Phil’s Phinal Countdown to the
2021 Kentucky Derby
147
samedi 1 mai
You cannot be a successful horse player if you are going to get the worst of the price all the time.
Pittsburg Phil
John Jeremiah Sullivan Horseman Pass By_(secretariat)
Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved – Hunter_S_Thompson
How to make a Woodford Reserve – Woodford Spire
You’ll need:
– 1.5 oz. Woodford Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey
– 2 oz. lemonade
– 1 oz. cranberry juice
– Lemon twist for garnish
Steps:
1) Add all ingredients into a mixing glass and stir.
2) Pour over ice.
3) Garnish with a lemon twist.
4) Easy, right? Now, trot along.
Raspberry Gin COVID -19 Vaccination Cocktail
NY Times – Drape – Hoppert – What to Know About the 147th Kentucky Derby
This is Horse Racing – Joe Clancy – #RunningForJake
“Horse ownership is, by and large, a money-losing proposition,” Moss said. “And the reason why so many people enjoy owning racehorses is the experience that goes along with it—being able to go to the barn, watch your horse train in the morning, feed him peppermints, show up to the race in the afternoon, the excitement of the race with all your friends at the racetrack, maybe getting your picture made in the winner’s circle if your horse wins. All of that went away during the pandemic.” As Paulick asked, “If you can’t go see your horses, do you want to go buy more horses?”
Sportico – Johnwallstreet – Thoroughbred Sales, Prices Expected to Rebound After Grim 2020
TDN – McGrath – This Side Up: If the Hardboot Fits…
LA Times – Wood – A man and his van: Dave Grohl on the romance and stank of life on the road
TDN – McIngvale To Place Derby Bet On Track
Bloodhorse – King – Essential Quality’s Odds Plunge After 1st McIngvale Bet
Don’t interfere with something that ain’t botherin’ you none.
Cowboy Wisdom
“The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) received a complaint against licensee Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum on April 28, 2021,” Marc A. Guilfoil, Executive Director of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, said in a statement on Thursday. “In consultation with counsel, and according to Kentucky regulations, the KHRC has determined the complaint does not articulate a violation of KHRC regulations.”
News ER – Derby Won’t Bar Sheikh Over His Daughter’s Disappearance
Phil has a question:
If Godolpin is kicked out who will fill that Gap.
Being an activist is about getting things done. It’s not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
Christine Quinn
WKYT – ‘All eyes on Derby’: Louisville organizers plan protests for Kentucky Derby weekend
The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river.
H. Ross Perot
Phil has a question:
Do the “activists” understand how quickly they can turn a moderate against them when they continue to hassle the moderates who just wanna have fun.
Is there such a thing as an activist with a sense of humour.
Did you hear about the constipated activist
She was always trying to start a movement…
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Willoughby – Kentucky Derby: Rock Your World looks a huge threat
Bloodhorse – Daugherty – Jackie’s Warrior Headlines Loaded Pat Day Mile Field
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
Cowboy Wisdom
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Atlas Obscura – Wallace – At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Is Still Growing
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
BBC – Renshaw – Is rewatching old TV good for the soul?
“Remember when” is the lowest form of conversation
Tony Soprano
Bloodhorse – King – Essential Quality Favored in Derby, Oaks-Derby Double
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
Samantha Bee
ESPN – Betting guide for the 147th Kentucky Derby
Know when to put a good bet down and when not to. Don’t temper your bet to the price.
Pittsburg Phil
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov
A good jockey, a good horse, a good bet.
Pittsburg Phil
TDN – Bill Finley – The Beginning of the End? Arlington Kicks Off 2021 Meet Friday
vendredi 30 avril
TDN – Sherack – Derby Day 147 Is Here!
Phil has a question:
Toro or Topo.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
Bloodhorse – Crosby – King Fury Out of Kentucky Derby
SportsNet – Kenward – Canada’s ‘Keepmeinmind’ eyeing massive upset at Kentucky Derby
Bloodhorse – King – On-Track Vibe is Back at Kentucky Oaks
Bloodhorse – Stakes Preview: Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby
TDN – Green – Derby Diary: A Pre-Derby Day Of Distraction
Phil has a question:
When will Walmart stop selling made in China merchandise.
The Hill – Bowden – Lawyers, students want Kentucky Derby favorite barred from race
Phil has a question:
When will Quebec stop buying middle east oil.
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
TDN – Thornton – The TDN Derby Top 20 for Apr. 29
The Paulick Report – Joe Nevills – The Haiku Handicapper Presented By Form2Win: 2021 Kentucky Oaks
TDN – Sherack – Thursday’s Trackside Derby Report
NY Times – Drape – Hoppert – Expert Picks: Who Will Win the Kentucky Derby
Garden and Gun – Martin – Everything You Need to Know About This Year’s Unusual Kentucky Derby
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Patricia Neal
This is Horse Racing – Tom Law- Kentucky Oaks Day stakes picks
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
Vladimir Lenin
THis is Horse Racing – Tom Law – Oaks Day Bankroll Challenge
Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.
Bruce Lee
So, figure something out. Take one of those segments that have worked so well with the NBA — maybe he sits down for a one-on-one player interview and coaxes personality of them — and port it over to the NHL show. Have him make terrible gambling predictions. Whatever. Just do something. For a sport that constantly struggles to bring in casual fans, this is almost too easy.”
Auburn Wire – Stultz – The Athletic writer wants Charles Barkley to become NHL analyst
Phil has a question:
Who could be the Charles Barkley of thoroughbred racing.
Bloodhorse – Spendthrift Acquires Breeding Rights to Rock Your World
If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.
Tamlyn Tomita
Bloodhorse – King – McIngvale to Make $2 Million-$4 Million Derby Wager
A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge – meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.
In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.
Bruce Lee
Bloodhorse – Hammonds – Stonestreet Represented by Three Kentucky Oaks Starters
Oh, meltdown. It’s one of these annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus.
Mr Burns
Wired – Harrison – 35 Years Later, Studies Show a Silver Lining From Chernobyl
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possibly go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry Pratchett
ESPN – Schefter – Aaron Rodgers doesn’t want to return to Green Bay Packers, sources say
When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.
Vanna White
The Spun – Report: How Jeopardy Actually Feels About Aaron Rodgers
Phil has a question:
How about Aaron and Bill.
If the skies were able to dream, they would dream of dragons.
Ilona Andrews
Brisnet – Scully – Kentucky Derby Report – Riding with Hot Rod Charlie
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Phil has a question:
Will the buffalo still be able to roam.
Will the grass be greener on the other side of a virtual fence.
If it keeps cows in, can it keep predators out.
It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.
James Clerk Maxwell
Sportsnet – Sadler – Looking back at Patrick Roy’s first NHL head coaching job
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
Denis Waitley
Bloodhorse – Mitchell – Search Results Raising Oaks Hopes High for Machmer Hall
Phil has a question:
Did you remember that there’s a new 20 horse gate at Churchill Downs.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
Beware the Bourbonic plague.
Hawthorne Sal
Phil has a question:
Did you notice where the last few winners were placed in the early pace scenario.
Bloodhorse – Hall – Valets Have Option to Strike in Dispute With Churchill
An adventure isn’t worth telling if there aren’t any dragons in it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Ringer – Surrey – Ten Years Ago, ‘Fast Five’ Turned Its Street Racers Into Superheroes
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.
Marge Kennedy
The Ringer – Curtis – How the 2020 NFL Draft Kicked Off Sports TV’s Great De-Glossing
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decider – ‘What Drives Us’ Review: The Dave Grohl-Directed Music Doc Is Absolutely Worth The Ride
TIF – “Wagering Insecurity” – Part 6 – Proof
Paulick Report – Voss – A Look Back At Mary Hirsch, Who Opened The Door For Female Trainers At Derby
TDN – Pennsylvania Amends Lasix Rules
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz
The Ringer – The Winners and Losers of the 2021 NFL Draft’s First Round
ESPN – New England Patriots pick Alabama Crimson Tide QB Mac Jones with No. 15 pick in NFL draft
Phil has a question:
Does demented Donald know that Rudy Giuliani was never drafted by the Patriots.
jeudi 29 avril
NY Times – Drape – We Know Where the Sheikh’s Horse Is. But Where Is His Daughter?
Bloodhorse – King – McIngvale to Make $2 Million-$4 Million Derby Wager
Garden and Gun – Sivewright – Hat Tip To Willie Nelson
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Sidor – What’s new this time at the Kentucky Derby?
Phil says thanks to one of his sources and to all of his sources.
Phil has a question:
Who is prospect X in the Kentucky Derby.
Horse Racing Nation – Macatangay – Kentucky Derby 2021: Why this starter is the ‘X Factor’
Bloodhorse – Kuenzli – Saez Ready for Another Try After Derby Disappointment
TDN – Belmont Re-Opening to Limited Spectators Saturday
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker Do.
Is Clark Kent still looking for a phone booth.
Outside – Perry – The Plot to Kill the Olympics
Phil has a question:
Can they build a 20 lane swimming pool.
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Hunter S. Thompson
TDN – Sherack – Wednesday’s Trackside Derby Report
Horse Racing Nation – Wilkin – Boeheim chases Derby dream with ‘long, long, long shot’
NY Times – A Bend – When the Cellos Play, the Cows Come Home
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough.
Parnelli Jones
Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.
Juan Manuel Fangio
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Bloodhorse – Daughtery – Sales Graduates Bring Hefty Price Tags to Derby, Oaks
Sportico – Crupi – NHL Deal Gives Turner Six Months to Develop TV Plan
Horse racing is animated roulette.
Roger Kahn
Bloodhorse – Feld – Our Voices: Hot Rod Charlie a Manifest Promise for Feld
Bloodhorse – Litfin – Handicapping: Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks
Horse Racing Nation – Stauble – Private clocker: My top 5 Kentucky Derby workouts
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
Richard Petty
WKYC – Axelrod – Browns QB Baker Mayfield on UFO sighting: ‘It is real. I saw it’
I’m tired of pretending I’m not a rock star from Mars.
Bill Belichick
Bloodhorse – Angst – Known Agenda Leads Pletcher Quartet of Derby Starters
Canada’s National Observer – Fawcett – Epicurious swore off beef. Is it time to rethink what we eat?
There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
Paula Poundstone
mercredi 28 avril
Phil has a question:
Is Topo branching Out.
For now, there are more questions than answers about fatigue resistance. But I suspect we’ll see a lot more research about it in the years to come. “In longer endurance events,” Leo points out, “it’s all about how you can perform in a fatigued state, rather than a fresh state.”
Outside – Hutchinson – The New Science of “Fatigue Resistance”
No, we don’t cheat. And even if we did, I’d never tell you.
Tommy Lasorda
TDN – Churchill and McIngvale Partner on KY Derby Foster Family Initiative
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Stevens – Mutasaabeq Supplemented to Two Thousand Guineas
Racing Post – Oli Bell is keen on some leading Guineas contenders for his team
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Americans set to descend on Royal Ascot in force
TDN – Sherack – Early Impressions: Kentucky Derby 147
Phil has a question:
Have you figured out how the post position draw has affected the pace complexion of the race and how it will affect the horse you like.
After drawing the bookend 1 and 20 posts how many times did Pletch utter a word that Rosie would replace.
Who will be Alphonse and who will be Gaston.
The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car; it’s the one who refuses to lose.
Dale Earnhardt
TDN – Bill Finley – Hot Rod Charlie Dons Blanket Honoring Jake Panus
Bloodhorse – Essential Quality Draws Post 14, Made 2-1 Derby Choice
DRF – McGee – Kentucky Derby 2021: Morning-line favorite Essential Quality will start from post 14
TDN – Sherack – Unbeaten Champion Essential Quality Favored for Kentucky Derby
TIF – Wagering Insecurity” – Part 5 – Bingo
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker do.
Canterbury Live – Wells – Diodoro Chose Horses Over Hockey
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker do.
Minnesota Racehorse Engagement Project
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker do.
ESPN – AP – Kendrick Carmouche to be first Black jockey in Kentucky Derby since 2013
NY Times – Drape – Running for the Roses, the Record Books and His Father
The Ringer – Sherman – The Case for the First-Round Quarterback Draft Mulligan
Sportico – Steinberg – WarnerMedia Poised to Pick Up NHL Package as NBC Exits Hockey Rights
Bloodhorse – King – Churchill to Debut 20-Horse Derby Gate Sept. 1
TDN – Indiana Grand to Add New Barn and Dorm
TDN – Ritz – Hidden Stash Takes Oliver, BBN Racing to First Derby
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
TDN – Green – Derby Diary: A Lifetime of a Chance
mardi 27 avril
Phil has a question:
Is Topo branching out.
ChrisD – Assiniboia Downs’ Purses Up, Morale High Despite Pandemic
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker do.
Is Clark Kent still looking for a phone booth.
TDN – Bill Finley – McIngvale to Make Largest Bet in Derby History
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker do and why is Horse Racing Alberta hiring an assistant for him.
NY Times – Marsh – Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To?
TDN – Kornacki To Join NBC Derby Coverage
TDN – Oklahoma Attorney General Files Lawsuit Challenging HISA
Louisville Courier-Journal – What’s your Derby horse name?
Town and Country Mag – Kentucky Derby History
I gotta horse, I gotta horse to beat the favourite…
Ras Prince Monolulu
Bloodhorse – Rock Your World Hot Rod Charlie Get Feel for Churchill
Horse Racing Nation – Manocchio – Ranked: The best Kentucky Derby Preps
TDN – ‘Rising Star’ Malathaat Favored For Oaks 147
Bloodhorse – Malathaat Made 5-2 Favorite for Kentucky Oaks
’Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation.
Tony Soprano
Horse Racing Nation – Greer – First Look: Stars lining up for 16 ‘other’ Derby weekend stakes
Bloodhorse – Angst – Dayoutoftheoffice to Make 2021 Debut in Eight Belles
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Shedaresthedevil Seeks Oaks Day Double in La Troienne
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
TDN – Bill Finley – With Triple-Digit Beyer, Sky’s The Limit for Flightline
Pop Matters – Where The Hell Is Joe Strummer’s Car
lundi 26 avril
Phil has a question:
What the fuck does the Undertaker do.
Would Rosie change that to a different 4 letter word.
What 4 letter word would Rosie Change that to.
The entries for the 2021 Kentucky Oaks were released this morning and 2 trainers that have trained horses in Alberta in the past have 3 year old fillies in the race.
Robert Atras who trained for many years at Assiniboia Downs and a couple in Alberta has Maracuja, owned by Beach Haven Thoroughbreds LLC bred by River Bend Farm Inc., Austin Musselman & Janie Musselman and to be ridden by Kendrick Carmouche. When she cracked her maiden Maracuja scurried into the contention – how did the Undertaker miss that when he always used to scurry down the HRA Hallways to the QKB’s office to rat on Phil and Sal – and put the entire field away including UpSeventyFour, a filly bred by Albertan Mat Monaco and named in honour of Richard Yates.
Robertino Diodoro who trained in Alberta for many years has Ava’s Grace owned by Cypress Creek Equine bred by Southern Equine Stables, LLC and to be ridden by David Cohen.
The entries for the 2020 Kentucky Derby will be released on Tuesday April 27, 2021. Robertino Diodoro who trained in Alberta for many years will have Keepmeinmind owned by Cypress Creek LLC and Bennewith, Arnold, bred by Southern Equine Stables, LLC and to be ridden by David Cohen.
Indecision is not an essential quality for betting the 2021 Kentucky Derby.
Hawthorne Sal
Bloodhorse – Caddo River Out of Kentucky Derby
TDN – Caddo River Out of Derby
Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures.
Simon Noble
4 Reasons to Bet Against Essential Quality in the Kentucky Derby
Lazy Bettor Guides: Lightning Quick 2 Minute Kentucky Derby Breakdown
Rosie Napravnik Catches Up with Todd Pletcher
David Carroll Talks Soup and Sandwich
Bloodhorse – Never Judge A Derby Runner by His Points
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
Ian Fleming
BBC – Keogh – Prince Monolulu: The truth behind horse racing’s original showman tipster
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
Steven Wright
Bloodhorse – Casse Assistant Carroll No Stranger To Kentucky Derby
I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.
Paula Poundstone
Bloodhorse – Mandaloun Looks To Reverse Kentucky Derby Trends
Put all your money on the horse you least want to see win. Then win or lose, there is a reason to celebrate.
Dan Rosenberg
Horse Race Inside – Pricci – Does Anybody Care About This Years Kentucky Derby
Horse Racing Nation – Rispoli – Picks Up Brooklyn Strong For First Kentucky Derby Mount
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
Johan Cruyff
LA Times – Farmer John Dogs Gone
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That’s how I lost my mind.
Steve Allen
BBC News – Bloom How product placements may soon be added to classic films?
Lit Hub – Richter – Throwing A Rave Deep In Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone
Science Daily – You can’t teach speed: Sprinters break 10-year rule
Town and Country Mag – Sykes and Hubbard – Kentucky Derby Facts
TDN – TD Thornton – 31 Shades And Counting of Derby Gray
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
James Rado
National Observer – Secret to Better Soil Donkey Dung
Fivethirtyeight -Beware of Humans
The Ringer – Herman – Oscars Academy Awards 2021 Summary Review Highlights
I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.
Jessica Rabbit
Atlas Obscura – O’Connell – This Irish Academic Is Getting His PhD in Ghost Whiskey
Esquire – What I’ve Learned – Muhammad Ali
Esquire – What I’ve Learned – Joe Frazier
Road to the 2021 Kentucky Derby
Garden and Gun – 15 Winning Kentucky Derby Recipes
TDN – Breeders’ Cup Launches Free Online Derby Contest
Phil has a question:
What does the Undertaker Do.
Bloodhorse – Radio, Television Schedules for Kentucky Derby Week
Bloodhorse – King – Derby Dozen
Sports Illustrated – Gambling – Horse Racing – Early Kentucky Derby Horse Profiles
Louisville Courier-Journal – Frakes – Why your 2021 Kentucky Derby horse can — or can’t — win
The Spectrum – Peter Monaco – Profiling the 2021 Kentucky Derby contenders
TwinSpires Blog – Johnson – 10 little-discussed Kentucky Derby records
Road to the the 2020 Kentucky Oaks
Phil M Stockmen
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Topo Cries Foul!!
The Topo Restaurant featured above did not contact Topo to obtain rights to the Mouse of the People’s name!! Rights Infringement – Topo sees a lawsuit here!! Plus the real Topo is much better looking than the imposter!!
Phil – the bigger question for the asking is – does anyone employed at HRA know what’s going on beyond a 6 block radius of their Edmonton office?
Two young trainers who plied their trade in Western Canada where anyone who passed an Economics 101 course long ago could see there was no financial incentive to remain here moved on to the big time. So far in 2021 horses trained by Diodoro have won 79 races for total purse money of $2,290,478US and Atras have won 20 races for total purse money of $1,253,952US in 1/3 of the year.
Total purse money for all thoroughbreds in all of Alberta in 2019 was $5,909,916CDN.
Don’t need an abacus to see the writing on the wall.