50th Anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown
Kentucky Derby 150
Kentucky Derby 150 – Derby of A Lifetime Contest
Phil reduced the frequency and content of posts post 2023 Kentucky Derby 149 and will further reduce the frequency of posts post 2023 Belmont Stakes 155.
The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
Johan Cruyff
The Ringer – Mahoney – Ja Morant’s Landmark Punishment Isn’t About Guns
Garden and Gun – Lotz – What Cormac McCarthy Meant to Southern Writers
The Ringer – Phillips – Cormac McCarthy Saw the Extremes of Human Experience
NPR – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist of the stark and dark, dies at 89
If McCarthy is a tad too academic for your liking try James Lee Burke.
Garden and Gun – Lotz – James Lee Burke and S. A. Cosby’s New Summer Chillers
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
And if you want to taste some Irish air try The Searcher.
Paulick Report – Voss – Will Todd Get ‘The Baffert Treatment’?
TDN – Ross – THA: What You Need To Know About New HISA Drug Sanctions
Front Office Sports – Cohen – Cable Drops the Puck With Lowest Stanley Cup Clincher in 30 Years
ESPN – Wyshynski – How Golden Knights disrupted the NHL, won the Stanley Cup
The Ringer – Baker – The Vegas Golden Knights Make Their Own Luck—and Have a Stanley Cup to Prove It
Front Office Sports – Rumsey – Golden Knights Stanley Cup Win a Seminal Moment for Vegas Sports
TDN – Letter to the Editor: Fred Pope
Paulick Report – Motion Supports HISA: ‘Let’s Give What We Have A Chance’
SportsNet – Scanlan – ‘Hockey guy’ Michael Andlauer to buy Ottawa Senators, pending NHL approval
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Pedulla – Should the Triple Crown Schedule Be Extended?
Sports Business Journal – Belmont Stakes caps off challenging year for Triple Crown
The Bitter Southerner – Skinner – The Global Love of Boiled Peanuts
Southern Living – SanSone – The Best Types Of Tomatoes To Grow In The South
TDN – Canada’s Leading Second-Crop Sire Counterforce To Relocate
TDN – Sue Finley – NYRA: If Necessary, We’d Prefer Belmont-at-Saratoga
The Ringer – Kram – The Denver Nuggets Have Reached the NBA’s Summit
Sports Illustrated – Nadkarni – The Nuggets Won the Finals The Way No One Thought They Could
ESPN – NBA Finals 2023: Tales of Nikola Jokic’s journey to a title
Garden and Gun – Key – An Unruly Retriever Helps His Owner Exorcise Some Demons
The Ringer – Shoemaker- The Enemy of the Babyface Is My Hero
Garden and Gun – Howard – Vivian Howard Navigates the New Rules of Dating
Bloodhorse – Sullivan – Reconsidering Synthetics After Churchill Safety Issues
Bloodhorse – Downey – Another Pletcher Runner Found Positive in New York
The grey 3-year-old Kaukokaipuu (‘wanderlust’ in Finnish) became the first stakes winner for Holder and first Woodbine stakes winner for jockey Rico Walcott, also from Barbados and a leading rider in Alberta.
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Disarm Bests Verifying in Matt Winn Thriller
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Three Triple Crown Winners Muddle 3-Year-Old Picture
TDN – Team Arcangelo Enjoying Belmont Victory
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Arcangelo is Don Alberto’s First U.S.-Bred G1 Winner
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – Zenyatta Retires as Broodmare, Staying at Lane’s End
ESPN – AP – Mashnee Girl euthanized in 2nd fatality in 2 days at Belmont
TDN – Disarm Splashes Home First in Matt Winn
SportsNet – Connecticut governor has group interested in buying Coyotes, moving team to Hartford
The Ringer – Pina – The Defense of Nikola Jokic’s Defense
TSN – Lewenberg – Rajakovic hiring gives little indication of where the Raptors are heading
TSN – CP – Taylor’s victory at RBC Canadian Open ‘monumental’ on multiple levels
The Hustle – Rylah – NYC gets closer to its toll goals
Phil has a question:
Where’s the announcement of the suspension for the axe wielding Pietrangelo.
Arcangelo won the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths on Saturday evening making trainer Jena Antonucci the first woman to saddle the winner of a Triple Crown race.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – ‘A Chance’ Was All Antonucci Needed With Arcangelo
Jena Antonucci became the first woman to saddle a winner of the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown when Blue Rose Farm’s ARCANGELO (c, 3, Arrogate–Modeling, by Tapit) slipped through inside of the pacesetting GI Preakness S. winner National Treasure (Quality Road) and
grindedground it out to the wire in Saturday’s GI Belmont S. on Long Island.
TDN – Arcangelo Makes History For Antonucci In the Belmont
TSN – CP – Arcangelo wins Belmont Stakes to make Antonucci first female trainer to win
Brisnet – Scully – Arcangelo steps up in Belmont Stakes, delivers record-setting win for Antonucci
ESPN – AP – Arcangelo wins Belmont Stakes; Jena Antonucci first woman trainer to win
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Arcangelo Hands Antonucci, Castellano First Belmont
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac
Bloodhorse – Angst – Ebbert Earns First Grade 1 With Arcangelo in Belmont
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – The Belmont Stakes Finally Comes Castellano’s Way
Bloodhorse – NYRA Sees Record Handle for Non-Triple Crown Belmont
Paulick Report – Belmont Stakes Day Generates Record Handle For Non-Triple Crown Year
DRF – Welsch – Belmont Stakes: Forte comes up short after challenging Triple Crown season
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Food and Wine – Ti Martin – What I Don’t Think About Anymore
The gay world that flourished in the half-century between 1890 and the beginning of the Second World War, a highly visible, remark ably complex, and continually changing gay male world, took shape in New York City…. It is not supposed to have existed.
George Chauncey
The Globe and Mail – Klinkenberg –Ron Turcotte, one of Canada’s greatest sportsmen, will forever be linked to Secretariat
Global News – Blunt – Manitoba’s Assiniboia Downs horse racetrack marks 65th anniversary
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
These changes won’t come easy in an industry, unlike other professional sports, that does not have a national league with a commissioner or a board of governors, with regular meetings of owners, player associations and other interested parties to create shared and unified regulation. That is why I believe it is time for a CEO-level horse racing leadership summit of racetrack owners and veterinarians.
Regardless of the findings that come out of Churchill Downs, our industry faces a watershed moment. The time has come for all stakeholders to meet this moment with a unified commitment to the safety and welfare of horses and riders. If we can do that, I believe we can earn back the public trust and strengthen the social license required to sustain horse racing into the future.
“This is the kind of adversity that should bring us together, but the old school thinks it will just go away and the blue bloods don’t want to change, so it won’t happen. There needs to be a governing body in the sport and if there isn’t one in the next two years I don’t think the sport survives for five years and I don’t know if I want to be in the sport for five years.
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Last Five Weeks an Upsetting Time for Team Forte
Paulick Report – Letter To The Editor: We Need More ‘Throwback Horses’
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
TDN – Taking to Twitter, Repole Calls For Change, Transparency
Paulick Report – Forte Co-Owner Repole Calls For National Racing Commissioner
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
Politico – Cadelago and White – Gavin Newsom wants 28th Amendment for guns in U.S. Constitution
Phil has a question:
Did Newsom just throw his hat into the 2028 presidential ring.
Thoroughbred announcing is incredibly difficult — even veteran play-by-play announcers bristle when they think about the gig. The animals move fast and stick close together, identifiable by only their saddle cloth or jockey silks. Paquette keeps a lineup of colored pencils in the booth to mark up her race sheets with the proper silks, and scratches notes next to each horse’s name — for example, if it’s wearing blinkers or not — to fill in the details as she calls 10 races a day three days a week. As they hit the backstretch, they’re nearly impossible to discern by the naked eye — and that’s without factoring in the elements, such as rain or fog. Meanwhile, anxious bettors hang on the announcer’s every word.
“You memorize the field, get dialed in and then you’ve got to forget the names you just remembered five minutes ago,’’ says Chris Griffin, her predecessor at Parx. “It’s not something you can go to school for. They’re not talking about what to say when a horse stumbled out of the gate in the fifth race at journalism school.”
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Just caught the tenth. Is Jessica related to Stuttering John?
I don’t know why anyone would want to publicly embarrass themselves.
It’s the way of current society. Qualified, competent or not, being in a rush to be the first to hire a woman, transgender, openly gay, or person of color.
I go to the track to get away from my old lady’s voice.
The 4th reminded me of when the Mets have a kid come on to announce an inning of a game because he won a contest. But usually the kid practices before going on.
Glad you’re enjoying yourself. Stevie Wonder could do a better job.
That’s just a dose of the vitriol tossed Paquette’s way via message boards and social media. Others pretend to offer advice, all while prefacing their remarks with “love’’ or “honey.’’ Some intimated about just how she got the job; some flat-out propositioned her.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Phil has a question:
Does Orange Julius still make hot dogs.
There is no quiet place in the white man’s cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect’s wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
Chief Seattle
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Mott Ponders Summer Options for Cody’s Wish
RTE – O’Cofaigh – What we’ve learned from 100 years of the Le Mans 24 hour race
SportsNet – AP – Ferrari topples Toyota in return to 24 Hours of Le Mans after 50-year absence
TDN – Cynthia Holt – The Remains of One Magnificent Day
“I know some good games we could play,” said the cat. “I know some good tricks,” said the Cat in the Hat.
Dr. Seuss
The Guardian – Losos – The big idea: Are cats really domesticated?
Music is the space between the notes
Claude Debussy
Rabble – Engler – Roger Waters is a principled rock star to be emulated, not smeared
ESPN – Treble achieved! Manchester City win Champions League despite tough test from Inter Milan
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Branch Rickey
Phil has a question:
Would you get the same reaction from a 10 year old kid today.
Phil has a question:
When will Hockey Canada start the legal proceedings to have the cup returned to the dominion of Canada to be awarded to the top amateur team in the dominion of Canada.
Will the cup named Stanley ever have a victory parade through the park named Stanley.
SportsNet – Hobbled Tkachuk, outmatched Panthers running out of magic after Game 4 loss
ESPN – Shilton – ‘Emotions will be high’: Knights win, eye Cup clincher in Vegas
TSN – CP – Golden Knights beat Panthers to take commanding 3-1 series lead in Stanley Cup Final
SportsNet – Will NHL punish Knights’ Pietrangelo for leaving penalty box for game-ending scrum?
Phil has a comment:
If that was an Edmonton Oiler or Toronto Maple Leafs player that fucking jerk Bettman would have to take his socks off to count the number of games they’d get suspended.
Phil has an answer:
With both the volume and the picture off.
Al P Pitchko’s Grigoro won a starter allowance at Century Mile on Friday June 9, 2023 giving trainer Rod Cone his 3rd victory for 2023 and 990 career victory edging ever closer to the 1,000 win milestone.
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – Up to the Mark Rallies to Dominate Manhattan Stakes
TDN – Up To The Mark Posts Towering Victory in Manhattan
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
Bloodhorse – Angst – Cody’s Wish Keeps Dream Alive With Met Mile Triumph
Brisnet – Hanson – Cody’s Wish all class in Met Mile
TDN – Carasso – Met Win More Than ‘Wish’-ful Thinking
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I’m surprised I’m not diabetic.
Jake LaMotta
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Caravel Wins Fifth Straight in Jaipur
TDN – BC Champ Caravel Beats the Boys Again in Jaipur
Paulick Report – Caravel Trounces The Boys In Grade 1 Jaipur, Earns Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Berth
Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha
Bloodhorse – Arabian Lion Claws His Way to Woody Stephens Victory
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – Clairiere Defends Ogden Phipps Title With Game Victory
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we’ll likely not see another like him.
Dick Van Dyke
Bloodhorse – Byron King and Angst – Emmanuel, Next Earn Graded Stakes on Belmont Undercard
Brisnet – Reilly – Emmanuel collars pacesetting Filo Di Arianna in Poker; Chez Pierre third
DRF – Illman – Next cruises to front-running victory in Brooklyn Stakes
Bloodhorse – Brooklyn Winner Next Proves Rewarding Claim
TDN – Elite Power Overwhelms Rivals In True North
Garden and Gun – Lotz – James Lee Burke and S. A. Cosby’s New Summer Chillers
Food and Wine – – ‘The Bear’ Chocolate Cake
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas
Phil has a question:
Did Padma discuss this with Martha during the 2023 SI Swimsuit Issue shoot.
SportsNet – Scanlon – Frustrated Steve Apostolopoulos withdraws bid to purchase Senators
TSN – Report: Apostolopoulos withdraws bid for Senators
Phil has a question:
If that was an American city how quickly would that fucking jerk Bettman have expedited the sale.
When are the NHL owners going to realize that David Stern sending Bettman to the NHL was for the benefit of the NBA and get a real commissioner.
Has Belinda tapped Bettman as commissioner of the thoroughbred racing league so he can keep racing in Phoenix.
If you can’t beat ’em in the alley, you can’t beat ’em on the ice.
Conn Smythe
Butkus spoke admiringly about the athleticism of Hernandez and his colleagues when interviewed following the Santa Margarita presentation.
“Everybody wonders how a little guy of that size can control a big animal like that,” Butkus said. “They may sit in that saddle when they get in the gates but after that it isn’t until they get to the winner’s circle that they get to sit down again. If you can imagine doing squats for whatever the amount of time the horse runs the route—I mean, it is brutal on your legs. So you gotta hand it to these guys. They have to be in shape.”
Bloodhorse – Gantz – Adare Manor Soars in Santa Margarita
ESPN – Voepel – Brittney Griner, Mercury confronted by ‘provocateur’ at airport
Dorth Vader, a John Ropes Florida homebred requited herself very well in the Acorn on Friday, June 9, 2023 at Belmont running a game second to Pretty Mischievous, beaten only a short head. Dorth Vader is by Girvin (Tale of Ekati) out of the Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy who was campaigned in Alberta by Darrell Landry and then Amber Buniak and Ryan McLean. Hardcore Candy won 8 races from 40 starts with 8 seconds and 4 thirds, earning $101,308. She was Stakes placed in the Freedom of the City Stakes (Black Type) at Northlands Park.
In upper stretch, Dorth Vader moved up to challenge for the lead outside Munnys Gold but soon thereafter Pretty Mischievous edged clear to a half-length lead outside horses. Dorth Vader dug in gamely but Pretty Mischievous kept her focus all the way to the wire to score another Grade 1 victory.
DRF – Russo – Oaks winner Pretty Mischievous takes Acorn by a head after stiff stretch battle
But similar to her rally from fifth early in the Kentucky Oaks, the daughter of Into Mischief soon found herself in a stretch battle—this time with Dorth Vader —before prevailing at the wire.
Bloodhorse – Angst – Pretty Mischievous Edges Dorth Vader in Acorn Stakes
TDN – Sherack – Kentucky Oaks Heroine Pretty Mischievous Delivers in Acorn Thriller
Paulick Report – NYRA – Bohl – Kentucky Oaks Winner Pretty Mischievous Digs Deep For Acorn Triumph
Brisnet – Scully – Pretty Mischievous adds Acorn
This is Horse Racing – Halloran – Familiar result for Pretty Mischievous in Acorn
TDN -Desormeaux to be Subject to Breathalyzer Before Every Race Day or Morning
The Ringer – Kram – The Nuggets Proved Their Championship Mettle With Their MVP Off the Floor
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Bill Russell
Brisnet – Reilly – Siskany continues international dominance of Belmont Gold Cup
TDN – Marketsegmentation Can’t Be Caught In New York
Brisnet – Reilly – Marketsegmentation in control throughout in New York
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – In Italian Dominates the Just a Game Stakes
Brisnet – Heavily favored In Italian makes all in Just a Game
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
Bear Bryant
The Intelligencer – Hartmann – The Craziest Details From the Trump Documents Indictment
FiveThirtyEight – Rogers – How Other Candidates Are Reacting To Trump’s Federal Indictment
I’m not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I’m afraid of what real human beings do to other real human beings.
Walter Jon Williams
TDN – McGrath – Could Sunday Silence’s Grandson Close the Circle?
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
Chief Seattle
Southern Living – 45 Father’s Day Cookout Recipes Dad is Sure to Love
Martha Stewart – Cappiello – The 6 Best Bourbons to Gift Dad This Father’s Day
LiquorLaboratory- Lydia Martin – 8 Best Bourbons for Father’s Day
TDN – Woodford Reserve Derby Bottle Celebrates Secretariat Anniversary
Ragged Branch to Release Secretariat-Inspired Bourbon
TDN – ‘Rising Star’ Extra Anejo Back on Track at Ellis
Study Finds – Anderer – 2 years later, over 1 in 6 unvaccinated COVID patients still have symptoms
The Vulture – Willmore – Flamin’ Hot Has an Unintentionally Grim Message
Front Office Sports – Poindexter – The A’s Mess Should Make MLB Do Some Soul Searching, But It Won’t
Phil has a question:
Why don’t all sports leagues base a team’s share of TV revenue on their winning percentage.
Phil M Stockmen
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