2023 Belmont Stakes Saturday June 10, 2023
2023 Acorn Friday June 9, 2023
50th Anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown
Kentucky Derby 150
Kentucky Derby 150 – Derby of A Lifetime Contest
Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone
Montreal Gazette – Josh Freed: Wait! There were pictures in my passport?
The Ringer – O’Connor – Why Is LeBron James Threatening Retirement?
Phil has a question:
Does Lebron James know about the barn by Stony Plain that needs painting every fall.
Canadian Thoroughbred – Season 66 Underway at Assiniboia Downs
Phil has a question:
How much profit did Frank ever share with his employees.
The Ringer – The 40 Best TV Finales of the 21st Century, Ranked
Someday soon you’re gonna have families of your own, and if you’re lucky, you’ll remember the little moments like this that were good.
Tony Soprano
Bloodhorse – Precious – NYSGC Sets New Testing Timetable After Pletcher Case
TDN – New Venture to Bring Team Concept to Horse Racing, Launch Labor Day Weekend
Paulick Report – Graham Motion Earns $50,000 Preakness Weekend Trainer’s Bonus
Bloodhorse – Gash – Mendelssohn Filly Headlines Day 1 of Fasig-Tipton Sale
The Ringer – Siegel – This Is the End
Phil has a question:
What does PETA want horse racing to do.
What does PETA consider ethical treatment of animals – a glass of water for the hog on the way to the slaughterhouse.
Garden and Gun – Cooper – Out of the Box: Chef Chip Ulbrich Prefers This Classic Cornbread Mix
Front Office Sports – Rumsey – NBA Playoffs Providing Showcase For League’s Next Media Rights Deal
DRF – Gierkink – Assiniboia opens 2023 meet with betting incentives
SportsNet – Francis – Why Flames got it right by choosing Conroy as next general manager
Brisnet – Get to know the 2023 Belmont Stakes contenders
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – 2-Year-Old Champ Forte Targeting Belmont Stakes
Paulick Report – Champion Forte Breezes In Preparation For Belmont Bid
Paulick Report – National Treasure Possible For Belmont As Baffert Ponders Colt’s Immediate Future
Paulick Report – Mage To Be Aimed For Travers After ‘A Little Vacation’
Bloodhorse – Joe Peraz – Baffert Balancing Emotions After Preakness Win
DRF – Russo – National Treasure brings quite the crowd to Preakness winner’s circle
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Quality Road Lands First American Classic Winner
Bloodhorse – Gash – National Treasure Comes From Familiar Connections
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – National Treasure’s Owners Can Justify Success
Bloodhorse – Mulvihill – Velazquez At Last Adds Preakness to Expansive Resume
When I first started racing, my father said, “Win the race as slow as you can.
Richard Petty
Paulick Report – 1 ST/Racing Issues Statement On Havnameltdown’s Fatal Breakdown
TDN – Dan Ross – Lisa Lazarus Talks HISA On Eve Of Drug Program Launch
Front Office Sports – Lee – National Treasure Takes Preakness, Giving Baffert A Grand Return
ESPN – AP – National Treasure gives Bob Baffert eighth Preakness win
TDN – National Treasure Outgames Blazing Sevens In Preakness 148
If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you’ve got to go for speed.
Sparky Anderson
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – National Treasure Edges Blazing Sevens in Preakness
DRF – Illman – 148th Preakness: National Treasure turns back Blazing Sevens; Mage finishes third
DRF – Hersh – Preakness: Mage lost position, couldn’t catch up to National Treasure, Blazing Sevens
Adam Ference and Bill Dory’s Chase the Chaos (Astern {Aus}) requited himself quite well in the GI Preakness for trainer Ed Moger Jr. picking up a cheque for $49,500.00US. That buys a lot of crabcakes.
Phil has a loaded question:
When a trainer has a horse that is a closer and there is no pace in a race which is the better strategy – run the horse’s normal race and hope it can make up ground late or change running style and run the horse closer to the pace and hope it has enough left in tank at the end.
DRF – Hegarty – Total Preakness betting takes plunge compared to last year
Phil has a question:
Aren’t DINKs the main initials that the sports teams are interested in.
I Will Follow You Into The Dark
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
Richard Petty
DRF – Grening – Arcangelo not definite for Belmont Stakes despite Peter Pan win
ESPN – Fletcher – Kentucky Derby, Preakness obscure death in horse racing
Phil has a question:
Why doesn’t PETA protest the number of dogs and cats that die from neglect ever day.
DRF – Illman – Nagirroc sets track record with speedy Murphy Stakes triumph
SportsNet – Quick Shifts: Who will be the Maple Leafs’ next GM?
Speaking of Maple Leafs Phil noticed that Tim Horton’s has replaced their change jar for charity with a Tap a Toonie for charity.
Phil has a question:
How long before the homeless and the panhandlers start carrying a Tap a Toonie.
The Athletic – Mirtle: With Kyle Dubas gone, prepare for more Maple Leafs front-office fallout
Phil has a question:
Why not hire one of the Monday morning couch potato hindsight QBs from the comments section.
Are you as tired as Phil is of the touts who always knew it was a 1-7 Exacta in the Preakness, but never tell you until after the race and never show you their winning ticket.
With Joe Biden in the White House and Martha Stewart on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue can the Leafs entice Glen Sather.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Branch Rickey
Texas Monthly – Cruz Watch: The Senator Calls for an Investigation Into Bud Light for Some Reason
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
Study Finds – Naughton – What your taste in wine reveals about your personality, hobbies and career
That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
John Madden
Me and Julio Down By The School Yard
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Straight No Chaser Dominates Field in Maryland Sprint
DRF – Hersh – Straight No Chaser sets Maryland Sprint Stakes time record
Phil has a question:
How many people use a straw to drink good whiskey straight.
So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
Martha Stewart
Inverse – Mushrooms’ Remarkable Properties Can Build a New Era Of Sustainable Design
Bon Appetit – Jampel – I’m Always Ready to Eat These Ready-to-Eat Beans
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden
Paulick Report – Comebacking Beer Can Man Up In Time To Take Jim McKay Turf Sprint
DRF – Illman – Cheetara upsets Skipat; Beer Can Man gets up in McKay Turf Sprint
USA Today – Nothaft – Is honey good for you? Learn about the buzz here.
ESPN – ‘Air Bud’ to ‘Space Jam’: Basketball movie fantasy rosters
Paulick Report – Whitebeam Scores First U.S. Win In Gallorette On Pimlico Turf
DRF – Illman – Whitebeam takes Gallorette in second North American start
Washington Post – Aycock – The largely forgotten book ban case that went up to the Supreme Court
TDN – Street Sense’s Never Explain Proves Hungriest In Dinner Party
Paulick Report – Nevills – Never Explain Clocks New Track Record In Upset Dinner Party Stakes Score
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Never Explain Springs 15-1 Upset in Dinner Party
I Never Explain Anything.
Mary Poppins
Phil has a question:
Can they find a role for Martha in the reboot of Slap Shot.
That’s A Piecrust Promise. Easily Made, Easily Broken.
Mary Poppins
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Tragedy Overshadows Ryvit’s Chick Lang Triumph
Paulick Report – Ryvit Wins Chick Lang; Favorite Havnameltdown Suffers Fatal Breakdown
The three blind mice stewards should be immediately suspended for failing to call an enquiry into the start of the race. Were they waiting for Luis Saez to complain from the back of an ambulance.
Despite the defensive chatter from Asmussen and Gaffalione, Ryvit broke in and bumped Havnameltdown. Whether that bump led to the fatal injury or not is not relevant. If thoroughbred racing wants the general public to believe that it is doing everything it can in the interest of the horse then it has to walk the walk. By failing to call an enquiry into the start the stewards spoke loud and clear to the general public that thoroughbred racing does not care one iota for the welfare of the horse and that it’s far more important to sweep bad news under the rug and make sure that the show carries on.
The enquiry may have served no other purpose than showing the general public that the stewards are watching and policing the races, but that is one hell of a purpose that these stewards are too fucking stupid to realize.
It is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”.
Lord Hewart
Bloodhorse -Gash – Arabian Lion Roars in Sir Barton Stakes
Inverse – Inside the Existential Struggle to Make a Perfect Paper Drinking Straw
Phil has a question:
How many people do you see drinking beer or wine with a straw.
How many people do you see drinking coffee with a straw.
How quickly would the straw problem disappear if you charged an extra quarter per straw if you wanted a straw to drink a beverage from a glass or a cup.
Brisnet – Hanson – Taxed springs 11-1 upset in Black-Eyed Susan
Bloodhorse – Taxed, Hoosier Philly 1-2 in Black-Eyed Susan
TDN – Bossinakis – Taxed Leads Home Grey Exacta in Black-Eyed Susan
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
Dizzy DEan
TDN – Bossinakis – Maple Leaf Mel Crowned ‘Miss Preakness’ in Baltimore
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Maple Leaf Mel Takes Miss Preakness for Namesake
It’s a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach.
John Madden
The Hockey News – Stephens – Opinion: The Maple Leafs are More Disorganized Than Ever
Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Rattle N Roll Prevails By a Nose in Pimlico Special
Brisnet – Reilly – Rattle N Roll denies Speed Bias in Pimlico Special
The Hockey News – Schram – What Hockey Gains from Staying the Course in Arizona
It was easy to figure our Mr. Rickey’s thinking about contracts. He had both players and money-and just didn’t like to see the two of them mix.
Chuck Connors
TDN – Aspray Remains Perfect In Hilltop S.
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – Brian Davis’ Firm Files $500B Lawsuit Over Commanders’ Sale
Phil has a questions:
When you see these wealthy bastards suing each other for millions and billions don’t higher marginal rates of taxation start to make more sense.
Lithub – Temple – The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History
The future ain’t what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
Lithub – Luis Jaramillo – Enjoy Your Bread! On the Unlikely Discovery of an Old Family Recipe
Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
James Beard
Groovy History – Shelton – Slap Shot: How The Hanson Brothers Hijacked Paul Newman’s Hockey Classic
With so many remakes, sequels and prequels being made today Phil thinks it’s high time for a revival of Slap Shot. But here’s the conundrum: would the Hanson brothers have playoff beards or would their forte be yanking the other players’ beards.
Bloodhorse – Gash and Joe Perez – Mage Gets Stitches, Good for Preakness
Phil has a question:
When they do the reboot of Slap Shot can they find a role for a horse who runs with a stitch and sew.
The Ringer – Goldberg – The Untold Story of Jimmy Butler’s Dreadlocks
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James Beard
TDN – Congressman Demands Investigation Into Derby Week Fatalities
Brisnet – Reilly – Interstatedaydream game in Allaire du Pont
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – Senators Sale ‘Down to Just a Couple’ Groups
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
Phil will be reducing the frequency and content of posts post Kentucky Derby and will further reduce the frequency post Belmont Stakes.
Phil M Stockmen
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