Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Still Crazy After all These Years
NY Times – Nadelson – A Beloved Restaurant Where Fried Chicken Achieves Its Highest For
Southern Living – Markus and Cole – The South’s Best Fried Chicken
Garden and Gun – Portman – Garden & Gun’s Fried Chicken Bucket List
Salute to the Black Jockeys of the Kentucky Derby
That, in turn, can loose a whole bale of details, such as that the 1882 Kentucky Derby happened on the third Tuesday of May rather than the first Saturday; that the starter used a kettle drum; that one ham in the refreshment stand yielded 2,000 sandwiches, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal; and that one of the 14 horses wound up identified as “the Pat Malloy colt.” It also does the important work of reminding that the Derby used to specialize in African American jockeys before the sport heinously and inanely drove them away.
One such name: Babe Hurd.
“Hurd’s birth name may be lost to history, but his equestrian skills survive,” reads the Kentucky African American Encyclopedia, edited by Gerald L. Smith, Karen Cotton McDaniel and John A. Hardin. On May 16, 1882, Hurd, then 15, after first racing at 13 for a former Maryland governor, Oden Bowie, became one of 11 African American jockeys to win 15 Kentucky Derbies between 1875 and 1902.
* NY Times – Hoppert – Justify Wins Kentucky Derby, Conquering Rain, Mud and a 136-Year Curse
Phil has a question:
Did Huck Finn set up the Garden with a Master class.
Knox News – McDermott – Blackberry Farm’s master gardener named a top food ‘maker’ by Food & Wine
Food and Wine – Donnelly – 3 Wines to Pair with Fried Chicken
Love To Know – Frazier – 12 Perfect Wines to Pair With Fried Chicken
Southern Kitchen – Gardner – Drinks that’ll give your (yard) bird the fine dining treatment
If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they’re so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you’re willing to prepare them – chances are good it won’t be every day.
Michael Pollan
Bloodhorse – Hammonds – Champagne Anyone Pops Gulfstream Park Oaks Upset
TDN – DeBernardis – Street Sense Filly Puts It All Together in Gulfstream Park Oaks
Phil Has a question:
Did Champagne Anyone know that Phil was featuring Champagne and Fried Chicken.
Only 5 Kentucky Derby points races left.
Phil’s not including the overseas races as Phil doesn’t think anyone will be coming over after the bashing the overseas horses took in the UAE Derby.
Wood Memorial Aqueduct Apr 6, 2019 100-40-20-10
Blue Grass Keeneland Apr 6, 2019 100-40-20-10
Santa Anita Derby Santa Anita Park Apr 6, 2019 100-40-20-10
Lexington Keeneland Apr 13, 2019 20-8-4-2
Arkansas Derby Oaklawn Park Apr 13, 2019 100-40-20-10
2019 Kentucky Derby Prep Races
Phil has a question:
How many people know the difference between Sync and NSync.
How many people have Synced their devices without knowing the difference.
How many people have watched their personal information go Bye, Bye Bye when they Synced without knowing the difference.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
Phil has an idea:
Someone should print thousands of cards with that saying on it and every time one of those red light beggars comes tapping on your window drop one of the cards into their hat.
Phil has a question:
Was Ben Ginter the father of the new craft beer revolution.
Prince George Citizen – Ben Ginter a big part of B.C. brewing history
The Ennead understands that there are some things Phil will never tire of.
LA Times – Erskine – Taste-testing Dodger Stadium’s new food, including a brazen $21 sandwich
Phil has a question:
When teams like the Dodgers are upping their food game this season does it mean that what they’re really doing is upping their food prices this season.
A Hot Dog At the Ball Park Is Better Than Steak At the Ritz
Humphrey Bogart
You wonder, as those fans wearing the Tulowitzki and Donaldson jerseys try to tell Trent Thornton from Clayton Richard from Daniel Hudson, whether Rogers might have some second thoughts about all this.
When your team is plainly not trying to win, why should you expect your customers to care?
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Field of 10, No Purse Boost On Tap for Wood Memorial
Bloodhorse – Omaha Beach, Improbable Fire Bullets at Santa Anita
Paulick Report – Tacitus’ ‘Demeanor,’ ‘Pedigree’ Should Be Advantageous In Wood Memorial
Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, thought comes before speech.
Luther Standing Bear
New Yorker – Fry – “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy
NY Times – Op Ed – Rarick – How to Save the American Racehorse
Marie Curie
Horse Race Insiders – Berner – Bleeders: It’s All in the Families
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients – a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.
Timothy Leary
TDN – Bill Finley – Op/Ed: The CHRB May Just Have Saved the Sport of Horse Racing
TDN – Ross -Santa Anita: Reactions from Those Present
All things share the same breath: the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Chief Seattle
Phil has a question:
How could you go wrong with a beer that’s brewed just north of the Spirit River Highway a few kms NE of Rycroft.
Will Dunvegan Brewing be opening a distillery using one of the many stills hiding in the bushes surrounding Rycroft.
Somewhere Down The Crazy River
TDN – TD Thornton – Lasix Dosage Halved for Remainder of Santa Anita, Golden Gate Meets
Bloodhorse – Ganz – CHRB Implements New Race-Day Medication Rules
NY Times – Rabin – New York Sues Sackler Family Members and Drug Distributors
PBS – What Purdue Pharma’s settlement with Oklahoma means for the opioid crisis
Phil has a question:
What is the difference between the Sackler family and El Chapo.
Phil has an answer:
El Chapo’s death toll was lower.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht
Driving – Maronese – The Wagon Queen Family Truckster is headed to the Barrett-Jackson auction
National Post – Hanna – You’re using a cutting board incorrectly. Reader, the hole has a purpose
National Post – 30 Smart Kitchen Tips
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
The Guardian – McClinton – Nicolas Cage files for annulment after just four days of marriage
Metro – Storey -Nicolas Cage files for an annulment just four days after surprise Las Vegas wedding
How much Botox can a pair of lips take before they sag below your knees.
NY Times – Hoffman – What Better Muse than James Harden’s Beard?
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life. Perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Chief Tecumsah
Paulick Report – Steffanus – Vinegar And Horses: What’s It Used For, And Does Science Back It Up?
Garden and Gun – Alexander, Rhodes and Sanders – Southern Chefs’ Go-To Road Trip Snacks
Bloodhorse – Plus Que Parfait Finds Path to Victory in UAE Derby
TDN – Berry – American One-Two in the UAE Derby
Paulick Report – Ortiz Doubles Up As Plus Que Parfait Digs In For UAE Derby Triumph
Phil has a question:
Have you ever noticed how much more enjoyable it is to watch thoroughbred racing where the commentators provide insights and intelligent comments with no blonde bimbo babble.
With no ontrack wagering allowed in Dubai do you think all of those men in their kandoras were busy posting to Instragam, Spotify, Facebook or Twitter in the 10 or so minutes before post time.
Hermann Hesse
Esquire – Rai – 5 celebrity chefs making their big, fat, Dubai debut in 2019
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – Pace Didn’t Make This Race
“I watched on the TV over by the jock’s room because I watched the 11th race on that TV and my horse [Restoring Hope] won. So, I said, ‘Yeah, I’m going back to that TV,” Servis said. “When he broke and Luis decided to go and it looked like he was going to get the lead by himself. I said, ‘That’s good.’ Then, I saw 24 [seconds] and I said, ‘Well, that’s good.’ Then, I saw his ears up and I saw the 48.8 or something, I said, ‘This is good,’ because I know he’s going kick. I said, ‘This is really good.’
“Luis walked the dog. He backed them up. I have to give him credit. I think it had a lot to do with it,” he added. “I’m not downgrading the horse, but Luis did a great job.”
Paulick Report – Saez ‘Walked The Dog’ With Maximum Security In Florida Derby
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Maximum Security Much the Best in Florida Derby
TDN – DeBernadis – No Catching New Year’s Day Colt in Florida Derby
Paulick Report – Maximum Security Goes Gate-To-Wire In Florida Derby
Phil has a question:
How did Maximum Security get such slow uncontested fractions much slower than the Oaks fractions.
What can you learn from a race where the lone speed set slow fractions and then held on with the closers unable to make up ground.
Does Mott know how to say Pay Day Mile and ask Pat to come back and give his horse a decent trip.
With all due deference to Steve Haskins and the Sundre other Derby Dozen pickers their Derby Dozens have been poached, boiled, scrambled, fried and deviled, with Mr. Arnold waiting in the wings. Phil can’t remember seeing such an inconsistent group of 3 year olds on the Triple Crown Trail. None of the contenders and pretenders look capable of winning the Triple Crown and from the last few races Phil’s not sure if we’ll have a 2019 Kentucky Derby winner.
Paulick Report – Hackbarth – The Derby 20 Presented By Adequan: Hoping For Clarity
Bloodhorse – Haskins – Derby Dozen April 2 2019 presented by Shadwell Farm.
LA Times – Plaschke -LeBron James’ inaugural Lakers season ends as a complete bust
Phil M Stockmen
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