1. Simplification, Antonio Sano, John Velazquez, 6-1
2. Creative Minister, Kenny McPeek, Brian Hernandez Jr., 10-1
3. Fenwick, Kevin McKathan, Florent Geroux, 50-1
4. Secret Oath, D. Wayne Lukas, Luis Saez, 9-2
5. Early Voting, Chad Brown, Jose Ortiz, 7-2
6. Happy Jack, Doug O’Neill, Tyler Gaffalione, 30-1
7. Armagnac, Tim Yakteen, Irad Ortiz Jr., 12-1
8. Epicenter, Steve Assmussen, Joel Rosario, 6-5
9. Skippylongstocking, Saffie Joseph Jr., Junior Alvarado, 20-1.
Bloodhorse – Meet the Field for the 147th Preakness Stakes
Brisnet – Get to know the 2022 Preakness Stakes contenders
TDN – Preakness LIVE Art/Music Festival to Highlight Preakness Weekend Events
Bloodhorse – Ralenkotter – Pre-Preakness Party a Significant Fundraiser for TAA
TDN – ABR Preakness Kick-Off Party to Benefit Aftercare
Paulick Report – Pimlico Will Serve Up Preakness Week’s Traditional Alibi Breakfast Thursday, May 19
Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
TDN – DJ Pauly D to Headline 2022 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival Entertainment
samedi 21 mai
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
Stronach, mind you, is no nostalgist chasing the resurrection of the grand old days. Rather, TSG, branded as 1/ST in thoroughbred racing circles, is chasing new fans, not to mention a fresh generation of bettors, and the core pillars of her approach will be on display, for both racing fans and industry players, in north Baltimore for this weekend’s 147th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.
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Think of it as Lollapalooza meets horses meets gambling. Once the hoopla dies down, the hope is that a few of those who came for the party might think about coming back again for the ponies, perhaps in person, but more likely online to place some more bets.
“Some of the things that Belinda is trying to do, time will tell if they work, but you have to give her credit, because she is bringing a new audience to our events and she is trying something new, and that can only be seen as a positive,” said Craig Bernick, an influential thoroughbred owner and heir to the Alberto-Culver fortune of Alberto V05 hair-care fame.
Financial Post – O’Connor – Belinda Stronach’s big bet on the sport of kings
Sports Business Journal – SBJ Unpacks: Preakness Stakes has hefty dose of new brand partners
Spotify – Songs to Give You Chills
Sal says that John Goodham, Kevin James or George Wendt would be excellent choices for Eric Reed for the Rich Strike movie.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
Snoopy
RollingStone – Greene and Grow – Inside Taylor Hawkins’ Final Days as a Foo Fighter
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss
Glamorade – Shawah – Taylor Hawkins’ Fellow Drummers Incensed Over Report About His Death
CNN – Melas – Pearl Jam drummer walks back comments about Taylor Hawkins
Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
Bloodhorse – Bobo on Journey With Preakness Contender Simplification
Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
Bruce Lee
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Preakness Show Goes On Without Kentucky Derby Winner
Bloodhorse – Happy Jack, Fenwick Take First Spins Around Pimlico
Paulick Report – Nevills – The Haiku Handicapper Presented By NYRA Bets: 2022 Preakness Stakes
#1 – Simplification
Outran Derby odds
Clunkers are a rarity
Why should that stop now?
#2 – Creative Minister
Supplemented in
McPeek’s got him dialed in
Is he good enough?
#3 – Fenwick
His graded debut
Swatted down, Mutombo-like
Facing a class gap
#4 – Secret Oath
Imposing Oaks win
Quieted distance concerns
Must be acknowledged
#5 – Early Voting
Smart to skip Churchill
But he still got caught going
Shorter than today
#6 – Happy Jack
When he can finish
Within 10 from the winner
I’ll pay attention
#7 – Armagnac
Can’t pronounce his name
Collmus won’t have to, either
When they hit the stretch
#8 – Epicenter
Ran a winning race
But did that disappointment
Empty his gas tank?
#9 – Skippylongstocking
Something positive:
He has a fun name to say
And that’s all I’ve got
Prediction
If his blade’s still sharp,
Epicenter is the best
Four, five fill the tri
It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.
J.R.R. Tolkien
ESPN – Betting guide for the 2022 Preakness Stakes
TDN – Dinner Party Goes Through Cox, Maker
TDN – Bossinankis – Preakness Full Circle Moments
Bloodhorse – Hovdey – Preakness Strains Under Pressure to Change
TDN – Should the Triple Crown Be Changed? Veteran Industry Participants Weigh In
Sports Business Journal – Fischer – No-show rate at Raiders games over 14% in 2021
Et tu, Brute
Julius Caesar
The Atlantic – Tiffany – Why the Internet Hates Amber Heard
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman
Sal says that the best solution for Heard and Depp would be for both to shut the fuck up.
Sports Illustrated – Scott – SEC Publicly Reprimands Jimbo Fisher, Nick Saban Following Public Feud
Sal says let’s cut the hypocrisy out of college sports and call a spade a spade. The “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””student””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””” athletes are nothing more than poorly paid professionals who generate billions of dollars for the universities and millions for the coaches and peanuts for the elephants. Time to share the wealth.
Ma’am? What kind of test are we having today? Multiple choice? Good! I choose not to take it.”
Peppermint Patty
Bloodhorse – Crosby and Byron King – Super Quick, Lady Scarlet Make the Grade at Pimlico
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Pizza Bianca Punches Ticket to Royal Ascot
TDN – Pizza Bianca Punches Royal Ascot Ticket in the Hilltop
The dragon teaches you that if you want to climb high, you have to do it against the wind.
Chinese Proverb
Bloodhorse – Hammonds – Interstatedaydream Drives Home in the Black-Eyed Susan
TDN – Bossinakis – ‘Interstate’ On Top in Black-Eyed Susan
The Atlantic – Ahamed – America Has Never Really Understood India
Bloodhorse – Perez – Horse Racing a Deep-Rooted Passion for Alex Bregman
Bloodhorse – First Captain Rallies to Win Pimlico Special
Paulick Report – First Captain Rallies Late, Edges Pletcher Duo In Pimlico Special
TDN – Carasso – First Captain Turns In ‘Special’ Performance at Pimlico
TDN – Bossinakis – Lady Scarlet Pounces Late in Miss Preakness
Paulick Report – Mo Donegal Tops Pletcher Trainees Pointing To Belmont Stakes Festival
How did it get so late so soon?
vendredi 20 mai
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
Isaac Asimov
TDN – Bossinakis – Adare Manor Heads Black-Eyed Susan
TDN – Bossinakis – Happy Soul Looks to Make Amends in Miss Preakness
Sal says that the Black-Eyed Susan day card is a better bettor’s card than Preakness Day.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Scargill – Illegal Betting ‘Major Threat to Integrity of Racing’
Sal says that illegal betting and grey market betting are a much larger threat to racing’s bottom line than to racing’s integrity.
TDN – Bossinakis – Preakness Alibi Breakfast Highlights Thursday
Bloodhorse – Crosby – The Fantastical Tale of Preakness Longshot Fenwick
Paulick Report – Rosario: Epicenter ‘Ran A Great Race’ Despite Kentucky Derby Defeat
TDN – Should the Triple Crown Be Changed? We Ask Trainers to Weigh In
Bloodhorse – Rich Strike Back at Churchill Training for Belmont
TDN – Mandatory Jockey Breeding Rights Discussed at CHRB Meeting
Sal says that’s a seductive headline.
TDN – Thornton – California’s ‘Lens of Equity’ Could Benefit Jockeys
The Ringer – Sayles – Chasing the Horse
Sal says that yes Virginia it’s okay to put oatmilk on your oatmeal.
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – At Pimlico, Laurel, Redevelopment Is Still a Year Away
Sal says that Prince Charles should shut his fucking mouth about Canada’s darker past when he’s from the country with one of the worst colonial records. When the fucking asshole opens his mouth like that Sal says it’s high time that Canadians told the royalty to fuck off and declared Canada a republic free from any British influence.
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity’s power.
Lionel Shriver
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
Scientific American – Can’t Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles’ Success
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman
National Post – Colby Cosh: Jason Kenney’s demise as Alberta premier was inevitable
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
jeudi 19 mai
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Paulick Report – Scheinman – Pierre And George Lorillard: Kings Of The Preakness In The Gilded Age
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Weather Looms a Hot Topic for Preakness, Pimlico
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
TDN – Epicenter, Early Voting Take First Tour of Old Hilltop
Bloodhorse – Epicenter, Early Voting Get Acquainted With Pimlico
Paulick Report – Preakness Notes: Epicenter Capable Of ‘Brilliance,’ Skippy ‘Improving’ Each Race
TDN – Graham Motion Talks Importance of Taking Shots On Writers’ Room
Southern Living – McDonald – 30 Quotes That Remind Us Why Southern Manners Are So Important
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’. Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.
Sal says that although he tries to be as environmentally friendly as possible he hopes that the UCPs find some fresh blood and stop recycling the has-been retreads.
Sal says that the dumbest thing may have been naming the band Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. Sal says changing the name to Paul Kelly and the Messengers was one of the least dumbest things.
Serious Eats – Lopez-Alt – Why Does Pepperoni Curl? | The Food Lab
Mashed – Pasche – The Real Reason Some Pepperoni Curls When Cooked
Mel – VanHooker – Does Every State Have Its Own Pizza Style Now? A Very Tasty Investigation
Mashed – Kelly – The Untold Truth Of Little Caesars
The Ringer – Nelson – Oh, What a Difference a Year Has Made for Phil Mickelson
mercredi 18 mai
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
Century Mile – Facebook- Admission Announcement
Showpass – Century Mile Admission
Sal says that many of the very few remaining live race fans in Alberta will make their announcement by staying home, ordering pizza delivery, drinking their own Growler of craft beer and wagering on a grey area offshore account with 00.00% of the betting revenue going to the track and the horsemen and 00.00% of the food and beverage revenue going to the track.
Sal says that tickets to the minor league baseball games in Edmonton, Calgary, Okotoks, Spruce Grove, Sylvan Lake and other cost peanuts. But once you’re in the gate a couple of $9.99 beers and a dog and some peanuts and pretty quick you’ve spent half a c-note.
Sal says that’s what you call marketing.
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Light Morning at Pimlico for Preakness Starters
Champs of The Track – Bartholomew – Rich Strike: The Underdog Kentucky Derby Win that Racing Needed
The New Yorker – Elie – Nobody Plays Guitar Like Bill Frisell
Bloodhorse – Cox Fined, Suspended for Bute Overage in Stephen Foster
Brisnet – Scully – Ethereal Road, Old Homestead top Preakness Day undercard dirt stakes
Bloodhorse – Ethereal Road Aims for Redemption in Sir Barton Stakes
TDN – Cazoo Derby Features Desert Crown Among 21 Remaining
Front Office Sports – Gentrup – Federal Funds Find Way to Auto and Horse Race Tracks
It doesn’t matter which side of the tracks you’re from, the train still rolls the same.
Robert M. Hensel
As for coaching the Leafs, possibly my hockey ignorance would produce better results than we’ve seen since Paul Martin was prime minister … or Lester Pearson. But on politics, I can state firmly that if they’re telling lies so boring you can’t get mad, and you vote for them anyway, you’re ready to write “How Not To Be A Citizen” and sell a million copies. Even if you don’t have a cool name.
National Post – John Robson: Winning ways to achieve mediocrity in sports and politics
Los Angeles Times – Vognar – How a father-son battle spawned Hollywood’s classic monsters
The Ringer – Thompson – The Mystery of America’s Missing Baby Formula
SportsNet – Report: Arizona State can kick Coyotes out for poor behaviour
mardi 17 mai
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post
Front Office Sports – Spike Lee Returns as Mars Blackmon for Nike’s 50th Anniversary
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Favored Epicenter Draws Post 8 for Preakness
ESPN – AP – Epicenter opens as 6-5 favorite for Preakness without Rich Strike
TDN – Epicenter Draws Eight as 6-5 Preakness Favorite; Secret Oath Gets 4-Hole
Brisnet – Adare Manor among baker’s dozen in Black-Eyed Susan
Sal says that speaking of baker’s dozens last Friday, May 13, 2022 Sal asked the young lady at one of the national doughnut purveyors if they were selling their doughnuts in a baker’s dozen on Friday the 13th. Sal says that the response he received was far too typical these days – I don’t know and I don’t care. Sal says that disdain would have been more appreciated.
Bloodhorse – Kentucky Derby Produces Windfall for Ontario Breeder
Canadian Thoroughbred – 147th Preakness; Niagara Falls’ Jeremia Rudan Living a Dream
Sal says that Fenwick has about as much chance of winning the Preakness as an 80-1 longshot in post 20 does of winning the Kentucky Derby.
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Burton – Frankie Dettori to ride Piz Badile in Derby at Epsom
Bloodhorse – The Jockey Club Publishes Fact Book Racing Chronicle
TDN – UK Quarterback Will Levis and Walker Hancock Join ‘Catching Up with Katie’
National Post – Rex Murphy: Don Cherry’s cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada
Southern Living – The Ultimate Oldies But Goodies Playlist for Your Next Road Trip
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
Peter Sellers
Front Office Sports – Women Joining Sports Betting Apps at Faster Rate Than Men
Canadian Thoroughbred – Horse Racing Could Be on Ontario’s iGaming Platforms This Summer
Sal says that Lawson probably told them that the reason that horse racing is late to the sports betting app party is that some dumb ass from Woodbine convinced the Federal government that horse racing should not have fixed odds wagering.
Sal says that if Jason Kenney wasn’t so busy trying to hang on to the power in Alberta that he lost because he was always too busy hanging onto power to run the province that maybe Alberta would have some competition in the online betting market including horse racing.
Sal’s reprising Phil:
What does the Undertaker do.
Sal says that a Smarties sharing block that comes wrapped in ecofriendly recyclable paper sounds like a pretty smart idea, but why. Smarties already come in a cardboard box that’s recyclable. Smarties are individual candies so sharing a few with friends and family is simple. Nestle can use the same natural colouring and sourcing for regular Smarties. But the real problem with Smarties in a chocolate block is how do you eat the red ones last.
Paulick Report – Watch: Flightline Learning To ‘Relax’ In Latest Drill Toward Met Mile
Sports Business Journal – Battle of Alberta headlines second round of NHL playoffs
Sal says that the most relieved person is Alberta is Jason Kenney as he’s hoping the series goes 7 games to distract the Alberta populace from his beleaguered leadership.
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group — that’s teamwork.
John Wooden
Sal says that maybe the reds are team players losing themselves in the chocolate to make the whole block great.
The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
The woman, who has a one-month-old child with Jeudy, told Judge Chantel Contiguglia that she did not feel threatened during the incident and made contact with authorities to “monitor the situation,” The Denver Post reported.
Sports Illustrated – AP – Jerry Jeudy’s Girlfriend Asks for Case Against Him to Be Dismissed
Sal says that if she didn’t feel threatened and contacted the police to monitor the situation, then the police should send her a monitoring fee bill and the Courts should send her a bill for the court costs.
TSN – Golden Knights fire head coach DeBoer
Sal says that Las Vegas needs a salary cap juggling contortionist more than Barry Trotz.
I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating. I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.
Charles Barkley
Toronto SportsNet – Fox – Six big questions the Maple Leafs must answer this off-season
Sal says that for a split infinitive of a second Sal almost felt for the Leafs getting the Tavares goal called back on a shadowy interference call, but then Sal remembered that in western Canada we are so incessantly inundated with Maple Laff drivel by Toronto Sports Network and Toronto SportsNet that as far as the Maple Laffs are concerned, Calgarians would rather cheer for the Oilers and Edmontonians would rather cheer for the Flames than for the Maple Laffs.
Sal heard that the Maple syrup shortage is cause by the Maple trees starting to choke like the Leafs.
Why should I put a bunch of Cadillacs on the ice, when I can sell out with a bunch of volkswagens.
Harold Ballard
National Post – Warmington – Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner carjacked at gunpoint in Toronto
Sal says lets hope that’s not a disgruntled Leafs fan trying to force a trade.
The Ringer – Murdock – The Suns Have Questions to Answer Before They Can Rise Again
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
lundi 16 mai
Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.
Lionel Shriver
Bloodhorse – Grade 2 Winner Un Ojo Will Not Run in the Preakness
Bloodhorse – The Jockey Club Publishes Fact Book Racing Chronicle
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Brown, Klarman Hope for Deja Vu With Early Voting
Bloodhorse – Shake Em Loose to Skip Preakness
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Rennie – Modern Games Victorious in French Two Thousand Guineas
TDN – Epicenter Sitting on Go for Preakness
CENTURY DOWNS seeks anthem singers
TDN – LNJ Foxwoods Re-Focuses Stable
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – LNJ Foxwoods Announces Southern California Departure
Southern Living – Denenberg – 50 Bread Jokes and Puns That Definitely Aren’t Crumby
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Taste – The Utopian Promises and Novelty Cheese of a Discount Grocery Store
The New Yorker – Owen – The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Canada’s National Observer – Fawcett-Atkinson – When wheat never dies
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Milnes – Kelleway Continues Ukrainian Rescue Mission
Paulick Report – McCarthy: Breakthrough Grade 1 Win In Man o’ War Felt Like Early Birthday Gift
ESPN – Lopez – Grant Williams leads Boston Celtics past Milwaukee Bucks in convincing Game 7 victory
Sal says that the gods of playoff basketball pissed all over the Milwaukee Bucks and their fans for the fans abysmal behaviour commemorating a game six loss to the Celtics with a shootout at the No K corral.
There is no normal life, there’s just life. Get on with it.
Doc Holliday
Garden and Gun – Blount Jr.Roy Blount Jr. Grabs Life by the Collards
WJZ – Pam Smith – 5 Must-Read Books By Baltimore Authors
Front Office Sports – Perez – Crypto Crash Could Impact Pace of New Sports Deals
le dimanche 15 mai
I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
Babe Ruth
Bloodhorse – Rich Strike to Bypass Preakness, Point for Belmont
TDN – Derby Winner Rich Strike To Bypass Preakness
Horse Racing Nation – Flatter: What does Rich Strike’s exit from Preakness really mean?
Sal says that when the gods of horse racing hand you a gift horse you should not look the gift horse in the mouth ere you may call the wrath of the gods of horse racing upon yourself.
Borders Racing is owned by Alberta’s Hazel Bennett, who has been raising and racing Thoroughbreds for several decades and she races in her home province as well as Ontario and in the U.S.
Rondure was making his first start as a 3-year-old, first with Lasix and making his first start for Vassilieva. The Borders Racing horses had been trained by Dan Vella for many years and Rondure had two deceptively pleasing runs for Vella last year as a juvenile.
The son of Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow (Awesome Again) from Bennett’s mare Carat Weight (Trajectory), who was foaled at Susan Foreman‘s farm in Orangeville, was prepped this past winter at CamHaven Farm in Caledon this winter.
He is the second foal to race for Carat Weight whom Bennett purchased from breeder Richard Day for $14,046 (US) at the CTHS Ontario yearling sale in 2011 through consignor Beth Hancock. Carat Weight is from the mare Simply Precious,, a stakes placed dam of stakes winner Bear’s Gem and stakes placed Peggy O.
Canadian Thoroughbred – Morrison – Woodbine Saturday: Rondure Rolls Into Queen’s Plate Picture
TDN – Bill Finley – Fixed-Odds Era Begins at Monmouth
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Front Office Sports – Poindexter – Sports Betting Revenue Hit Record-Setting $4.3B in 2021
Quanta – Strogatz – Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
CNN – Poindexter – First image of supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy revealed
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra
Cygnus X-1 – Book One – The Voyage
National Post – Amadike – Giant asteroid set to make close approach to Earth
Taste – Quittner – There’s No Brownie Like a Cosmic Brownie
Paulick Report – Joe Clancy Honored With 2022 Old Hilltop Award
TDN – Smith, MacAdam To Be Honored At Alibi
Horse Racing Nation – Elbadwi – Top rider Prat begins a full-time presence at Belmont Park
Sal says that D Wayne Lukas is looking for history to repeat itself.
Paulick Report – Preakness Notes: Armagnac Newest Contender, Simplification Thriving, Zandon Out
Bloodhorse – Secret Oath on Track for Preakness, Early Voting Works
TDN – Early Voting Puts in Final Preakness Prep
TDN – Epicenter, Secret Oath Confirmed for Preakness
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ESPN – Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Sonny Leon serving 4-day suspension
TDN – Petrunyak – Another Sonny Day at Belterra Park
Brisnet – Scully – We the People sharp in Peter Pan romp
TDN – Constitution’s We the People Takes Flight in Peter Pan
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.
John Wooden
Sports Illustrated – Beck – Does the NBA Have a $@&!*% Problem?
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
The Ringer – Ahlman – The Perfect Place to Drop One F-bomb in Every MCU Movie
TSN – CP – Cheverie helping speed up timeline on NHL’s first female coach
ESPN – Wyshynski – New York Islanders fire coach Barry Trotz after missing playoffs
Aren’t all coaches just interim coaches.
Kenny Schinkel
The Hockey News – Richardson – Who Replaces Barry Trotz as Islanders’ Head Coach?
Sal says that you’ll know that females have arrived in the upper echelons of pro sports management and coaching when they start to get fired and recycled.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – Simplification First to Arrive Ahead of Preakness
Baltimore Sun Journal – AP – Graves – Rich Strike’s team considering Preakness options after upset
Bloodhorse – $100K Trainer Bonus Returns for Preakness Weekend
Bloodhorse – Un Ojo, Simplification Pointing to Preakness Stakes
AndScape – Tinsley – For Allen Iverson, it was never just about ‘practice’
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
Confucius
Horse Racing Nation – Flatter – Reed, Rich Strike regroup and look ahead at Lexington farm
CTV News – Rosen – ‘An incredible story’: The Manitoba connection to the Kentucky Derby winner
TDN – Seattle Slew License Plate Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
TDN – Derby, Oaks Post-Race Tests Clear
I love profanity, but I think if it’s used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it’s more effective when it’s dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.
Katie Aselton
Edmonton Journal – Garth Brooks adds new opening night show in Edmonton, June 24
Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa
Washingtonian – The Untold Story of the White House’s Weirdly Hip Record Collection
The Globe and Mail – Singing bye-bye to Don McLean’s American Pie
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Echo Zulu Targets Acorn; Likely to Focus on Sprints
Paulick Report – Golden – Yakteen Regrouping After Kentucky Derby Defeats Of Taiba, Messier
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
The Guardian – Belton – ‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots
Sal says he’s waiting to see the drone weed killers plying the sky like Snoopy and Billy Bishop.
There’s no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don’t really have anything to say.
Snoopy
DRF – Rampellini – Oaklawn using recently completed meet as a template for next season
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
Charles Barkley
Sal says that the Los Angeles Lakers position should be advertised truthfully – Assistant coach to Coach and GM Lebron James.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
Sal says same problem in Phillie as in LaLaLand – only 1 ball.
Paulick Report – HISA Reportedly To Delay Implementation Of Racetrack Shoeing Rules
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Trader Nicks Lands Longshot Mare in Gold Strike
The Bitter Southerner – Kessler – The Kitchen That Keeps on Giving
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Globe and Mail – MacDonald and Moore – The highway that disappeared
Front Office Sports – Kuc – Under Armour Unveils Plans For Global Headquarters In Baltimore
The Ringer – Curtis and Shoemaker – Instant Reactions to Tom Brady Signing With Fox
Sports Illustrated – Traina – Tom Brady Joining Fox Sports: Winners, Fallout, Analysis
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken
Sal says that professional sports teams should check to see what music and books their prospective coaches and GMs listen to and read, music especially. Sal says that sometimes the stage just isn’t big enough.
Sal says that it must have been a slow news day in Washington for such drivel to hit the press. Meghan Markle is a mediocre actor at best and social media influencer at worst who got into a bitch fight with a more powerful bitch got pushed off the stage and came running home with her tail between her legs.
Markle makes demented Donald look like a mediative conciliator.
Sal says that if you can’t find a word that fits make one up.
The Globe and Mail – Elon Musk says he prefers ‘less divisive’ candidate than Donald Trump in 2024
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
The Ringer – Belloni and Fennessey – Does Marvel Have a Quality Problem?
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Ringer – Devine – Jimmy Butler Lets the Sixers Know They Picked the Wrong Guy
To me, the ugliest sight in the world is an empty dog dish!
Snoopy
Radio Free Europe – So. Central Rain
The Ringer – Harvilla – The Jack Harlow Problem Isn’t Black or White
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
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CENTURY DOWNS facebook post seeks anthem singers coming soon to the mile. Hot rumour is that in order to charge fans a ridiculous $10 admission fee, some musical entertainment must be provided.(musical ride n/a)
Candidates shortlist
1. Trainers: Rod Cone, Dave Nicholson, Kenny Tingle
2. Officials: Yves Turcotte (french version) or Bob Garigan
3. Agents: Bob Fowlis or John Heath
4. Jockeys: any bug not riding the first race
5. Grooms: Fish Brother, Bear, Kelly Robinson
6. Gate crew: any member with a better voice than Turton
7. General public: any race fan wishing to avoid admission fee, Century winners Edge points, free non alcoholic beverage and entry to Canadian Idol