Most telling about horse racing’s uncertain future is that there is no menu button for horse racing on Covers.
Phil has a question:
Would any of the minions at Horse Racing Alberta have the slightest clue about Zochodne is saying.
Do the minions at Horse Racing Alberta think that gazing out a window and cashing their paycheques is a solution to the problems that Zochodne is outlining.
Can you hear the scurrying.
Pierre Esquirol’s homebred Jeff Fa Fa makes a jump in class to the Big Apple in this Friday’s Bold Ruler GIII going furlongs for $200,000US at the Belmont at Big A meet at Aqueduct. Manitoba born Rob Atras will handle the training duties with Kendrick Carmouche in the saddle.
After the Wire – Keith McCalmont – Jeff Fa Fa Will Try to Run Run Far Far in G3 Bold Ruler
When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix
I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I’m not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he’s one of the best.
Chris Cornell
There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.
Dave Grohl
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn’t enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.
Ry Cooder
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
Have you ever Really Loved a Woman
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
With A Little Help From My Friends
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
Paul Simon
You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That’s all gone now.
Joe Walsh
Global Nerws – Jasmine King – First stage of demolition begins at Edmonton’s Exhibition Lands
Phil’s dedicating this one to Tim Reid.
Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – View From The Eighth Pole: In Horse Racing, Change Never Comes Easy
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
Chinese proverb
HolyBull.ca – Repole It’s Time Now That The Owners Take Back This Game
Le Lezard – FANDUEL TV IS ALL IN ON THE 40TH BREEDERS’ CUP
Bloodhorse – FanDuel TV to Cover Breeders’ Cup Pre-Entries
Breeders’ Cup Announces 2023 Broadcast Schedule
America’s Best Racing – Beginner’s Guide to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships
America’s Best Racing – Patrick Reed – Forty Years of Breeders’ Cup Pop Culture: Then vs. Now
America’s Best Racing – Mike Currie – ABR’s Guide to Throwing an Amazing Breeders’ Cup Watch Party
Eater – 19 Saucy Pizza Spots to Love Around Los Angeles
Time-Out – Best Dive Bars in Los Angeles
SportsNet – AP – Rangers blow out Astros in Game 7 to win AL pennant, spot in 2023 World Series
ESPN – Alden Gonzalez – MVP Adolis Garcia, Rangers dethrone Astros to win ALCS
ESPN – Jeff Passan – MLB Playoffs 2023: How this October delivered two Game 7s
Phil has a question:
Who’s whining about the MLB playoff structure now.
Paulick Report – ‘A Humbling Tribute’: Frankie Dettori Statue Unveiled At Ascot Racecourse
Bloodhorse – Canterbury Begins Construction of Three 108-Stall Barns
Garden and Gun – Ron Rash’s Ghostly Inspirations
TDN – Classic Contenders Arabian Knight, White Abarrio Headline Breeders’ Cup Works
Bloodhorse – Lauren Gash – Typical Market on Day 1 of Kentucky October Sale
TDN – Jessica Martini – $500k Justify Colt Paces ‘Solid’ Fasig-Tipton October Opener
TDN – OwnerView Accepting New Owner of the Year Nominations
Bloodhorse – Weatherbys Reports Breeding Stats for England, Ireland
SportsNet – AP – Rangers rout Astros to force winner-take-all Game 7 in ALCS
Phil has a question:
Will Mattress Mack offer a furniture bonus to the Astros.
Science Translational Medicine – Anthony S Fauci – What keeps me up at night
Bloodhorse – FanDuel TV to Cover Breeders’ Cup Pre-Entries
ESPN – Jake Trotter – Browns’ Deshaun Watson ‘not sure’ if he reinjured shoulder
Phil has a question:
What did the Browns expect from a guy that had so many massage appointments.
Paulick Report – ‘She Stays All Day’: Romagna Mia Has Stamina To Spare For First U.S. Win In Dowager
TDN – Tamara Works At Santa Anita for BC Juvenile Fillies
TDN – Proxy, Prince Of Monaco Top Breeders’ Cup Work Tab
Bloodhorse – Several Breeders’ Cup Hopefuls Work at Santa Anita
Paulick Report – WATCH: Proxy ‘Handled It Well” When Unexpected Company Joins In Keeneland Breeze
TDN – Jockey Frank Alvarado Picks Up 4,000th Career Victory
Bloodhorse – Lauren Gash – Last Stop for Yearlings at the F-T October Sale
The Ringer – Danny Chau – Is James Harden Worth the Squeeze for the Clippers?
The Ringer – Ben Solak – The Hot Read, Week 7: Lamar Jackson for MVP
Sports Illustrated – Albert Breer – NFL Week 7 Takeaways: The Steelers Are Flashing Their Potential
ESPN – Alden Gonzalez – Astros’ Bryan Abreu facing 2-game suspension for plunking Adolis Garcia
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb
The Score – AP – Phillies push D-Backs to brink of elimination after Wheeler’s Game 5 gem
ESPN – Jesse Rogers – Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber launch Phillies to 3-2 NLCS lead
Sports Business Journal – Austin Karp – SBJ celebrates its New Voices Under 30
ESPN – Jeff Passan – MLB Playoffs 2023: Complicated legacy of Astros’ Jose Altuve
Fans don’t boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Lewis Porteous – Dettori Raises the Roof in Epic Long Distance Cup Win
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – King of Steel Takes Champion in Dettori’s UK Farewell
TDN – Nyquist Colt Dazzles in ‘TDN Rising Star’ Performance at Santa Anita
Paulick Report – ‘What A Horse’: Big Rock Wins QE II Stakes On Front End, Earns Breeders’ Cup Berth
TDN – Raise Cain Perfectly Timed at Wire in Keeneland’s Perryville
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Raise Cain Outfinishes Dr. Venkman in Perryville
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
TDN – Christina Bossinakis – Gun Runner’s Vahva Best in Raven Run
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Vahva Reels in Alva Starr in Raven Run
Bloodhorse – Dean Keppler – Touch’n Ride Wins Ontario Derby Via Disqualification
Canadian Thoroughbred – Jennifer Morrison – Woodbine Saturday: Controversy in Ontario Derby
TDN – Omaha Beach Filly All the Way in Anoakia
Paulick Report – Exercise Rider Alfredo Luevano Dies In Los Alamitos Training Incident
Paulick Report – Victor Ryan – Practical Move Among Breeders’ Cup Hopefuls To Drill At Santa Anita
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Nest to Skip Breeders’ Cup, Bound for Fasig-Tipton Sale
If you can’t beat ’em in the alley, you can’t beat ’em on the ice.
Conn Smythe
The incident will be debated for years. People will see what they want to see. But the bottom line is this: The Astros are on the verge of going to their third straight World Series. Seems difficult to believe that in a game they badly needed to win, they were willing, for the sole purpose of vigilante justice, to fall further behind.
If you hot dog your home run and disrespect a pitcher you gotta expect chin music the next time you’re at the plate. Everyone knows it. It’s in the book of unwritten baseball rules.
You know the one that they keep under a mattress in one of Mattress Mack’s stores.
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Maldonado was later asked if he believed the emotions of the eighth inning fired his team up.
“Yeah,” he said, “I do.”
Jelani Scott just moved into the Pun Headlines Chart Top Ten with a bullet.
Phil has a question:
Did Jelani Scott intend the double pun.
ESPN – Alden Gonzalez – Rangers rip Astros after tempers flare in HBP fracas: ‘Not right’
Phil has a question:
Did Garcia taunt Verlander and the Astros with his hotdogging of his home run.
Did the Astros remember that taunt.
Did Maldonado call an inside pitch and then set up outside so that Garcia would get comfortable at the plate when Garcia snuck a peak at Maldonado to check location.
Was Garcia not aware of the unwritten rule about chin music after taunting on a home run.
Did Maldonado sneak a peak at Maldonado to check location.
Was Garcia more angry at getting hit or at Maldonado suckering him to get comfortable at the plate with his location fake that Garcia snuck a peak at.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
There ain’t no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, ‘That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.’ You bet I do. Hit ’em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run – and that’s really overrated – I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can’t screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver
ESPN – 2023 MLB playoffs: 5 wildest moments from epic day in LCS
Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
Johan Cruyff
The Score – AP – D-Backs tie NLCS with late comeback in Game 4
Sports Business Journal – Blackhawks crack down on third-party ticket brokers with offseason audit
Phil has a question:
Does Taylor Swift care enough about her fans to audit her ticket sales to keep the brokers out.
National Post – Ken Dryden book excerpt: Canada’s make-or-break moment in ’67
“The men from HIWU told John, ‘If you give us some information [on other people breaking the rules], we’ll cut you some slack,’” is how Diana recalled the conversation.
“Come on, you don’t know somebody that’s doing something?” Diana said the agents prodded.
John’s curt reply was that he’d been minding his own business as a trainer for nearly 50 years, and he wasn’t now about to start getting involved in what other racetrackers did.
TDN – T.D. Thornton – HIWU Descends Upon a Shedrow, Upending Life For a Mom-and Pop Stable
If Repole wants to do something beneficial for horse racing he needs to get the owners together and threaten a boycott of the Breeders Cup unless Lisa Lazarus and the entire HISA Board are immediately replaced with people who understand horse racing.
Phil has a question:
Who the fuck does Lisa Lazarus think she is – Joe McCarthy.
It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi Berra
TDN – Jessica Martini – Johnson Cross a Partnership That Works
TDN – Justify’s First Grade I Winner Arabian Lion Retired To Spendthrift
Sports Business Journal – MLB to focus on influencer partnerships in World Series social strategy
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
Bill Veeck
The Telegraph – Hannah Boland – ‘Holy grail’ bottle of whisky expected to fetch £1.2m at auction
The Score – Travis Sawchik – The Phillies have mastered the psychology of the postseason
ESPN – Aidan Gonzalez – Jose Altuve, in 100th playoff game, sparks Astros in Game 4 win
The Score – AP – Astros tie ALCS with back-to-back road wins vs. Rangers
The Score – Bryan McWilliam – D-Backs’ Marte walks off Phillies to take Game 3 of NLCS
The key step for an infielder is the first one… but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver
Bloodhorse – FanDuel TV to Cover Breeders’ Cup Pre-Entries
Bloodhorse – Jim Mulvihill – DK Horse Approved to Take Bets at CHRB Meeting
The Ringer – Eric Ducker – Concert Tour Films Are Having a Moment
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.
Sparky Anderson
Southern Living – 26 Chicken Soup Recipes To Cozy Up With Tonight
Bloodhorse – HIWU Halts Provisional Suspensions With Select Drugs
TDN – Dan Ross – HIWU: Efforts to Harmonize Laboratory “Testing Sensitivity” Underway
Bloodhorse – Lauren Gash – Brion, Four Other Suspensions Lifted by HIWU
TDN – Pletcher Breezes Breeders’ Cup Dozen at Keeneland
Bloodhorse – Pletcher Breezes Dozen Considered for Breeders’ Cup
Phil has a question:
How can the Marlins expect to field a functional baseball team when their front office makes Horse Racing Alberta look almost competent.
ESPN – Stephen A. calls on James Harden to grow up
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Forte Retired; Headed to Stud at Spendthrift Farm
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Scott Burton – Without Parole Filly Goes to Mandore, Madaket at Arqana
Phil M Stockmen
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CPMA running a deficit of $300k to %400k yearly based on a reduction of parimutuel betting is a sure sign of racing industry woes. Their 0.8% levy of each bet is not covering expenses with 70% for drug testing and 70% revenue coming from the Ontario market. The 250k levy from century mile / betmakers
33 million fixed odds betting is not being captured due to legal reasons.
HOT RUMOUR is that a confidential CARO soil analysis study of century mile racing surface is that the thoroughbred mix with harness base is problematic.
HOT RUMOUR is that CENTURY strategic bankruptcy?? has had the stock drop 20% in two days from $5.34 to $4.35. The 231 fund/institutional investors must have caught wind prior to Nov 7th/ 3th qtr filing,with 660 million in long term debt and lease obligations versus a market cap of only 135 million!
HRA transparency finally has their board expenses posted nothing exciting.