a great era ends.
Good-bye to the races and all of the steeds, good-bye to all of their noble deeds.
Good-bye to all the familiar faces, so end the Northlands thoroughbred races.
Words and music by Noah Furlong with inspiration from Ogden Nash
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her face
National Post – Christie Blatchford: Gender pronouns are ruining the best thing about hockey
The Bitter Southerner – Greenwald – Ode to a Teacher: Remembering the Poet C.D. Wright
Bloodhorse – Breeders’ Cup Host Sites Announced Through 2021
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – New York Racing: Not Enough of One, Too Much of the Other
Esquire – MIller – Does Donald Trump Know Who Aretha Franklin Was?
If your wandering why this piece isn’t included above the Ennead knows that Phil will not desecrate the memory of the Queen of Soul with any dribble that the Buffoon with the bouffant rug tweets.
Paulick Report – Voss – Round Table: British Jockey Club Focusing On Fans First, Wagers Next
Bloodhorse – Angst – Jockey Club Outlines Growth Strategies at Round Table
There’s a lesson there if you’re willing to take it.
Phil has a question:
Will the new Chair and CEO of Horse Racing Alberta take the lesson.
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – Jockey Club Needs Action on Good Ideas
Esquire – 80 Books Every Person Should Read
The Bitter Southerner – Meinhardt – My Old Friend Natty Light
TDN – Bill Finley – Thanks to Catholic Boy, Thomas No Longer Racing’s Best Kept Secret
If I Should Fall From Grace with God
Sometimes, what you’re looking for is already there.
Aretha Franklin
Yahoo Finance – Roberts – LeBron James is building a new blueprint for athletes in business
Phil has a question:
Did Roberts do any research for this article.
Has Roberts ever heard of Tim Horton, Stan Mikita, George Foreman, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter, Eddie Shack or Roberto Clemente.
The Borgen Project – Diamond – Roberto Clemente: Sports’ Most Charitable Legend
American Classic Pedigrees – Hunter – Roberto
ESPN – Crasnick – The education of Derek Jeter, baseball CEO
There’s a lesson there if you’re willing to take it.
Phil has a question:
Will the new Chair and CEO of Horse Racing Alberta take the lesson.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley
TDN – Kanes – Brown Looks Forward After Banner Day
TDN – Berry and McGrath – Galileo and Pharoah in Transatlantic Trade
Brisnet – Genaro – Eskimo Kisses freezes out Alabama foes to earn first stakes victory
Bloodhorse – Crosby – Eskimo Kisses Upsets Alabama Stakes
TDN – Eskimo Kisses Runs Away with Alabama
TDN – McGrath – The Meteoric Rise of Into Mischief
Paulick Report – Steffanus – Cooling Out On The Track: Science Says You May Be Doing It Wrong
TDN – Thornton – Monmouth Owes $30M to Darby Development
TDN – Emma Berry – The Weekly Wrap: Golden Girls
The Ennead understands.
Bloodhorse – Balan – Fatale Bere Edges Ollie’s Candy in Del Mar Oaks
TDN – Fatale Bere Just Gets Up in Del Mar Oaks
Brisnet – Reilly – Remembering Breeders’ Cup Mile diva Miesque
Paulick Report – Voss – Sagamore Farm Looks Toward The Future While Honoring The Past
There’s a lesson there if you’re willing to take it.
Phil has a question:
Will the new Chair and CEO of Horse Racing Alberta take the lesson.
The Bitter Southerner – Elliot – Two Kings and a Texan
Brisnet – Reilly – Fever knocks Hofburg out of Travers
TDN – Good Magic Leads Travers Workers
Bloodhorse – Mendelssohn, Seahenge Set for Travers Stakes
Bloodhorse – Wonder Gadot, Good Magic Post Final Travers Works
Paulick Report – Catholic Boy ‘Makes Life Easy’ For Trainer Thomas
Paulick Report – Travers Works: Good Magic ‘Couldn’t Have Done Any Better,’ Wonder Gadot ‘Sharp’
Bloodhorse – Haskin – Summers Made Biscuits From Scratch
Phil has a question:
Where does Summers buy his scratch.
Why do all the supposed old fashioned southern biscuit recipes tell you to chill or freeze the butter when there were no refrigerators when the old fashioned biscuits were being made.
TDN – Cairns – The Social Angle: Alix Choppin
NY Times – Quammen – The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life
Phil’s Drink and a Flick
TDN – Thornton – Investigation Brings No Clarity to Assiniboia Race
Brisnet – Reilly – Van Dyke Catapults to record-tying seven wins on Del Mar card
Bloodhorse – Balan – Catapult Wins Del Mar Mile on Van Dyke’s Big Day
Phil like the jury has a question:
Won’t the most oft asked question from the jury be: what’s for lunch.
Won’t the most second most oft asked question from the jury be: what do these stacks and stacks of papers mean.
The New Yorker – Gladwell – Open Secrets
Mr. Hardy, a Philadelphia-based white-collar defence lawyer at Ballard Spahr, suggested a more basic reason for Mr. Mueller bringing charges against Mr. Manafort: As an agent of the government, he likely feels an obligation to prosecute any alleged wrongdoing he finds.
The Globe and Mail – Reuters – Roberts – Morrow – Four things we learned from the Manafort trial
T. S. Eliot
NY Times – Chocolate-Making Is Secretive. This Chocolatier Isn’t.
Phil has a question:
What’s wrong with a good old fashioned:
Bloodhorse – Daugherty – Skeptic Puts Doubts to Rest with Monmouth Oaks Win
Esquire – Kirkland – Why You Need to Put Peanuts In Your Next Coke
Garden and Gun – Portman – The Tallulah: Coke, Peanuts, and Whiskey
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask ‘Where have I gone wrong’, then a voice says to me ‘This is going to take more than one night’.
Charlie Brown
Paulick Report – Motion Off The Duck At The Spa, Points Spring Quality To Sword Dancer
NY Times – Collins and Metz – Alexa vs. Siri vs. Google: Which Can Carry on a Conversation Best?
Phil has a question:
If you instructed Alexa to call Siri and ask Siri to call Alexa and then instructed Siri to call Alexa and ask Alexa to call Siri would you create an infinite loop that would destroy the internet.
Bloodhorse – Good As It Gets – By Evan Hammonds
Prospects for the 2018 Canadian Derby field
Riversedge Racing Stables’ Weekend Wizard followed up his facile win in the Chris Loseth Stakes at Hasting Racecourse with a second in the Muckleshoot Derby at Emerald Downs.
Regal Max, second to Peter Redekop B.C. Ltd.’s Apalachee Bay in the 2018 Count Lathum at Northlands Park headed north for a track record performance in the Alberta Derby at Grande Prairie. Regal Max has a few more shekels in his purse pocket thanks to Ken Drysdale, Dennis Dale, Al Side and Ed Welsh.
Phil’s a tad partial to Regal Max as he was bred in Alberta by Stone Ranches and purchased from the 2016 CTHS Alberta sale. He’s also got the same last name as Miracle Max the wizard who made the pill for Phil.
The British Columbia Cup Sir Winston Churchill Derby Trial: Day Raider
- DAY RAIDER – PATTI TUBBS PHOTO
Coming into the Sir Winston Churchill Derby Trial, the one certain thing about Day Raider ($18.90) was that he had never stopped coming forward in any of his races. He continued that practice in the Derby Trial with a come from behind effort that saw him moving past longshot El Noble late in the stretch to clear that one by a long length at the wire. El Noble had worn down the pacesetter Apalachee Bay only to see Day Raider deny him the win with a strong late surge. Apalachee Bay held on to third. Final time for the mile-and-a-sixteenth was 1:44.80. A well-timed ride by Antonio Reyes gave him his fifth win on the card.
Day Raider is a relentless closer who has improved by leaps and bounds in his three starts this season after closing out his two-year-old campaign with a second in the Ascot Graduation as a maiden. The Kentucky bred gelded son of New Year’s Day is owned by Canyon Farms and trained by Craig MacPherson. He should take to either the mile-and-three-eighths offered by the Canadian Derby at Northlands or the mile-and-an-eighth here in the BC Derby. Both might be a bit much as they are two weeks apart.
Apalachee Bay was squeezed at the start of the British Columbia Cup Sir Winston Churchill Derby Trial, then used hard early to get to the lead and faded to third.
Robertino Diodoro finished 1st, 2nd and 4th in the Manitoba Derby at Assiniboia Downs on Louis Riel Day and rumour has it that Robertino’s best Canadian Derby hope will be training up to the race after the ultimate equipment change.
From the Insider
MANITOBA DERBY MUSINGS
So tough, yet so easy
Diodoro’s main jockey mows ’em down
Cutting the traditional Derby winner’s cake are (from left) owners Clayton Wiest, Tim Rollingson, Norman Tremblay, jockey Rico Walcott, Derby Belle Francine Fournier, owner Rick Wiest and trainer Robertino Diodoro
After the fact, the winner of the 70th Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Derby seems so obvious. Trainer Robertino Diodoro puts his favourite jockey Rico Walcott on Sky Promise—one of three horses Diodoro sent—and his main man mows down the competition to win the Derby going away. Duh!
Derby winner Sky Promise kicks well clear of the field after trailing early So why was handicapping this Derby so tough for veteran handicappers, some who needed even six of the eight horses in the field to feel comfortable with their pick-4 ticket? The fact is, even Diodoro was unsure which of his three horses would perform best—and he was trying to figure out who to send to the Canadian Derby at Northlands Park in Edmonton two weeks from this Saturday.
He told The Insider that people were coming to him asking which of his three horses would win: “C’mon, you can tell me,” they pleaded. In truth, he didn’t know, he told them.
Team Diodoro even considered changing the strategy in the Derby for Sky Promise because the horse’s preferred style is to come from the clouds–and previous races on the Derby card were won by horses on the lead. “But, in the end, we decided to go with our original strategy,” he said. Good call. Walcott pulled Sky Promise to the back of the pack in the 1 1/8-mile race and circled the field heading into the final turn to catch another Diodoro horse, United Patriot, and pulled away to win by 7 ½ lengths ($7.20).
So will we see just Sky Promise in the Canadian Derby (looks very powerful) or will Diodoro also send United Patriot to keep the pace honest? We’ll see.
Watch the Derby here.
89th Running Of
The Canadian Derby(Grade III)
$200,000 Guaranteed
TO BE RUN SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2018
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DAY RAIDER b.g.3 Canyon Farms Craig MacPherson
FORT MAC dk b/.g.3 Kim Peacock and Lance Giesbrecht Dale Greenwood
GEM ALTA dk b/.g.3 Riversedge Racing Stables Ltd. Tim Rycroft
HYNDFORD ch.c.3 Wiest, Cory, Wiest, Rick, Wiest, Clayton, R 6 Stable and Tremblay, Norman Robertino Diodoro
KIRWAN’S MOUNTAIN b.g.3 J & G Murphy Holdings Ltd. Robert C. Kingston
PICKFORD b.c.3 Team Valor International and Highfield Investment Group, Inc. Greg Tracy
RED RIVER BEAR ch.g.3 Bear Stables Ltd. and Riversedge Racing Stables Ltd. Craig Smith
REGAL MAX b.g.3 Almac Racing Stable and Kerredge Farm Rick Hedge
SHIMSHINE ch.g.3 White Pine Ranch Elige Bourne
SKY PROMISE b.c.3 Wiest, Rick, Wiest, Clayton, R 6 Stable and Tremblay, Norman Robertino Diodoro
STRIPLING WARRIOR dk b/.g.3 R 6 Stable Greg Tracy
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CLOSED WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018 WITH 11 NOMINATIONS*
LA Times – Cherwa – Racing! Accelerate dominant in Pacific Classic
Bloodhorse – Balan – Accelerate Dominates Pacific Classic by Record Margin
ESPN – AP – Accelerate runs away with $1M Pacific Classic at Del Mar
TDN – All Accelerate in Pacific Classic
Bloodhorse – Angst – Rushing Fall Returns to Winning Ways in Lake Placid
TDN – Rushing Fall Impresses in Lake Placid
Bloodhorse – Angst – Neepawa Completes a Casse Canadian Triple Crown
TDN – Baffert Unleashes Another Rising Star at Del Mar
TDN – Noble Mission Colt Sharp in Saratoga Debut
TDN – Unique Bella Injured, Retired
Phil M Stockmen
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The predicted crowd at final HBPA AGM NORTHLANDS PARK is 38 as apathy hits a all-time low!
5 questions for HBPA AGM discussion!
1. What are the CUTS/REVENUE for next years racing season.(60 race dates)?
2. HBPA transferred $750K in 2018 to sustain purses/dates, what reserve is left for 2019.
3. ASHA board minutes from April/18 show that they were aware of century mile not opening in September/18 when did the HBPA become aware of this construction/revenue setback.
4.CENUTRY MILE GM RYNEVELD states that it will be a racetrack first and slot parlour second, is this in writing and what guarantees do the horsemen have in regards to problems/requests?
5.PROJECTED slot revenue at the MILE is estimated at $45 million/yr versus NP $23 million, when will the industry start to see some purse/date increases (2020)???