Sal called Phil last week and said that Phil was giving the Triple Crown too much emphasis and that Phil should be giving the tracks and the 3 year old Stakes races running each week more emphasis. Phil will accede to that request.
Sal also said that Phil was giving other sports too much emphasis over horse racing and horse racing should receive top billing in HolyBull.ca. Phil will accede to that request.
Sal also said that Raging Bull should receive more emphasis on Holybull.ca. Phil will accede to that request.
Sal also said a load of other Bullshit to Phil. Phil can only accede to so much at one time.
The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit.
P. J. O’Rourke
Bloodhorse – Johnson – 3 Stakes Plays to Wrap Up February
Medina Spirit Disqualified from 2021 Kentucky Derby
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
Horse Race Insider – Pricci – SURVIVAL: A BAD WEEK FOR BOTH THE REAL AND RACING WORLDS
February 26, 2022 3 Year Old Stakes
| Honeybee S GIII | $300,000 | 3 yo Fillies | 1 1/16 Miles | Dirt | |||
| Rebel S GII | $1,000,000 | 3 yo | 1 1/16 Miles | Dirt |
February 27, 2022 3 Year Old Stakes
| Island Fashion S | $75,000 | 3 yo Fillies | 1 Mile | Dirt | |||
| Mine That Bird Derby | $100,000 | 3 yo | 1 1/16 Miles | Dirt |
Covers – Zochodne – Alberta Sportsbook RFP Draws Interest From Major Canadian and U.S. Operators
Phil has a question:
Who is representing the Alberta horsemens’ interests in the Alberta sportsbook negotiations.
Bloodhorse – Angst – Dollars and Sense: Oregon Bill Concerning for ADWs
Bloodhorse – Rowe – Vancouver to Woodside Park Stud in Victoria
Phil has a question:
Is Vancouver moving to Victoria due to rising sea levels.
TSN – Fuhr’s career served as an inspiration to young players of colour
TSN – IIHF to hold World Juniors in August, Women’s U18s in June
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O’Rourke
Bloodhorse – 2022 Triple Crown Nominations
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Friday, May 6, 2022
TDN – Bill Finley – A Small Stable with Big Dreams, Eddie Barker Eyeing Derby
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – At 76, Barker Eyes First Derby With Shipsational
TDN – Derby Top 12 for February 23
Bloodhorse – King – Risen Star Top Three Rise, a New No. 1 in the ‘Dozen
Horse Racing Nation -Kentucky Derby 2022 Contenders
Racing Dudes – 2022 Kentucky Derby
Horse Racing Nation – Pimlico will offer 16 stakes on Preakness weekend
Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Secret Oath Says ‘Adios’ to Honeybee Rivals
TDN – One-Eyed Runner Pulls off Rebel Shocker
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – One-Eyed Un Ojo Registers 75-1 Upset in Rebel Stakes
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Godolphin Again Dominates Dubai Carnival: Derby Hope?
TDN – Pinehurst Takes Them Gate To Wire In Saudi Derby
Bloodhorse – Emblem Road Takes Saudi Cup for Home Team
Paulick Report – Newgrange, Barber Road Ready For Rematch In Saturday’s Rebel
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Baffert’s Undefeated Newgrange Tops $1M Rebel Field
Horse Racing Nation – Greer – How Baffert’s Kentucky Derby dispute affects the leaderboard
Horse Racing Nation – Ryan – Baffert’s Derby owners: No word on when horses may be moved
Phil has a question:
Is the question when or if.
TDN – CHRB Completes Medina Spirit Postmortem Review
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Secret Oath Stands Tall in Honeybee
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Straight Up G Tops Mine That Bird Derby Field
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Mandaloun, Midnight Bourbon, Mishriff Top Saudi Field
Bloodhorse – Gash – Tampa Bay Derby on Radar for Belgrade
Bloodhorse – A. P.’s Secret to Represent Joseph in Fountain of Youth
Horse Racing Nation – Brinkmeyer – Kentucky Derby 2022: Who’s in, out and on the points bubble?
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – ‘Japan Road to KY Derby’ Rolls on at Tokyo Racecourse
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I’ll jump out the window.
Buster Keaton
Paulick Report – ‘Improving’ Epicenter To Target Louisiana Derby; Zandon To Blue Grass
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Epicenter Posts Frontrunning Risen Star Win
TDN – Not This Time Colt Front and Center in Risen Star
Brisnet – Scully – Epicenter runs away with Risen Star
TDN – Carasso – Godolphin Homebred ‘Bursts’ Into Derby Discussion in Japan
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Combustion Takes Hyacinth on Japan Road to KY Derby
TDN – Bill Finley – The Week in Review: Though Defeated a Huge Race for Smile Happy
Brisnet – Hanson – Turnerloose takes to the dirt in Rachel Alexandra upset
Bloodhorse – Oser – Turnerloose Upsets Rachel Alexandra Stakes at 17-1
Paulick Report – Turnerloose, Geroux Team For 17-1 Rachel Alexandra Upset
TDN – Nyquist Filly Upsets Rachel Alexandra S.
TDN – La Crete Undergoes Successful Surgery
Bloodhorse – Gash – La Crete has Successful Surgery After Condylar Fracture
TDN – Shahama Makes The Grade In UAE Oaks
Bloodhorse – Crosby – Happy Soul Keeps Win Streak Alive in Dixie Belle
TDN – Happy Soul Coasts to Victory in Dixie Belle
New Yorker – Wood – Led Zeppelin Gets Into Your Soul
If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.
Wilson Mizner
Horse Racing Nation – Stahl – Medina Spirit is DQ’d from 2021 Kentucky Derby
TDN – Medina Spirit DQd From Derby, 90-Day Suspension for Baffert
Bloodhorse – CDI to Acquire Colonial Downs, Casinos in $2.4B Deal
Gambling Insider – Century Casinos to acquire Nugget Casino Resort in $195m deal
Paulick Report – With Hall Of Famer Cordero As Mentor, Apprentice Jose Gomez Making Splash At Big A
Bloodhorse – Canadian Graded Stakes Take Hit for 2022
The court pointed out that as a minor Valieva is a “‘protected person’ and that the WADA code says nothing about whether they’re subject to suspension”
Sports Business Journal – IOC dismisses notion of Russian doping culture amid Kamila Valieva case
FiveThirtyEight – Meyers – Russian Doping Isn’t The Only Problem In Figure Skating
Sports Illustrated – AP – Kamila Valieva Listed Two Legal Oxygen Boosters on Olympic Forms
Phil has a question:
What type of blinders are the IOC and the other governing body members wearing.
Do the IOC and the other governing bodies not understand the reason for out of competition testing.
How can you trust the cheating Russian sports bodies to self regulate.
How disgusting is it to be doping a 15 year old child, then using their status as a minor to circumvent the the anti-doping rules.
When did her doping start – age 12.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Phil has a question:
Whose worse – Maxwell and Epstein or Valieva’s coach and entourage.
FiveThirtyEight – Nerkar – The Winter Olympics Are A Wealthy Countries’ Club
WAYS TO SAVE THE MOVEMENT: In DC, Sally Jenkins wrote the Olympics “can be fixed, or at least repaired,” with three “basic reforms.” The IOC needs to “establish term limits” for its officials. It also needs to “establish a truth commission” — an independent body to “weigh rule changes that would make the IOC athlete-centered, and based on the underlying reality that elite Olympic-level competition does not build up young bodies but rather is a fundamentally unhealthily striving enterprise that breaks them down, physically and psychically.” The third reform would be to undertake a “total reconstruction of the anti-doping effort and wholesale reconsideration of the banned list.” WADA should be replaced with an “entirely independent body”
Sports Business Journal – Beijing Games leave marred legacy, hard questions for Olympic future
Sports Business Journal – Betting in New York yields massive early numbers
Phil has a question:
How much will sports betting on the XFL and USFL cut into thoroughbred racing’s handle.
Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
Sports Illustrated – Baccallieri – How ‘Sex and the City’ Sent Me Down a Fake Baseball Rabbit Hole
TDN – McGrath – This Side Up: The Cap of Good Hope
Bloodhorse – The Jockey Club Rescinds Mare Cap Rule
TDN – Sue Finley – Jockey Club Rescinds 140 Mare Cap Rule
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Breeders React to Jockey Club Mare Cap Rule Rescission
With A Little Help From My Friends
Bloodhorse – Angst – What’s Going On Here: Unknowns in Medina Spirit Case
Paulick Report – Adrienne Hall: USTA Should Focus On Harness Racing’s Real Problem
Bloodhorse – Downey – Judge Hears Arguments on HISA’s Constitutionality
TSN – CP – Villeneuve adds Daytona 500 start to storied racing career
If you ain’t trying to cheat a little, you ain’t likely to win much.
Richard Petty
Phil has a question:
Do you call it car doping when you tweak the engine specs.
Do you call it car doping when you tweak the body specs.
FiveThirtyEight – Dowsett – Who Refs The NBA’s Referees?
TDN – TDN Launches ‘Bettor Things With Joe Bianca’ Handicapping Podcast
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – KY Bill Takes Aim at Jockey Club Stallion Cap
TDN – Thornton – Bill Filed in Ky to Sidestep Stallion Cap
Bloodhorse – Gash – Improved Transparency Proposed at KHRC Meeting
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
P. J. O’Rourke
TDN – Thornton – KHRC Mum on Medina Spirit, Vows Future Transparency
DRF – Hegarty – Baffert appears before Kentucky stewards in hearing on betamethasone positive
TDN – Thornton – From ‘Collector’s Item’ to Derby Trail Kingpin
TDN – Fernando – Taking Stock: Quality of Baffert and Hancock with The Avengers
TwinSpires – Kelly – True Crime in Horse Racing: The Notorious Life of Arnold Rothstein
“I don’t think he is a cheater,” she said. “He might push the envelope, but he doesn’t cheat.”
TDN – Bill Finley – Horsemen’s Rep Says Vitali Meth Positive is Environmental Contamination
The Ringer – Serrano – This Oscars Photo Is Worth a Thousand Words
The Ringer – Seigel – ‘Oh Shit, This Is Real’
Phil’s Drink n a Flick
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorese
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Hovdey – Introducing the untold stories of the backstretch
Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Hayward – If we don’t clean up our act, we won’t have a sport
TDN – Letter to the Editor: The Real Reason for the Negativity
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
ESPN – Lunardi – 2022 NCAA Tournament Bracketology
Beware the Ides Of March
Soothsayer
ESPN – Purdum and Bearman – Mattress Mack vows to keep going after $9.5 million Super Bowl loss
ESPN – Purdum – High-stake battle rages over California sports betting push
The Bitter Southerner – Detweiler – The Auctioneer
In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
Johan Cruyff
SportsNet – Rosser – “MATTINGLY, SHAVE THOSE SIDEBURNS!”
The Ringer – Solak – The New Path to a Super Bowl
FiveThirtyEight – Paine – Good Luck Copying The Rams’ Championship Blueprint
Paine hit the right word, but no GM or coach ever acknowledges the role that luck plays in team building and winning seasons.
Phil has a question:
Does the I’m going to Disneyland not lose something when Disneyland’s only a bus ride away.
Was Bill Belichek smart or lucky when the Patriots drafted Tom Brady at 199.
RFO: Sebastian Aho. Consider that Aho is the Hurricanes’ leading scorer and already has 20 goals this season, for the sixth 20-goal campaign of his career. The only Carolina Hurricane who has ever had more? Ron Francis (10). Aho is just 24. He’s the present, and the future, of the franchise.
ESPN – Shilton – NHL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, plus reasons for optimism for every team
Phil has a question:
How many people in the Carolina organization would admit it was pure luck drafting Aho at the 35th selection overall in the 2015 NHL Draft where Boston had 3 first rounds picks and whiffed on them all except for Jake Debrusk who you’d politely describe as a journeyman and wants a trade out of Boston.
When will the NHL realize that raising its draft age will get the players into the league closer to their draft year making the draft more of a marketing tool.
Why is the NHL keeping its salary cap so flat when the major market teams like the Leaf, Habs, Bruins and Rangers and every Canadian team except the Senators would spend to the max.
When will the NHL owners realize that then NBA commissioner Stern sent Bettman to the NHL so that the NBA could prosper.
The Guardian – AP – Sarah Palin loses libel lawsuit against New York Times
Phil has a question:
Was Sarah Palin’s lawsuit about libel or keeping her fading name in the news.
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P.J. O’Rourke
Sports Business Journal – McCormick – Sounders working on new HQ, training center
I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.
Mel Brooks
Sports Business Journal – Cheerleader scandal marks latest black eye for Cowboys, NFL
The Ringer – Kelly – The Ringer’s 2022 NFL Draft Guide
Transparent communication to customers, let alone internal stakeholders, is a necessity to compete in the modern American sporting marketplace.
Racing is in competition with other sports, not just for attention, but more than ever, wagering dollars. And make no mistake, those other sports are doing a far better job of communicating with customers about rules, officiating and infractions than almost any organization in American racing.
Many across the American racing landscape wish to see a more communicative, transparent approach to adjudicating the sport at every level.
HISA’s leadership should take note sooner rather than later.
TDN – Pat Cummings – Letter to the Editor: Concerns About HISA
Phil M Stockmen
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CENTURY oval starts to heat up
CENTURY becomes HRA DIVISION RACING, how much of the $2.6 million of regulatory expenses will they get, as the deadwood still continues to get paid!!
CENTURY presents a 24 page document for signature when entering the grounds, ASHA presents it to membership, when will HBPA wake up??
CENTURY gets tough on TCO2 overages, with a class 3 and 60-180 day suspension, BC harness slap on the wrist of purse loss and 5k fine is a joke.
CENTURY drop in handle with a $5 million loss in live thoroughbred shown in canadian thoroughbred article $43 million to $38 million,. Harness pitching a NO HITTER on 12th race, Feb 9th with no winning combinations for ex/tri/super shows how mighty the sport has fallen in alberta.
STALL lists due Feb 22th, let’s hope projection of only 468 race horses isn’t reality, as the old owners and equity flee faster than the Chinook winds .