|
Belmont Stakes (G1)
|
||||||||
| Post | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Odds | ||||
| 1 | Bourbonic |
|
|
15-1 | ||||
| 2 | Essential Quality |
|
|
2-1 | ||||
| 3 | Rombauer |
|
|
3-1 | ||||
| 4 | Hot Rod Charlie |
|
|
7-2 | ||||
| 5 | France Go de Ina |
|
|
30-1 | ||||
| 6 | Known Agenda |
|
|
6-1 | ||||
| 7 | Rock Your World |
|
|
9-2 | ||||
| 8 | Overtook |
|
|
20-1 | ||||
May 302021
• Belmont Stakes 2021 (G1) PPs
sabato 5 giugno
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Belmont Stakes Offers a Reset for 3-Year-Old Division
TDN – McGrath – This Side Up: True Positives of Testing a Champion
The dark bay or brown colt is out of stakes winner Hero’s Amor, by Street Sense, a full sister to graded stakes placed stakes winner Threefiveindia.
Paulick Report – Arrogate Colt Fastest At OBS June Under Tack Show’s Third Session
TwinSpires – Belmont Stakes Betting Guide, Tipsheet, and Meet the Contenders 2021
The Ringer – Bauman – Coach K Built a Basketball Empire
Sports Illustrated – Wertheim – How the L.A. ’84 Olympics Changed Everything
BBC – 1984: Moscow pulls out of US Olympics
With there being some many sponsors for the 1984 Games who sponsored the Russian boycott.
Visine – It gets the Reds out fast.
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – WHAT IF YOU WENT TO THE BELMONT STAKES AND A BREEDERS’ CUP BROKE OUT?
NY Times – Drape and Hoppert – Expert Picks: Who Will Win the Belmont Stakes?
LA Times – Cherwa – Horse racing newsletter: It’s Belmont Stakes day
Liquorista – Best New York Bourbons 2021
TwinSpires – 2021 Belmont Stakes News & Notes
Bloodhorse – Keeler Johnson’s Belmont Stakes 153 Selections
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
Twin Spires – Mucciolo – Belmont Park: Exotic plays for the Just a Game Stakes
TDN – Carasso – A ‘Commanding’ Tokyo Debut For Deep Impact Colt
TwinSpires – Mucciolo: How I will bet the Belmont Stakes
TwinSpires – Johnson – 2021 Belmont Stakes Tipsheet
This is Horse Racing – Law – 2021 Belmont Day stakes picks
ESPN – Fallica and Marks – Betting guide for the 153rd Belmont Stakes
venerdì 4 giugno
Bloodhorse – King and Ehalt – Kumin, Partners Vow to Stick With Baffert
TDN – Santa Anita Releases Baffert Statement
Paulick Report – ‘A Valued Friend Of Monmouth Park’: Baffert Trainees Would Be Welcome In Haskell
TDN – Baffert Can Run at Santa Anita, Del Mar, Monmouth
Bloodhorse – Handicapping: Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
TDN – Denman Returns to the Booth at Del Mar
I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life – pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.
Alex Rocco
Paulick Report – HISA: Details Are Scant, But You Can Bet More OOCT Is Coming
And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
Steve Carlton
Bloodhorse – King – Ortiz Jr. Out “Couple Weeks” After Belmont Park Fall
Paulick Report – Repole: Longshot Overtook Well-Bred For Belmont’s Distance
Bloodhorse – King – Hot Rod Charlie Enters Belmont with Full Tank
TDN – Sherack – Thursday’s Trackside Belmont Stakes Report
Horse Race Insider – Holly Hunt for Insider Sports – THE ONE GREAT BETTOR
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote
giovedì 3 giugno
Horse racing has a great opportunity to step up our game and attract new fans. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness ratings showed people are interested in horse racing. Heck, my Gallery Furniture promotion shows that the Kentucky Derby and racing resonate with the guy and gal on the street.
We’ve got to attract younger people. We need to attract the followers of Barstool Sports, Bleacher Report, Action Network. We need to embrace sports-betting content.
There is no easy fix. It takes commitment, effort and ingenuity. But our sport and industry are worth it. Excluding football games, the Kentucky Derby was the third-most watched sporting event since the pandemic hit in March 2020, trailing only the NCAA men’s basketball championship game won by Baylor and Gonzaga’s semifinal victory over UCLA, according to Sports Media Watch. That’s impressive.
The Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown and horse racing are still relevant. But you’ve got to flame the fire–and also be smart about where we bet. Cumulatively, it makes a huge difference.
TDN – Letter to the Editor from James McIngvale: Where You Bet Matters
Paulick Report – McIngvale: Where You Bet Matters
Sal says that the horse racing industry should listen to guy who sold a boatload of mattresses.
NY Times – Mike Krzyzewski, Celebrated Duke Coach, Will Retire After Coming Season
ESPN – McGee – Get ready for Coach K’s farewell tour — and a realistic run to a national title
Sal says that many have had their picture on a box of Wheaties, but only Coach K has his own cereal.
LA Times – Cherwa – Churchill Downs suspends Bob Baffert after Medina Spirit fails second drug test
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something which is not displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Bloodhorse – Angst – HISA Chairman Uses Derby Case to Outline Differences
TDN – Bill Finley – HISA Board Chair: We Will Be Tough
Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.
Jodi Picoult
Bloodhorse – The Field for the 2021 Belmont Stakes
TDN – Sherack – Rock Your World Reloads for Belmont
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Rosario, Rock Your World Seek a Do-Over in Belmont
TDN – Dozen Set For Derby, Ballet Drawn Nine
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Boylan – Bolshoi Ballet to be O’Brien’s Sole Derby Runner
The Intelligencer – Steib – What Can We Expect From the Pentagon’s UFO Report?
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
NY Times – Greenwood – Where Your Watermelon Came From
Grantland – Serrano – Which Movie Astronauts Would You Want to Be Stranded With in Outer Space?
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that
NY Post – O’Connor – Steve Nash’s approach to Nets’ Big 3 is working wonders
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Godfrey – Epsom Derby: Aidan O’Brien’s eight winners ranked
The Intelligencer – Steib – The Trump Organization Wants to Sell Its D.C. Hotel Again
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.
Lady Gaga
Grub Street – Sugar – Everything You Need to Know About the Meat Scandal Taking Over Instagram
NY Times – Easterbrook – When Did Optimism Become Uncool?
Garden and Gun – Heckert – An Oral History of the Bluebird Cafe
Vulture – Haylock – Coachella Will Return to the Desert in April 2022
It is customers that decide if we succeed.
Steve Easterbrook
Bloodhorse – King – Belmont Stakes Dreams Realized With Essential Quality
You’ve got to do the research. You’ve got to understand the market place, know your competitors.
Peter Jones
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something which is not displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sal says only if you define us as a bunch of arrogant useless eastern assholes.
Sal says you won’t find too many Canadians west of the 100th meridian feeling awful about the Leafs falling out of the playoffs or east of Lake Ontario for that matter.
Say says that the Toronto Sports Network and the eastern sports media should be roasting the Maple Laffs with the same ferocity that they used on the Oilers scant days ago. Sal says that the Toronto Sports Network seems to Button up when it comes to criticizing anything Toronto.
Horse Racing Alberta – Thank You For Your Passion And Dedication To The Sport of Racing in Alberta
Sal says that the Undertaker, the Undertaker’s new Assistant, Clark Kent and the McQB must all be too busy watching Jason Kenney and his minions flaunt the Covid-19 rules or the construction on the Dome so they have to get one of the Directors to send out a Thank You e-mail. Or maybe they’re waiting in line for their tickets on the Zipline between Alison’s sky palace and the Dome.
Mind you it’s the most comprehensive message Sal’s seen from Horse Racing Alberta since the Undertaker’s been scurrying the hallways.
Sal says there’s not much interest in horse racing in Alberta when not even 150 people participated in Marcommworks online survey. That’s less than one third of the number still being infected with Covid-19 every day.
With interest like that Marcomm’s best advise may be to shut off the lights and send the monies to the Alberta Universities for research so they don’t have to run begging to the Chinese for research funding.
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that’s filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don DeLillo
mercoledì 2 giugno
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
John Wooden
Sports Illustrated – Jackson – ‘He Is Duke’: Jay Bilas, Others React to Coach K Retiring Next Season
ESPN – Duke Blue Devils basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski plans to retire after season, sources say
NY Times – Drape – Positive Drug Test Confirmed for Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit
Bloodhorse – Oser – Split Sample Confirms Medina Spirit Drug Positive
Sal says that that’s what Sal thinks the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority will do when they mete out Baffert’s penalty.
TDN – Essential Quality Draws Post Two in Belmont
Horse Race Insider – ESSENTIAL QUALITY DRAWS POST 2, INSTALLED 2-1 BELMONT STAKES FAVORITE
Sal says the decline may be bad for politics, but it could be devastating for horse racing.
Sportico – McCann – MLB Sued by Home Depot Co-Founder’s Business Group Over All-Star Move
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter
Bloodhorse – Oser – Mean Mary Back in New York Stakes to Defend Title
CBS News – Source: Gretzky Tried To Protect Wife
TSN – CP – Nets eliminate Celtics; play Bucks next
TDN – McGrath – Belmont a Weathervane for Calumet
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Eight Belles, Kentucky Oaks Fillies Meet Again in Acorn
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Epsom Oaks: Aidan O’Brien’s eight winners ranked
Atlantic – Yong – An Unorthodox Strategy to Stop Cars From Hitting Deer
Brisnet – Jouster faces distance test in competitive Wonder Again
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
Bill Lee
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Paulick Report – Swiss Skydiver Faces Deep Field In Saturday’s Ogden Phipps
Bloodhorse – Angst – Firenze Fire, Flagstaff to Meet in True North Stakes
People in China say: ‘If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.
Li Na
Bloodhorse – Hartman New Chair of AZ Race Track Industry Program
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Jennings – O’Brien Expects Derby Pace to Benefit High Definition
TDN – O’Brien’s Cazoo Derby Team Being Finalised
TDN – Berry – The Derby Approach
National Observer – Fawcett-Atkinson – Why a Japanese delicacy grows near old B.C. internment camp
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee
SportsNet – Bourne – Maple Leafs autopsy thoughts: Where did it go wrong and what’s next?
Sal says that Freddie wears the moustache better.
The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
Bill Lee
martedì 1 giugno
Bloodhorse – Ehalt and King – Essential Quality Favored From Post 2 in Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Strong Field of 10 Ready to Take Manhattan
Alberta’s Open for Summer Plan
The Supreme Court of Canada refusing to hear the Appeal of the 2017 Canadian Derby Result finally ending the wayward saga.
elmoudjaweb – CP – Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from horse owners over derby dispute
al.com – Belmont Stakes 2021: Meet the contenders and watch them run
Bloodhorse – King – Rebel’s Romance to Miss Belmont With Hind Leg Infection
TDN – Keepmeinmind to Skip Belmont
The Bitter Southerner’s Summer Reading Roundup
Sal says that he hates it when far too many notalents get published just because they know a few buzzwords or buzztopics. One of the current buzzwords in the literary industry is diaspora. Sal’s never seen the English language so tortured just go get this word into places where it doesn’t belong.
NY Times – Waldstein – As M.L.B. Honors Lou Gehrig, It Shines a Spotlight on A.L.S.
Sportico – Baudenhausen – Nike Backs Osaka Amid French Open Withdrawal Firestorm
There’s a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That’s baseball.
Ernie Harwell
The Bitter Southerner – Brown – It’s Always Cold in Huntsville
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
SportsNet – Coulter – ‘Quite tragic’: Maple Leafs fans react to another first-round playoff exit
Sportico – Crupi – Rodgers Trade Talk Has NFL TV Partners Mulling Game Swaps
ESPN – Legwold – Aaron Rodgers to the Denver Broncos: What would it take?
TSN – ESPN – Demovsky – Rodgers: Issue is with Packers’ philosophy
The Ringer – Sherman – The Aaron Rodgers 2021 Offseason Tracker
Sal says that Rodger’s actions were fun for a while, but he’s starting to act like he’s trying to Keep Up.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
Bloodhorse – Hangin with Haskin – 25 Years Ago: A.P. Indy Gets His Classic
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
Paulick Report -Cox: Belmont Stakes Triumph Can Add To Essential Quality’s Legacy
FiveThirtyEight – Rizzardini – Why Does Changing A Team’s Name Take So Long?
Toronto Sun – KOSHAN: Maple Leafs fail to get money’s worth out of Matthews and Marner
Toronto Sun – SIMMONS: This Leafs cut is the deepest
Sal says that the Toronto area will be in lockdown for a few more weeks as their hospitals are totally swamped treating all the broken bones from the fans bailing from the Leafs bandwagon.
lunedì 31 maggio
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens
Sal says that many academics and bibliophiles can repeat most of Dickens’ famous quote but most stop short and never bother with the last third. Sal says that that’s what makes the quote. Dickens is using a lot of flowery words to say that as much as things change they remain the same.
Bloodhorse – Wincze Hughes – Stability of Family Helps Hill Climb Mountain
Paulick Report – Channing Hill Injured In Oaklawn Spill; Muskoka Wonder Euthanized
In a time of changing sensitivities, an ancient sport struggles to justify itself.
The New Yorker – Finnegan – Can Horse Racing Survive?
Sal says that Finnegan tangentially hit upon a problem more serious than drugs or whips, the self created problem that horse racing doesn’t know how to solve – the unfair advantage that the whales have been given.
American horse racing was bolstered by the big bettors, known as “the whales,” who came back to the game in the summer. The whales are not obese billionaires sprawled on yachts, as I originally thought, but serried ranks of high-octane computers, operated by individuals who know nothing about horses but everything about betting. They bet on high-payoff combinations like trifectas and pick-sixes, and with the rebates they get from tracks, along with the exclusive access they reportedly get to the details of the existing pool bets, they are able to analyze and exploit all the inefficiencies. The most successful known whales of this type belong to the Elite Turf Club, which apparently has only twelve members and is based in Curaçao. The Stronach Group is the club’s majority owner, which suggests that the company is on both sides of the deal. Win-win. Stronach has taken to describing itself as “a world-class technology, entertainment and real estate development company with Thoroughbred racing and pari-mutuel wagering at the core.” Belinda Stronach, whose legal battle with her father was finally settled in August, leaving her in charge, says she is determined to modernize what she calls “the last great sporting legacy platform.”
Past The Wire – Jackpot Bets – Just for the “Elite”?
Do stakeholders in American Thoroughbred racing really understand the state of the business as it relates to wagering?
Do the horsepeople’s representative groups, HBPAs and THAs, that have a hand in approving contracts to permit wagers on their races, understand it?
Do the boards of major industry organizations?
Does Kentucky, whose economy is so intricately tied to the proliferation of Thoroughbred racing?
If so, there is no conceivable way that our sport would find itself in the position it does, as outlined in this special report.
Thoroughbred Idea Foundation – TIF Special Report: Racing Not Only For (the) Elite
Sal says that the TIF sounds like Phil or that bozo on FOX with all their questions and never any answers.
Sal says that the tracks, ADWS, horsemen’s organizations and regulatory bodies have both common and opposed goals but they all want an increasing slice of the shrinking pie. How can you start to divvy up the shrinking pie without complete transparency of the sources and compositions of that pie.
Last time Sal checked most tracks want half a million points for 3/4 of a cup of stale vending machine coffee from average Joe Bettor, but at the same time divvy out rebates from 1 – 10% of their wager to the whales and provide the whales with information and resources that they do not provide to average Joe Bettor.
Sal’s going to touch on the handle problem a bit more while he’s guest posting so stay tuned.
In the meantime Sal says to contact the candidates for the upcoming HBPA Alberta Director’s election and see what they know about the sources and composition of racing handle al fagiolo.
Alberta HBPA – Meet our 2021 Director Election Candidates
In the meantime Sal says to contact the McQKB, Clark Kent and the Undertaker and see what they know about the sources and composition of racing handle al fagiolo.
Also ask them what Alberta’s stance is on Clenbuterol and Albuterol which are prohibited in most jurisdictions.
Horse Racing Alberta – Contact
Sal says while your listening to the dead air enjoy a bowl of Pasta e Fagioli Soup.
Sal says this is for those of you who just went: What the fagiolo is a cranberry bean.
Bloodhorse – Charles Scheeler Elected Chair of HISA Board
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
Bloodhorse – Hot Rod Charlie, Rock Your World Settle In at Belmont
Paulick Report – Hot Rod Charlie, Rock Your World Among West Coast Shippers Arriving At Belmont Park
TDN – Bill Finley – Observations From a Whip-Free Weekend at Monmouth
ESPN – Ninan – My horses fought hard for me: Fouaad Mirza on Tokyo qualification
TDN – McGrath – This Side Up: Mourning Two Exceptions, Lamenting the Rule
Sports Illustrated – Campbell – Isn’t It Time the NHL Protected Stars the Way it Protects Goalies?
Sal says that the NHL cracked down on the self policing enforcers whose job it was to protect the Gretzkys and Crosbys, but failed to step in to protect the Gretzkys and Crosbys. That’s what you get when the Commissioner is still the guy that David Stern sent over to ensure the NBA would prosper.
Sports Illustrated – AP – Hélio Castroneves Wins Indianapolis 500 for the Fourth Time
Sal says that when the Indy 500 starts running electric cars the Gentlemen start your engines will lose its thrill unless they add in vroom vroom vroomers.
domenica 30 maggio
Sal says that Phil asked him back to guest post Holybull.ca’s 2021 Belmont Festival Preview.
Sal says that Phil didn’t limit him to a single topic so expect Sal to wander and meander like old man river amongst various tangents and cotangents and sines and cosines, relevant and irrelevant, timely and untimely, truth and fiction.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Viggo Mortensen
Mark Bittman’s history of why we eat bad food.
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
Satchel Paige
Long time Alberta thoroughbred trainer Robert (Bobby) Marsh passed away on May 13th 2021 at 92 years of age.
Bobby was a Director of the HBPA for many years and held the position of President from 1980 – 1982. He even made it to the Alberta Racing Commission.
Bobby trained thoroughbreds until 1992 and was awarded the Horseman of the Year title in 1991. He was a part owner and trainer of Canadian Derby and many other stakes winning, Count Lathum, and finished his training career with a record of 1788 starts and 214 wins from 1976 to 1992 according to Equibase. (Sal will update when pre 1976 stats are available.)
A memorial is planned for August with more details to be announced as the date approaches.
.
Sal says that for a number of years Phil was able to read and post select writings from the NY Times – The Rail Blog but today there’s Slim Pickens for thoroughbred racing in the mainstream media except when it’s drug or cruelty related.
Sal doesn’t want to shatter your illusions that thoroughbred racing is prospering when the amount of landscape that thoroughbred racing retains in the major and minor newspapers’ and their websites’ sports sections couldn’t grow a single mess of collard greens.
NY Times – Nir – She Galloped Into History, and Then Oblivion
Sal says that there is the occasional nugget, but you gotta do a lot of panning.
Sal says that speaking of pans how tough is it on the panhandlers these days when tap is the vogue and hardly anyone has change let alone to spare.
LA Times – Cherwa – Horse racing newsletter: Santa Anita’s Belmont trifecta
Sports Illustrated – Daily Cover – Roger Penske and The Indy 500
You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
Mario Andretti
Southern Living – 35 Memorial Day Recipes You Can Make in Your 13×9
The Bitter Southerner – Chauhan and Reiland – The Spices And Rices of Nolensville Pike
Sportico – JohnWallStreet – NY Times May Seek The Athletic to Hit Subscriber, Portfolio Goals
ESPN – Wyshynski – Inside the New York Islanders’ new UBS Arena, built for the NHL’s COVID-19 era
LA Times – Wharton – Exclusive: Lakers extend Staples Center lease for 20 years
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright
Sal says that football looked liked one of Brady’s Deflategates.
In a time of changing sensitivities, an ancient sport struggles to justify itself.
The New Yorker – Finnegan – Can Horse Racing Survive?
Paulick Report – XBTV: ‘A Candid Conversation With Owner/Breeder Nick Alexander’
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
Gore Vidal
TDN – Bill Finley – Parx Backstretch Raid Yields Significant Contraband
Sal says that the Sam Houston and Texas quarter horse racing powers that bee should have disqualified all the horses with failed tests and let the others run for the purse money.
Sal says that it sounds like someone thinks like Sal.
TDN – Horsemen File Suit Against New Mexico Racing Commission
Bloodhorse – Angst – Other Than Medina Spirit, Oaks, Derby Day Horses Clear
I’ve been a fan, a bettor, a supporter and an advocate of horse racing for more than 40 years. Because the horse racing industry as a whole has turned the other cheek with respect to drug cheats, I’m ready to turn the page on horse racing — unless the leaders of the sport do what baseball and cycling have done to their cheating participants. They must punish the cheaters, and restore integrity and safety to the game.
“If those things don’t happen, at some point, there’s going to be a tipping point where the bettors say, ‘Wait a second, I’d rather bet on the NBA or I’d rather bet on football or I’d rather legally bet on golf, because these sorts of things don’t happen there.’ So I think the jury is still out where racing is right now.”
NY Post – Li – ‘51 GIANTS COME CLEAN – ADMIT TO SIGN-STEALING SCHEME
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige
Sal says that cheating in sports isn’t new it’s just more highly publicized these days.
Sal says that little Donald seems to suffer from inter alia SDS. Either SDS or penis envy over the dictatorial power that Roger Goodell wields over the NFL fiefdom. How else can you explain his compulsive obsession with being part of the inner workings of the NFL.
Ever since the NFL spurned his efforts to become an owner because his net worth didn’t meet their minimum requirements and let Donald crush his own upstart league little Donald has tried to obsequiously insinuate himself into NFL inner circles only to be continually spurned.
Sal says that we shouldn’t tarnish Robert Kraft’s and Bill Belichek’s reputations over an alleged bribery scheme, since there’s plenty of other tarnish for those two, but should look at the alleged bribery scheme as just another futile attempt by little Donald for acceptance in a group that just doesn’t want him and his sullied reputation.
Sal says that unless you want to get fooled again you gotta remember that what little Donald boasts that he can do and what little Donald can actually do are universes apart.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Sal says that the thoroughbred industry better start to look after its own interests and not wait for the US Feds with their changing with the wind politic agendas.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald Reagan
.
In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company
.
Sal says that the biggest problem with the Covid-19 crisis wasn’t the virus or the science, but the politics.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Garden and Gun – Tierney and Kim – Stadium-Quality Peanuts at Home
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – NO BOMBS DROPPED, ONLY CONFIDENT CONNECTIONS HEADING INTO BELMONT 153
TDN – Belmont S. Draw to Air June 1
TDN – Two-Day Special Wagers for Belmont Festival
TDN – Registration Open For Belmont Stakes Challenge
Bloodhorse – Essential Quality Fires Bullet in Last Pre-Belmont Work
Paulick Report – Willman – Hot Rod Charlie ‘Getting More And More Confident’ For Team O’Neill
Paulick Report – Rock Your World Connections Hoping To ‘Right The Ship’ In Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Rombauer Among Half-Dozen May 28 Workers for Belmont
Paulick Report – Velazquez To Ride Preakness Winner Rombauer In Belmont Stakes
Paulick Report – Courses Charted For Classic Runners-Up Mandaloun, Midnight Bourbon
TDN – Rebel’s Romance Readies for Belmont
Paulick Report – Pletcher Triumvirate Log Final Workouts For Belmont
Paulick Report – Campbell: Future Talk — Digital Horse Racing With ZED Run?
Paulick Report – Frank Mitchell – Bloodlines: Northern Dancer’s Small Stature And Long Shadow
Sal says that Frank Mitchell glosses over Rombauer’s female line bearing a strong resemblance to Medina Spirit’s sire line: the presence of Giant’s Causeway: Medina Spirit through his sire Protonico a son of Giant’s Causeway and Rombauer through his broodmare sire Cowboy Cal another son of Giant’s Causeway. Neither Protonico nor Cowboy Cal are in the same league as the too early gone Shamardal but Protonico has most of his stallion career ahead of him and Cowboy Cal disappeared to South Korea.
Sal says that there is a son of Giant’s Causeway standing in Alberta at Highfield Stock Farm: Feb Biz.
Bloodhorse – Stallion Register – Fed Biz
Garden and Gun – Severson – How to Make Perfectly Fried Catfish
Bloodhorse – WinStar Stallion Laoban Dies Aged 8
Paulick Report – Luicci – Fixed Odds Wagering At Monmouth Moves One Step Closer To Reality
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
“They’re not going to change their minds,” he said. “The rule comes from higher people than people at the racetrack. This is coming from the government. It’s about animal protection. What they should realize is that this will be the first racetrack in the USA to do this, but it’s eventually going to happen at all of them. It will happen in time.”
TDN – Bill Finley – Jersey Trainer Schistl Says Whip Fuss is Much Ado About Nothing
Sal says that Schistl is right when he says that the rule comes from higher people than people at the race track. But it’s not the government. The impetus comes from the evolving society where 95% of the population you’re trying to attract to the sport have never got up at the crack of dawn and opened the window to the smell of fresh hay and fermenting manure.
The Ringer – Harvilla – How SoundScan Changed Everything We Knew About Popular Music
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams
Paulick Report – Knicks Go Re-Routed To Met Mile
Sportico – Coffey – Raiders Stadium Again Needs Backup Funds to Meet Debt Payment
Atlantic – Easterbrook – How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers
The Score – Gold-Smith – Gretzky leaves Oilers, reportedly taking TV job with TNT
Yahoo Sports – Williams – TNT reportedly courting Wayne Gretzky to fill ‘Barkley-like’ analyst role
Chicago Tribune – Milbert – GRETZKY A GREAT ONE AMONG THOROUGHBRED OWNERS, TOO
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Charles Barkley
Bloodhorse – Kieckefer – Block Sees Chance for Arlington to Continue Racing
Sal says that with CDI deliberately deciding not to pick up the option for a casino at Arlington that would have competed with a nearby CDI facility and allowing the racing aspect of Calder to be decoupled CDI appears to be acting in the best interests of their shareholders rather than the best interests of horse racing.
Sal’s eponymous track located in the heart of White Sox country never had the elite aura of Arlington with its Million and Beverly D, but Hawthorne’s owners were and are more interested in the horse racing industry than CDI or in the casino license that comes with it. Unless something monumental happens in the next few months the Cubbie fans who want to watch a live horse race will have to head on south into White Sox country. Sal says that maybe the Illinois thoroughbred owners, trainers and other participants should give Frank or Belinda or Andy and Bobby a call and see if Arlington and its casino license can be salvaged.
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Can State Government Pressure on CDI Save Arlington?
Sal says that you all know why that’s one’s there.
The universe doesn’t owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn’t owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
Richard Dawkins
Bloodhorse – Charles Scheeler Elected Chair of HISA Board
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Richard Dawkins
Harnesslink – Ontario Racing – Where is the money?
Standardbred Canada – Plans For New Saskatchewan Track
Saskatoon CTV News – Young – First Nation plans to open new horse race track north west of Saskatoon
Sportico – Crupi – Media Execs Rein in Talk of Sports’ Exodus from TV to Streaming
BarDown – A battle of flow is brewing down in Jacksonville
Sal says that the Battle should include Steve.
Hawthorne Sal
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.