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I hung a WELCOME KEITH RICHARDS banner down here every day for forty years. Eventually I just gave up.
Esquire – What I’ve Learned – Satan
Southern Living – 14 Ways to Delight with Deviled Eggs
ESPN – Cimini – Jets’ Aaron Rodgers expects a ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ relationship with Zach Wilson
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington
Bloomberg – Matteucci – That Buzz on City Rooftops? Beekeeping Is Going Corporate
The less one thinks of crookedness and trickery in racing the more successful will be his handicapping.
Pittsburgh Phil
Bloodhorse – 2023 Kentucky Derby to be First With Penny Breakage
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington
Town and Country News – Blais – Westlock County wants province to allow for Camrose casino move
Bloodhorse – Wet Paint Installed as 5-2 Favorite in Kentucky Oaks
Bloodhorse – Angst – Disarm Completes Serious Derby Preparations With Breeze
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – Flying Connection Gives Fincher First Trip to Oaks
ESPN – Wyshynski – Why the Bruins flopped in the first round of the playoffs
SI:AM | – Gartland – The Bruins Blew It
TSN – CP – Panthers oust record-setting Bruins in OT in Game 7, will face Maple Leafs
Phil has a question :
Did the Bruins forget to tell the Panthers to read their press clippings.
How did the Turtle get under Ullmark’s skin so bad that Ullmark couldn’t stop a beach-ball with a sheet of plywood.
Whose fans have longer faces today, the Bruins or the Flames with not just the Turtle, but Sam Bennett shining in Florida.
Sports Net – Calgary Flames fire head coach Darryl Sutter
TDN – McGrath – Old College Pals Could Be Derby ‘Kings’
Sports Illustrated – Mannix – Steph Curry’s Game 7 Performance Keeps Warriors Dynasty Alive, for Now
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – Rocket Can Blasts Out Final Derby Drill for Mott
TDN – Rocket Can Drills for Derby
Paulick Report – Kentucky Derby Update: Rocket Can Breezes Five Furlongs In ‘Racehorse Time’
DRF – Welsch – 2023 Kentucky Derby Clocker Report: Rocket Can breezes five furlongs
The clocker is something like the scout in the army.
Pittsburgh Phil
DRF – Grening – Kentucky Derby: Mott hopes Rocket Can packing a surprise
The Dirty Horse Club – 2023 Derby – Head to Head with Brian, Gerard & Lisa
The Hustle – Dent – The secretary who helped uncover one of America’s strangest Ponzi schemes
The Dirt Horse Club – The Background Buzz
The Ringer – Solak – Six Takeaways From the 2023 NFL Draft
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Reincarnate to be Starlight’s 14th KY Derby Starter
Front Office Sports – McCarthy – MLB Changes Result In Improved Attendance, Viewership
Phil has a question:
When will churches introduce a pitch clock for sermons.
Garden and Gun – Henderson – How to Celebrate the Anniversary of Secretariat’s Triple Crown Win
Bloodhorse – Precious – Legislation Paving Path for Belmont Funding
TDN – Martini – Commissioner Dan Tops Keeneland April Sale
Paulick Report – Foaling Complications Claim Horse Of The Year Havre De Grace At Age 16
Southern Living – Beall – 38 Crowd-Favorite Kentucky Derby Party Recipes
Canada’s National Observer – Morris – How New Zealand’s pesky pigs became cash cows
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Mottershead – Opinion: Gambling White Paper Lacks Real Action
America’s Best Racing – Curry – A Beginner’s Guide to the Kentucky Derby
John Jeremiah Sullivan – Horseman Pass By_(Secretariat)
Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved – Hunter_S_Thompson
Brisnet – Get to know the 2023 Kentucky Derby contenders
Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
Kentucky Derby 150
Kentucky Derby 150 – Derby of A Lifetime Contest
Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone
2023 Preakness 148 Saturday May 20, 2023
DRF – Russo – Some Kentucky Derby hopefuls now setting their sights on Preakness
TDN – Preakness 148 Offers Limited Edition Ale
2023 Belmont Stakes Saturday June 10, 2023
Plan the Ultimate Kentucky Derby Party!
Kentucky Derby 149 Contest
One interesting pedigree note this year is a possible exacta box with Forte and Two Phil’s, and this may hit an emotional note more than a scientific one. Forte’s maternal grandsire Blame and Two Phil’s’ maternal great-grandsire Birdstone are both stamina-heavy stallions who probably caused more grief to racing fans than any horses in memory. To this day there still are tens of thousands of fans who refuse to watch Blame’s Breeders’ Cup Classic victory over their beloved Zenyatta, who was only inches from a 20-race undefeated career, and Birdstone’s Belmont Stakes victory over Smarty Jones, one of the most popular horses ever who was only yards away from being an undefeated Triple Crown winner, but was basically ganged up on by the jockeys of his main opponents. This is a totally believable exacta that would finally give these two horses (Birdstone is now actually pensioned) some well-deserved positive press.
Speaking of Two Phil’s, for those who feel his sire Hard Spun might be compromised at 10 furlongs, Hard Spun’s dam is by Turkoman, who ran one of the fastest Marlboro Cups ever and placed in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Jockey Club Gold Cup, and Travers, out of a half-sister to Belmont and Preakness winner Little Current, by English Derby winner Roberto.
Haskin’s Derby Rankings: How to Find a Derby Winner… With Your Eyes
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Forte Continues Reign Atop Derby Dozen
TDN – Thornton – TDN Derby Top 20: Cadence Quickens, Plot Thickens
XBTV – Jeff Siegel’s Kentucky Derby Deluxe Dozen (updated 4/14/23)
Paulick Report – Champagne – The Derby Bubble Presented By Kentucky-Breds: The Waiting Game Begins
Horse Racing Nation – Kentucky Derby 2023 Contenders
Horse Racing Nation – Shifman – Kentucky Derby 2023: Early full-field odds and analysis
Opening Day/Kentucky Derby Party Experience
Phil M Stockmen
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