Aug 172022
 

Horse Racing Alberta 2021 Annual Report

Horse Racing Alberta 2011 Annual Report

Handle – 2011 – $ 149,403,744 2010 $ 151,747,286

Handle – 2021 -$81,542.017 2020  $86,278,992

Sal says the 2011 report lets one gauge just how brutally the Captain and Tenille and the Undertaker have managed and promoted horse racing in Alberta.

The minions at Horse Racing Alberta may blame Covid for the brutally dismal 2020 and 2021 numbers, but 2018 and 2019 weren’t much better.

Handle – 2019 $99,262,303 2018 $108,029,809

Sal says that horse racing in Alberta’s in a very serious deKlein and the efforts of the minions at Horse Racing Alberta have exacerbated the situation rather than improved racing.

Cutting the Budget

Sal says that if any business in the world was operated the same way that Horse Racing Alberta has operated and continues to be operated, they’d shut their doors in a heartbeat.

America’s Best Racing – Johnson – Buckpasser: The Hall of Fame Racehorse With a Nonchalant Attitude


Bloodhorse – Radio, TV, Streaming Schedule for Busy Week of Racing

Sal says not to expect much press coverage of the Canadian Derby this year

OilersNation – Brownlee – Off The Top of my Head


Esquire – Weiss – The Martyr

Times Union – Liberatore – Horse trainer Chad C. Brown pushed woman down stairs, tried to choke her, prosecutor says

Horse Racing Nation – Chad Brown is arrested, accused of choking woman at his home

Bloodhorse – Crosby – Brown Arrested on ‘Obstruction of Breathing’ Charge

Sal says it will be very interesting to see how the New York authorities treat a local boy in comparison to how they treated the California bad boy Bob Baffert.

Sal says that one expects the court of public stupidity to convict or acquit Brown based on nothing other than gossip, supposition and their own need to get their own voices heard, but Sal says that the judge’s comments were entirely inappropriate.

Judge Francine Vero said she did not believe Brown’s story, saying, “This court is not in the business of accusing domestic-violence victims.”

The judge should have stuck to the task at hand, made her decision on bail, set a new date and if she was going to say anything about Brown’s lawyers comments told Brown to save it for the trial.

Breathe (In The Air)

Times Union – Lyons – Two horse grooms arrested on drug charges at Saratoga Race Course

Sal says the continuing soapbox opera As The Backstretch Turns keeps playing the same as it ever was.

Front Office Sports – Penn To Acquire Rest of Barstool Sports

Front Office Sports – Poindexter – Sports Betting Companies Scrutinize Spending Ahead of NFL Season

But if Kenney wants to blame someone for his party’s apparent embrace of Smith’s toxic populism, he ought to look in the mirror. He was the one who introduced this brand of politics to Alberta, after all. He built his reputation and his brand around being forever in conflict with Ottawa, and aggressively contemptuous of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He proudly talked up his “fight back” strategy, which was far more focused on throwing punches eastward than bringing resources and funding west. He struck a “Fair Deal” panel that travelled across the province amplifying and validating the grievances that some Albertans had against Ottawa, and raised false hopes about changing the equalization program he knew were impossible to deliver. In all of this sowing, he apparently never understood what he would eventually reap.

Canada’s Nation Observer – Fawcett – Jason Kenney’s Frankenstein

Cutting the Budget

Bloodhorse – Wilkin – Nest, Secret Oath Ready to Rumble in the Alabama

Paulick Report – Nevills – Two Weeks To The Travers: Rich Strike, Reed Settle In To Life In Saratoga

National Post – Mundie – How much hockey is too much? Viewership for Canada’s sport on the decline, poll finds

TDN – FTHA and 1S/T Racing Partner on Safety Equipment Voucher Program for Exercise Riders

Sports Business Journal – SBJ Unpacks: CFP discusses football breakaway from NCAA

Sal says that thoroughbred Racing in North America will never have a league type structure, but maybe the major tracks could work together for the benefit of racing.

LA Times – Column: LeBron James’ new contract guarantees one thing — more Lakers mediocrity

The Ringer – Devine – LeBron’s New Extension Quells Some Concerns, but Raises Others

Garden and Gun – Copeland – The Popeyes Founder’s Other Fried Chicken

Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Carr – Baaeed Cements Legendary Status in Stunning Style

Racing Post – Scargill – ‘He’s as good as the greats’ – Baaeed cements legendary status in stunning style

Horse Racing Nation – Baaeed maintains perfect record, runs away to win Juddmonte

Racing Post – Burn – Baaeed skin condition leads to William Haggas being fined by BHA

Sloop John B

TSN – CP – Filly Moira installed as early 5-2 favourite for $1M Queen’s Plate

Edmonton Sun – LILLEY: The full story behind Lisa’s ‘LaFlamme out’ at CTV National

Horse Racing Nation – Ryan – Del Mar 2022: Who are the hot and cold jockeys?

Horse Racing Nation – Macatangay – Saratoga 2022: Nest can dominate Secret Oath in Alabama

Alabama Song

Horse Racing Nation – Ward – Derby Alumni: 5 continue preparations for Travers

Toronto Star – Warnica – Waiting out delays while gambling and high? Agency that runs Pearson eyes bringing cannabis, gaming to airport as it struggles to recover losses

Racing Post – Prize-money: how Britain has been left trailing by the rest of the world

CBC – Hudson’s Bay to resurrect discount retail chain Zellers

Zellers

When The Music’s Over

The writing on the wall is only easy to read in hindsight. At the time, it’s all a blur. I approach the wiliest of pop provocateurs, Bill Drummond of the KLF, an act that, at the height of their success in 1992, disbanded and then deleted their entire back catalogue with the sole intent of swiftly disappearing up their own fundament. When I ask him what an artist should do once the spotlight swings elsewhere, he writes me a play – or rather, two, “in case the first one’s shite”, he helpfully explains. The plays reference Prince and 80s hitmaker Nik Kershaw, and the way both leaned on the public’s endless appetite for nostalgia in order to stretch out their careers. Drummond prefers a more flamboyant gesture: the very moment any singer fails to crack the Top 40, they should offer themselves up for sacrifice. “The failed pop singer will be given the choice of a noose hanging from a gallows or a razor-sharp guillotine,” he writes.

The Guardian – Duerden – ‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on

I Don’t Like Mondays

Sports Illustrated – Beck – The Special Bond Between Bill Russell and Adam Silver

CTV News – Canadian Derby goes Saturday

In The Air Tonight

Clutch Points – Mistretta – Wayne Gretzky sued for $10 million over alleged weight loss gum lie

Sal says that you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time to lose weight.

TSN – Hockey Canada: Summer, increased scrutiny to blame for small crowds at world juniors

Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Escobar Request to Stay Delaware Suspension is Denied

I Shall Be Released

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Sandpit: nothing less than a four-legged Robert Redford

TDN – Thornton – HISA Appeal to be Argued Aug. 30; Judge Denies Contempt Motion

Paulick Report – ‘This Is What I Love To Do’: Andie Biancone Pulling Double Duty At Del Mar

Southern Living – Southern Rice Pudding Deserves a Comeback

The Ringer – Baumann – When Will We See the Next American Formula One Driver?

The Ringer – McAtee – The ‘House of the Dragon’ Cheat Sheet

Immigrant Song


Hawthorne Sal

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