2018 Breeders’ Cup
Breeders’ Cup – Ignition
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hughes – Code of Honor to Scratch from Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
Bloodhorse – Litfin at Large: Breeders’ Cup Favs Get Tough Draws
Horse Race Insider – Jicha – Racing has many great days but Breeders’ Cup stands alone
Horse Racing Nation – Lintner – Roaring Lion ‘leading’ Breeders’ Cup contender, jockey says
Bloodhorse – Haskin – Analysis of the Breeders’ Cup Classic
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – How the shadow of Justify looms large over the BC Classic
TwinSpires Blog – 2018 Breeders’ Cup News & Notes
Los Angeles Times – Plaschke – Dodgers’ front office remains tone deaf on what went wrong
Phil will tell the head honchos at the Dodgers what went wrong.
They got beat by a Sale Price team.
Phil’s gonna use that one til the edges are even.
Horse Racing Nation – Tamulonis – Weekend Watch: Breeders’ Cup Friday race analysis
Paulick Report – Breeders’ Cup Euro Report: O’Brien Caravan Hits The Track At Churchill Downs
“Bohemian Rhapsody” doesn’t try to solve that mystery, either. Already so brisk, sanitized and even a little fictionalized, the movie boils the singer’s ethnic and religious identities down to just a few asides in a single, speedy scene. And even then, the discussion is silenced by a loud birthday ballad Mercury sings while staring at himself in a mirror.
It’s not that Farrokh Bulsara was “not good enough,” as his father asks in the movie. But maybe, like many people who grow up in different places than their parents did, the family name simply didn’t feel like his own.
Instead, he redirected the focus to Freddie Mercury: the charismatic performer, the vocal acrobat, the trailblazer who blended genres and penned the behemoth hit song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” This is not only the persona he projected to the world, but also the person, after years of hopping continents and hiding his sexuality, he discovered in himself.
And when he announces his new name in the film, he declares with an immovable confidence: “No looking back.”
TwinSpires Blog – Shapiro – How to bet the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile/Classic Daily Double
Horse Racing Nation – Davidowitz – Across the Board: Breeders’ Cup Friday contenders, longshots
TwinSpires Blog – Hanson – Thoughts on Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Pick 5 and an undercard Spot Play
TDN – DiDonato – Breeders’ Cup Friday Longshots to Look At
NY Times – What Do N.F.L. Zebras Chat About With Lions and Giants and Bears?
Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Breeders Cup T – 1
TDN – DiDonato – Q&A: Stone Ready for First Breeders’ Cup
Phil has a question:
Is Halloween candy not the true breakfast of Champions.
National Post – Scott Stinson: It seems the NHL is totally cool with sports gambling now
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hughes – St. Lewis Enjoying Time in the Spotlight
Paulick Report – Breeders’ Cup News Minute Presented By Adequan: ‘My Dream Came True’
Horse Race Insider – Future Stars Friday: HRI Staff Makes Its Own Parlay
Bloodhorse – Haskin – Analysis of Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Races
TDN – DiDonato – Stephens, Bloch and Company Savoring ‘Champagne’ Ride
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Godfrey – Which Euros have the best chances at Churchill Downs?
TDN – Martini – From Churchill to Keeneland, Busy Weekend for Pokoik
Bloodhorse – Angst – Youth Movement for Breeders’ Cup Friday
TDN – Sherack – Wednesday’s Trackside Breeders’ Cup Report
TDN – Carasso – Breeders’ Cup Memories–2001 Breeders’ Cup Classic
TDN – Carasso – South American-Breds Out in Force for Breeders’ Cup
Paulick Report – Classic Notes: Catholic Boy ‘Like A Keg Of Dynamite Waiting To Go Off’
Breeders Cup T – 2
2018 Breeders’ Cup Fields
Bloodhorse – Martin – Team Valor Hopes The Black Album Becomes a Hit
FiveThirtyEight – Sawchik – The Red Sox Bucked Convention To Build A Champion
Phil Has a question:
Would you call the 2018 Boston Red Sox a Sale Price team.
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” the movie about Queen, lasts more than two hours, not a very long time by modern feature standards, even though it feels interminable. A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible, with the exception of the prosthetic teeth worn by the lead actor, Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, Queen’s lead singer. Those choppers may give you nightmares. And some of you who venture into the theater will surely be inspired to exclaim “Mama mia, let me go!”
New York Times – Scott – ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Review: Another One Bites the Dust
New York Times – Farewell, FilmStruck: A Bittersweet Guide to the Movies to Catch Before It’s Gone
The Bitter Southerner – Uszerowicz – A Haunting Monument to Love. Or Aliens. Or Limestone
Bloodhorse – Hall – In Return to Churchill, a Return to One-Turn Dirt Mile
Bloodhorse – Haskin – Analysis of Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Races
Bloodhorse – NBC’s Rice Sizes up This Year’s Breeders Cup
Paulick Report -Breeders’ Cup News Minute Presented By Adequan: Turf War?
TDN – Sherack – Tuesday’s Trackside Breeders’ Cup Report
Horse Race Insider – O’Meara – PEB Illustrated: Final Chapter–Never Forgotten, Never Will
Breeders Cup T – 3
Timothy Leary
NY Times – Kepner – David Price Gets His Championship
TDN – Sherack – Monday’s Trackside Breeders’ Cup Report
Bloodhorse – Breeders’ Cup Notes, Oct. 29
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hghes – All Eyes on Enable for Breeders’ Cup Turf
The Bitter Southerner – Key – Mom Joke
TDN – DiDonato – Accelerate All the Way Outside as BC Fields Take Shape
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hughes – Accelerate Aims to Provide Classic Answer in 2018
Bloodhorse – Crosby – Plenty of Female Intrigue in Breeders’ Cup Mile
Bloodhorse – Daugherty – Undefeated Catalina Cruiser Rolls Into Dirt Mile
Horse Race Insider – O’Meara – PEB Illustrated: Chapter 4–The Pen Is Mightier
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Sistercharlie Heads Brown Arsenal in F&M Turf
Horse Racing Nation – Across the Board: Breeders’ Cup Friday contenders, longshots
Breeders Cup T – 4
Mark Twain
LA Times – Hernandez – There was a feeling of finality to Clayton Kershaw’s Game 5 start
LA Times – Plaschke – October has been the Dodgers’ cruelest month
NY Times – World Series: Red Sox, Unhittable and Unstoppable, Win It All, Beating Dodgers
In 2018 the Sale Price was right.
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – Breeders’ Cup XXXV, a Churchill Primer
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Sunday, Oct. 28
The Globe And Mail – Pruden – After the Fire
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hughes – Catholic Boy, Imperial Hint Look the Part in BC Works
Paulick Report – Breeders’ Cup News Minute Presented By Adequan: Keeping Good Company
Edmonton Journal – Faulder – Last call: Matt Jukich says goodbye to iconic Northlands Racetrack
Garden and Gun – Everett – The Southern Cookbook Canon
Bloodhorse – Haskin – Breeders’ Cup: Always Room For Improvement
The Bitter Southerner – Williams – Why I Hate “Free Bird”
Bloodhorse – Wincze_Hughes – Norm Casse to Have First BC Starter in Belle Laura
TDN – Ross – Deja Vu for Simon Callaghan in Bid for First Breeders’ Cup Win
Bloodhorse – Balan – X Y Jet Out of Breeders’ Cup Sprint
Bloodhorse – Balan – Catapult Rounds Out Sadler’s Breeders’ Cup Workers
TDN – Baffert Begins Churchill Invasion Early as POTN Filly Takes Rags to Riches
TDN – McGrath – Denali: Keeping the Turf ‘Green’
Breeders’ Cup Day T – 5
Jean de La Fontaine
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Riley – Winx Becomes First Horse to Win Four Cox Plate Editions
Garden and Gun – Nickens – How Fishing Captains are Saving the Everglades
CTV News – CP – Weber – Refuge areas crucial to saving bird species as climate changes: study
The Globe and Mail – Prairie lakes drying up
Phil has a question:
Will the province of Alberta and city of Edmonton step up and commit the resources to rehabilitate the wetlands around Edmonton that have been drained for agriculture and are suffering from a prolonged drought.
Will the idiot Don Iveson realize that funds he’s wasting building idiotic bike lanes that piss off both the cyclist and car drivers could be used to move storm water from Edmonton to these wetlands creating a legacy and freeing up hundreds of acres of land for development thereby increasing density and reducing urban sprawl.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
Los Angeles Times – Hernandez – Dave Roberts’ pitching change flops for Dodgers in Game 4
NY Times – Wagner – World Series: Red Sox Rebound From Marathon Loss to Defeat Dodgers in Game 4
New York Times – Mallozzi – They Saw a Sign and Didn’t Shake It Off
Around the same time, Pilcher won a free season to the Langfuhr stallion Imperialism, who was standing at nearby Get Away Farm. Imperialism was a long-winded, one-paced sort of runner who finished third in the GI Kentucky Derby in 2004. But if his accomplishments weren’t all that flashy, he had one thing Pilcher was looking for as a cross for his new acquisition: the genes of his grandsire Danzig.
“I had always tried to talk Mr. Mamone into breeding her to a Danzig-line horse,” said Pilcher. “Now, this sounds crazy, and don’t ask me why, but every time I would look at that mare, I would think, ‘She needs some Danzig.’”
He found it in Imperialism, and the result was a beautifully shaped colt later named Imperial Hint. Beautifully shaped…but small.
As Pilcher tells it, people would stop by the farm and comment on the handsome colt before shrugging their shoulders and adding, “But he’s a little guy.”
“That’s been his thing his whole life,” said Pilcher. “He was the little guy. When he was a baby, he’d get in the middle of the pack and fight with the rest of them just like it didn’t bother him, his size. He don’t know he’s small. He thinks he’s one of the guys.”
Imperial Hint showed some early promise as a 2-year-old, enough that Pilcher initially planned to put him into training himself, but not so much that he didn’t entertain offers. Some people came and looked. They liked the colt. Too small, ultimately, was the verdict.
Even Mamone, down one day in search of young runners with his trainer, Luis Carvajal, Jr., initially wasn’t convinced, according to Pilcher. Carvajal, on the other hand, liked what he saw when Imperial Hint breezed past.
TDN – Marquardt – Small Time Goes Big
TDN – Bill Pilcher – Breeder of Imperial Hint.
Horse Race Insider – Jicha – Best horse’ at BC might not be best bet
Paulick Report – Dual Arc Heroine Enable Confirmed For Breeders’ Cup Turf
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Baxter – Enable Gets Green Light for Breeders’ Cup Turf
Southern Living – 30 Vintage Cakes from the South That Deserve a Comeback
Phil has a question:
Wouldn’t Jack and Coke make a better cake that Coca-Cola alone.
Wouldn’t RC Cola make a better cake than Coca-Cola.
Ludwig Erhard
Bloodhorse – Haskin – East vs. West Showdown Looming in BC Classic
Bloodhorse – Haskin – BC Classic: To Prep or Not to Prep
Horse Race Insider – Jicha – BC menu offers big payoffs, demands big bankrolls
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – Make Lesser Races, and Their Coverage, Super
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TSN – Blue Jays name Montoyo as new manager
The Bitter Southerner – Hayes – He Saw Our Darkness
Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
A record $10,233,665.60 was paid out to horsemen in purses and Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund monies, up from the then-record $8,625,396 last year.
Bloodhorse – Another Record Handle Mark for Kentucky Downs
Phil has a question:
Why could we not bet Kentucky Downs at Northlands Park
Do you think it will be fair to compare Century’s performance to Northlands Park when Northlands Park set the bar so low.
With the exception of the boutique meet currently running at Kentucky Downs, NYRA purses, thanks in part to the Aqueduct gaming facility, are the highest in the country for both their overnight and stakes programs.
TDN – Bill Finley – The Week in Review: Breeders’ Cup Passes on N.Y. Again. Why?
Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.
W.C. Fields
Bloodhorse – Angst – KY Court Ruling Big Win for Historical Racing
Paulick Report – Paulick – Kentucky Judge Rules Historical Racing Is Legal Pari-Mutuel Wagering
Phil has a question:
Who benefits from this decision – the Kentucky horsemen or CDI’s shareholders.
Does the Kentucky government have the same kind of balls as the New York government and will they earmark a certain portion of the funds for the horse race industry.
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Chinese Proverb
Now you may ask yourself why is Phil quoting from and linking to articles that are over 45 days old.
Now you can tell yourself that Phil will be off on some tangent or cosign sooner than later.
Now you should ask yourself if Churchill Downs deserves to be hosting the 2018 Breeders’ Cup.
Now you should ask yourself if the Breeders’ Cup is like the NHL who sends undeserving teams like the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers to China and Europe respectively when the Breeders’ Cup rewards CDI, the cheapest f***ing skinflints when it comes to purses, while shunning Belmont, where NYRA has their purse level second only to the boutique meet at Kentucky Downs.
If CDI had its way they would run the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May and then tiddly wink tournaments the rest of the year as long as they had the slots and historic racing machines.
A $200,000,000.00 purse for the Kentucky Derby one of the marquee races in North America is embarrassing for the sport of thoroughbred racing. Especially when the handle for Kentucky Derby Day regularly tops $200,000.00 and attendance tops 150,000.
TDN – Bill Finley – Op/Ed: In Belinda Vs. Frank, I’m Rooting for Horse Racing
The Baltimore Sun -Document: Stronach Lawsuit
TDN – Bill Finley and Thornton – Stronach Family Rift Revealed in Bombshell Lawsuit
Horse Race Insider – Jicha – TSG lawsuit a family feud, little threat to racing
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TDN – 2019 Fees Released for Adena Springs
TDN – Reilly – Team Valor’s new French recruit The Black Album aims for Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf
TDN – Bill Finley – Business Before Sentiment, Hertrich to Sell Catholic Boy’s Dam
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Garden and Gun – Hutchinson – Castle & Key Distillery’s Bluegrass Revival
Bloodhorse – Hangin With Haskin – Is Larry Doing What’s Best?
The Bitter Southerner – Amos – Some Battles Never End
Bloodhorse – Hangin with Haskin – Beware of the Classic Prep Losers
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
Paulick Report – West Coast Classic Contenders: ‘Super-Duper’ Work For Accelerate, Baffert Duo Sharp
TDN – McGrath – How the Breeders’ Cup Was Born–and How to Heed New Challenges
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Simon Bazalgette: let’s work together to engage fans worldwide
TDN – Bill Finley – Sadler Not Fazed by His Breeders’ Cup Record
Bloodhorse – Heart to Heart Will Not Race in 2018 Breeders’ Cup
TDN – Breeders’ Cup’s A Taste of the World Showcases Chefs
Windsor Star – Chen – Windsor pizza maker wins Canadian Pizza Summit title
TDN – Diversify to Skip Breeders’ Cup
Bloodhorse – Crosby – Blue-Collar Two Dot Slew Gives Arnold BC Contender
Bloodhorse Angst – Correas, Blue Prize Take Momentum Into Breeders’ Cup
New Yorker – Gopnik – The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hughes – Monomoy Girl Focused in Churchill Downs Work
TDN – Bianca – Sippican Harbor a ‘Bomb-Proof’ BC Contender for Contessa
The winner hails from the family of two-time Canadian Horse of the Year and Eclipse winner Chief Bearhart (Chief’s Crown) and MGISW Private Zone (Macho Uno). His dam Dusty Rose is also responsible for a yearling gelding by Archarcharch and was bred back to Jump Start earlier this term.
TDN – TDN RISING STARS – Fortin Hill
Southern Living – Snierson – Here’s When All 36 New Hallmark Christmas Movies Will Debut
Phil’s giving you fair warning so you can plan on what evenings you should be washing your hair or cleaning the oven.
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
TDN – Gunnevera Works in Company for Classic
Garden and Gun – Must-Have New Southern Cookbooks
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Saturday, Oct. 27
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Friday, Oct. 26
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Thursday, Oct. 25
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Tuesday, Oct. 23
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Catholic Boy, Brown Brigade, Baffert Duo Work
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Saturday, Oct. 20
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Bulletin: Friday, Oct. 19
Across The Board With Andy Serling: Christophe Clement
Bloodhorse – Haskin – Classical Grass
Bloodhorse – Angst – Gambling Issues Could Impact Racing in Arkansas, Idaho
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Future of Florida Gaming Rests on Amendment 3
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Bloodhorse – Balan – Accelerate Breezes in the Dark for BC Classic
Bloodhorse – Hskin – A Lot at Stake For Accelerate
Bloodhorse – Breeders’ Cup Entertainment Schedule Announced
Phil M Stockmen
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CANADIAN RACING ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS RELEASE STATE OF RACING REPORT
For the 3% of race industry participants that still care and the rest that are still catching the wave the surf is not going to be up for the 2019 racing season.
ASHA BOARD minutes July 28/2018 item #3 indicate NO PURSE increases in 2019.
NORTHLANDS quietly released, Sept 1 its 2017 disaster results, a LOSS of $8.15 million compared to $4.18 million in 2016, I guess the cooked books finally got the turkey but they were nonprofit! Ex president ANDERSON stated that they could survive without the Oilers, coliseum revenue $5.7 million/ 17 versus $22.5 million/16 a slight miscalculation. Ex president REID stated that horse racing was not profitable revenue $44.616/hra grant $7.137($51.753) versus expenses of $48.371 results in racing profit of $3.382 million even with the cook books but this turkey escaped down the road to CENTURY MILE.(3% computer literate go to NP/about screen)
NORTHLANDS PARK thoroughbred handle averaged 249k/17 versus 254k/16 , but the loyal on track fans resulted in a 13% on track increase to about 75K, when you consider that Tenile gift wrapped 25% of their HPI handle Jan 1 to CENTURY, that their efforts should be acknowledged.
FENSKE gets off the snooze button by fining the race office at Century $100 (coffee fund) for not having papers on file , did they do that ruling NP/ #36 red illegal horse stretched race day??
HOT RUMOURS for the cold fall and winter
NORM/BILL working on a 50k/50k fee split for lobbyist Tenile to engage UCP party.
ALBERTA government states that 5 to 10% drop in booze sales upcoming due to cannabis sales, what effect on slot/horse racing revenue, 13% drop per DUMONT MARKETING study.
ALLEN/VEGAS racetrack purchase of NP assets at 2 cents on $, goes up in smoke due to presence of wood boring beetles citrus (atop;ophora chinensis)/asian (anolophara glabripennis) and we all thought it was bored race horses chewing on the barn wood all these years!!
RYNEVELD / CENTURY states that Century Mile will be racetrack first and slot parlour second, lets see what race owners/workers/trainers/ horse population can survive to the 2020 season?