2024 156th Belmont Stakes
Learn About the 2024 Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course
America’s Best Racing – Your Guide to the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga: What to Expect and Plan for in 2024
America’s Best Racing – Meet the Contenders for the 2024 Belmont Stakes
America’s Best Racing – Patrick Reed – 2024 Belmont Stakes Cheat Sheet: Get to Know the Horses
Steve Haskin – Belmont Stakes Handicapping Analysis – Secretariat.com
America’s Best Racing – Bob Ehalt – 2024 Belmont Stakes at a Glance
Brisnet – Get to know the 2024 Belmont Stakes contenders
America’s Best Racing – Mike Curry – A Beginner’s Guide to the 2024 Belmont Stake
TDN – Post Times for the Belmont Stakes Festival Released
America’s Best Racing – Mike Curry – Seventeen Fun Facts About the 2024 Belmont Stakes
2024 Belmont Stakes 156
2024 Belmont 156 PPs
| Post | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Odds |
| 1 | Seize the Grey | Jaime Torres | D. Wayne Lukas | 8 – 1 |
| 2 | Resilience | Junior Alvarado | Bill Mott | 10 – 1 |
| 3 | Mystik Dan | Brian Hernandez, Jr. | Ken McPeek | 5 – 1 |
| 4 | The Wine Steward | Manuel Franco | Mike Maker | 15 – 1 |
| 5 | Antiquarian | John Velazquez | Todd Pletcher | 12 – 1 |
| 6 | Dornoch | Luis Saez | Danny Gargan | 15 – 1 |
| 7 | Protective | Tyler Gaffalione | Todd Pletcher | 20 – 1 |
| 8 | Honor Marie | Florent Geroux | Whit Beckman | 10 – 1 |
| 9 | Sierra Leone | Flavien Prat | Chad Brown | 9 – 5 |
| 10 | Mindframe | Irad Ortiz, Jr. | Todd Pletcher | 7 -2 |
Mr. Fillip finished third in Friday’s 5 horse Western Canada Handicap and Belle Epoque was a steward’s scratch in Friday’s Chariot Chaser Handicap. Robertino Diodoro showing as trainer means that Alberta is not reciprocally honouring the HISA / HIWU provisional suspension or Horse Racing Alberta is just too fucking stupid to care.
A rather small field for one of the Canadian Derby preps does not bode well for thoroughbred racing in Alberta.
Far worse was the brutally paltry $461,566.00 handle for 9 races on a Friday evening with no NHL or NBA playoffs. On Wednesday June 5, 2024 the handle for a 7 race card at Assiniboia Downs reached $1,523,293.00, over $1 MILLION more than Century.
Phil has a question:
What is Assiniboia doing better.
Phil has an answer:
The competence of the people running the show in Assiniboia Downs compared to the road kill we have in Alberta at Horse Racing Alberta and Century Mile.
With Horse Racing Alberta wasting taxpayers’ dollars the UCP should be paying attention, but they’re too busy making sure Tory cronies like Alison Redford get their pensions topped up.
Phil heard a rumour that they’re going to change the license plates in Alberta from Wildrose Country to the Land Of Nepotism and Cronyism.
New York Times – Joe Drape – With Belmont in Saratoga, Horse Racing’s History and Hope Are Linked
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter
If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. If you try to confront the dragon it will overpower you. If you ride the dragon, you will take advantage of its might and power.
Chinese Proverb
Steve Haskin – What You Didn’t Know About Secretariat’s Belmont – Secretariat.com
Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
Chuck Palahniuk
Saratoga Special June 8 Edition
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Fast Track to Begin Day at Saratoga; No Belmont Changes
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Adds to a Special Spring
Paulick Report – Joe Nevills – The Haiku Handicpper Presented By FanDuel Racing: 2024 Belmont Stakes
To read previous editions of The Haiku Handicapper, click here.
#1 – Seize the Grey
Baltimore upset
Has shortest path to paydirt
If he’s away clean
#2 – Resilience
His worst career race
Happened here eight months ago
Different horse now
#3 – Mystik Dan
Triple Crown fumbled
Two out of three isn’t bad
Should be live again
#4 – The Wine Steward
Stuck in “bridesmaid” zone
Will jock change rattle out cobs
Or stop inertia?
#5 – Antiquarian
Nice Peter Pan win
That feels more like his level
Others attract more
#6 – Dornoch
The luster’s fading
From two pedestrian trips
Might need class relief
#7 – Protective
Repole maiden
Knows how to pick up a check
Winning’s elusive
#8 – Honor Marie
You could buy pumpkins
In your grocer’s produce hub
The last time he won
#9 – Sierra Leone
Turning all the knobs
To make him run a straight line
All for one more inch
#10 – Mindframe
Steam like a kettle
After huge undercard wins
Now tries live ammo
Prediction
The graveyard of chalk
Resilience bests Mystik Dan
Nine, four round it out
People in China say: ‘If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.
Li Na
ESPN – Adrian Wojnarowski – Sources: Dan Hurley, Lakers met Friday about coaching job
Bloodhorse – Stronach Facing Serious Criminal Charges in Canada
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
ESPN – How hiring UConn’s Dan Hurley could impact the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James and Bronny
Phil has one burning question:
Mow much.
Bloodhorse – The Road – Frank Angst – The Road: Sierra Leone Figures to Land Belmont Stakes
What do most people not understand about the news media? I would say two things. First: The most important bias in news media is not left or right. It’s a bias toward negativity and catastrophe. Second: While it would be convenient to blame the news media exclusively for this bad-news bias, the truth is that the audience is just about equally to blame.
The Ringer – Derek Thompson – The News Media’s Dangerous Obsession With “Fake Facts”
Phil has a question:
Do the perks include free Opus One.
TDN – T.D. Thornton – TDN Belmont Stakes Preview: ‘Test Of A Champion’ Gets A Spa Treatment
TDN – Jill Williams – Origins: The Belmont Stakes, presented by Three Chimneys
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Phil has an answer:
Even simpler if you don’t toast the bread.
Southern Living – Jenna Sims – 17 Easy Appetizers You Can Make With Tomatoes
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Buddha
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Inexperienced Mindframe Brings Talent to Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Proscia Relishing The Wine Steward’s Belmont Journey
SportsNet – Inaugural ‘Stanley Pup’ competition to air ahead of Game 1 of Cup Final
Phil has a question:
Will there be a Yukon Husky.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Randy Howg, John Holleman, Norman Tremblay, Surging Sky Ventures, LLC, Brian McGinnis and Selman Shaby’s Mr. Fillip is entered in Friday’s Western Canada Handicap, part of a paltry field of 5. Robertino Diodoro shows as trainer meaning that Alberta is not reciprocally honouring the HISA / HIWU provisional suspension or Horse Racing Alberta is just too fucking stupid to care. Mr. Fillip is coming off a stakes victory at Prairie Meadows where Matt Williams shows as trainer as IOWA is a HISA / HIWU jurisdiction.
A rather small field for one of the Canadian Derby preps does not bode well for thoroughbred racing in Alberta.
Charles Garvey’s Belle Epoque is entered in Friday’s Chariot Chaser Handicap. Robertino Diodoro shows as trainer meaning that Alberta is not reciprocally honouring the HISA / HIWU provisional suspension or Horse Racing Alberta is just too fucking stupid to care.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens
Paulick Report – Sports Illustrated To Produce Julie Krone Documentary
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – MyRacehorse More Popular Than Ever Following Preakness
This is Horse Racing – Saratoga Special – June 6, 2024
ESPN – Adrian Wojnarowski – Sources: Lakers preparing massive offer to UConn’s Dan Hurley
The Score – Dane Belbeck – Report: Lakers preparing massive offer for Dan Hurley
America’s Best Racing – Award-Winning Turf Writers Pick the 2024 Belmont Stakes Superfecta
Paulick Report – Joe Nevills – The Haiku Handicapper Presented By FanDuel Racing: 2024 Acorn Stakes
#1 – Becky’s Joker
Long layoff return
Never raced past seven-eighths
A total unknown
#2 – Power Squeeze
Javi gets the mount
Might have hit her class ceiling
In mid-pack Oaks run
#3 – Leslie’s Rose
Surprising Oaks dud
Was the Ashland Stakes her peak
Or will the Spa help?
#4 – Just F Y I
No clunkers from champ
She was her best in New York
Extremely live here
#5 – My Mane Squeeze
Her lone two-turn try
Saw her finish up the track
Doesn’t fit skill set
#6 – Where’s My Ring
Dinged up in the Oaks
Solid work slate since that tilt
Price play potential
#7 – Regulatory Risk
Lacks signature win
Often gets a piece of it
Tri, super factor
#8 – Gun Song
Growing up quickly
This field is a lot tougher
Litmus test looming
#9 – Thorpedo Anna
The Eclipse Award
Is hers to lose with a win
Always looks ready
Prediction
In case you forgot
Just F Y I is a star
Nine, six fill the tri
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.
Lady Gaga
The Ringer – Nora Princiotti – Can the NFL Avoid Playing Political Football in This Election Year?
America’s Best Racing – Noel Michaels – 2024 Metropolitan Handicap at a Glance
TDN – Hernandez Continues To Enjoy The Ride Of His Life
Bloodhorse – Peter Dent – Brown Hoping New Bit, Rider Will Help Sierra Leone
TDN – Louisiana Horses Will Go On the Vets’ List When They Ship Out
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Gargan Expecting a Bounce-Back Effort From Dornoch
Bloodhorse – Bob Kieckhefer – Ramjet Wins Tokyo Derby, Connections Eye World Travel
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Brown Aims to Win a Home Game in Special Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – McPeek Surprised to Find Mystik Dan 3rd in Morning Line
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Belmont Stakes Builds on Smart Strike’s Sterling Legacy
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Brown, Appleby Loaded With G1 Talent in Manhattan
The Bitter Southerner – Michael Oates Palmer – The Prayers Of Curtis Wilkie
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
William Shakespeare
Sports Business Journal – Bill King: Players betting on their sport was inevitable
Front Office Sports – Lifetime Ban Is More Proof of Sports’ Complicated Betting Relationship
Horse Race Insider – HOW COLLEGE SPORTSWEAR HIGHLIGHTS THE RETRO HORSE RACING CULTURE
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel
CTV News – Chelan Skulski – Sports betting: Alberta looking at Ontario’s privatized model
Phil has a suggestion:
When gaming is privatized how about 1 machine in each VLT establishment that takes wagers from all the online operators and allows cash deposits and withdrawals on the spot.
Phil has a question:
What about bricks n mortar sports-books at casinos and RECs.
Bloodhorse – NYRA Unveils Renovations to Saratoga Ahead of Belmont
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Honor Marie Brings Beckman Back to New York
Bloodhorse – Baffert Duo Gives Trainer 1-2 Punch for Woody Stephens
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – West Saratoga, Society Man Return in Matt Winn
Paulick Report – Elizabeth Martiniak – Lest We Forget: The Battles Of Hastings
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin
The Ringer – Rob Mahoney – The Reinvention of Kyrie Irving
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Rainy Forecast for All Four Days at Saratoga
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Lukas: Early Lead Not a Necessity for Seize the Grey
Paulick Report – Ken McPeek Pondering ‘Interesting’ Pace Setup In Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Five a Lucky Number for Antiquarian in Belmont Stakes
Paulick Report – Joe Nevills – Saratoga Statues: The Grey Ghost That Haunts Centennial Park
This Is Horse Racing – Tom Law – Stacked field for Belmont Stakes
TSN – Elks move kickoff of opener Saturday with Oilers in Stanley Cup
Phil has a question:
Does the Captain go down with a sinking ship.
ESPN – Alden Gonzalez – Ippei Mizuhara, ex-interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, pleads guilty
Phil has a question:
How did he steal that much money without the bank and agents noticing.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
SportsNet – AP – Padres’ Marcano banned for life for baseball betting
Paulick Report – HISA To Defer Provisional Suspensions For Metformin, Pursue Scientific Review
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Calm Before the Belmont Festival Storm in NTRA Poll
Whether a tomato or a rumor, consider the source.
Chris Bianco
Southern Living – Amy Cipolla Barnes – Why Southerners Love To Put Sugar On Their Tomatoes
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Miles Kington
Serious Eats – Achitoff-Gray – How the Science of Salt Can Improve Your Tomatoes
Nothing feels quite so good as pouring salt in an open wound.
Tammy Blackwell
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Nyquist Steadily Climbing Sire Rankings
Phil has a question:
Do New Yorkers think its NYquist.
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
DRF – David Grening – 2024 Belmont Stakes: Gargan hopes Dornoch gets rejuvenated at the Spa
DRF – David Grening – Belmont Stakes: Derby runner-up Sierra Leone favored from post 9
DRF – Mike Welsch – White Abarrio lands outside post in six-horse Met Mile
As all true gamblers know, the moods of luck, whether bad or good, are as changeable as the winds. One moment she might be with you, guiding you gently toward some distant paradise you never hoped to see; the next, she could be battering you to death against the rocks. A successful gambler therefore, the old man had said, is not one on whom luck never turns her back, but rather one who knows the moment to take their fate back from her into their own hands.
T.M Cicinski
Paulick Report – Sierra Leone Favored Over Kentucky Derby, Preakness Winners For Belmont Stakes
ESPN – AP – Preakness winner draws No. 1 post for Belmont; Sierra Leone is favored
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Belmont Draws 10; Brown’s Sierra Leone Morning-Line Favorite
TDN – LA State Racing Commission To Hold Emergency Meeting June 4
Paulick Report – University Of Guelph To Study Selenium Levels In Ontario Broodmares And Foals
Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?
Attributed to Groucho Marx.
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Sierra Leone 9-5 Morning-Line Favorite for Belmont
Brisnet – Vance Hanson – Post Parade: Is the Triple Crown anachronistic?
Brisnet – Sierra Leone favored over nine in 2024 Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Byron King – KY Oaks Winner Thorpedo Anna Set to Strike in Acorn
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Cordero a Major Influence in Torres’ Dramatic Rise
Horse Racing Nation – Carolyn Greer – First Look: Belmont at Saratoga + 15 other graded stakes
TDN – HRRN To Celebrate ‘A.P. Indy Week’ In Belmont Lead Up
Bloodhorse – NYRA Shares Special Wager Offerings for Belmont Week
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Not a clean backhand in open space. Not a tuck job. A shovel. The guy looked like he was mucking a stall at Belmont, and he still got off a perfect, unstoppable, unbelievable shot.
TDN – Bet365 To Go Live With Fixed-Odds Wagering In New Jersey, Colorado
Brisnet – Kellie Reilly – New York Stakes lures classy, cosmopolitan field of 13
The Ringer – Zach Kramm – A First Look at the NBA Finals Matchup Between the Celtics and Mavericks
Bloodhorse – Santa Anita Park Rosé Auction to Benefit Aftercare
Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – View From The Eighth Pole: Seizing The Fun In Racehorse Investments
New York Times – Ken Belson – N.H.L.’s Move to Salt Lake City Is Latest Sports Downsizing
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Preakness Winner Seize the Grey Has Settled in at Saratoga
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Mystik Dan Entered in Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Peter Scargill – Look De Vega Confirms Confidence in Prix du Jockey Club
Bloodhorse – Biggest Belmont Longshot? Someone Buying a $68K Ticket
TDN – T.D. Thornton – The Week in Review: Improbable Headlines Fueled by Winds of Change
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they’re called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
Joel Fuhrman
Paulick Report – Bob Baffert To Send National Treasure For Met Mile
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Centennial Seeks Second Belmont Win With Antiquarian
TDN – Tim Wilkin – McPeek Confirms Mystik Dan Will Run in Belmont
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
Phil’s reprising Sal:
Sal says that while Phil was able to read and post select writings from the NY Times – The Rail Blog all we’re left with today is the NY Times – Hoppert and Drape – Belmont 2017: Our Predictions to Win, Place and Show.
Sal doesn’t want to shatter your illusions that thoroughbred racing is prospering when the amount of landscape that thoroughbred racing retains in the major and minor newspapers’ sports sections couldn’t grow a handful of radishes.
Drape and Hoppert didn’t even publish picks for the 2024 Preakness at Pimlico and will only have picks for the 2024 Belmont cuz it’s in their home state.
Far too many thoroughbred racing participants in North America live in their blinkers on world content with their slots supported purses not understanding that the vast, vast, vast majority of the general public either does not give a frozen road apple about horse racing or has a very negative attitude about horse racing , the former being perhaps worse than the latter.
The 2024 Belmont will see a boost in media coverage since its being run at Saratoga while Belmont is being rebuilt and one of the entrants, Seize the Grey, has over 2,500 owners and their influence will help garner attention. Much of what the general public including the desperately needed new fans won’t see in 2024 is behind internet pay walls where you pay with cash or personal information discouraging racing fans both new and old from reading it. And much of what we do see will be negative publicity dealing with the unfortunate, but inevitable horse deaths at major tracks.
Phil’s reprising, but the message remains the same:
Phil’s reprising Phil:
Hard to believe that a decade has passed since the call to the post at Hollywood Park was replaced by the Last Post.
Phil never realized until he watched that replay that the winner of the 2009 Canadian Derby, Tommy Danzigger, raced in the last race that took place at Hollywood Park. Not only did he race in the last race at Hollywood Park he has the unique distinction of being the last horse to cross the Hollywood Park finish line in an official race as he finished 12th of 12. Of the 4 thoroughbred tracks that Tommy Danzigger raced at 2 are now shuttered.
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Ian Fleming
However, to behold the scope of the new Hollywood Park development is to understand why Thoroughbred racing is armed only with a dull knife in a high calibre gunfight for even a small share of the sports economy. SoFi Stadium, ugly as it is, will be crammed to the gills on Feb. 13 for the Super Bowl, monopolizing both social and traditional media, while the name of Hollywood Park, when summoned, will mean something altogether different from its origin story.
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Hollywood Park History Buried Under Super Site
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz
Times Union – C.J. Lais Jr. – With Belmont in Saratoga, a look back at the track’s movie career
Phil has a question:
Did Lebron recycle the bottle or will it be up for auction soon.
Horse Racing Nation – Travers is possible for Epsom Derby winner City Of Troy
TDN – Full Televised Schedule Released As Belmont 156 Returns To FOX Sports
America’s Best Racing – Mike Curry – By the Numbers: The 2024 Belmont Stake
TDN – Both Asmussen Jockey Sons Injured Saturday
Bloodhorse – Pete Denk – Circle of Trust Finishes Fastest to Win Honeymoon
New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!
Salvador Dalí
Bloodhorse – Patience Pays for Calumet, Happy Jack in Triple Bend
Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge
TDN – Audubon Goes To West Point’s Cugino In Gate-To-Wire Win
Bloodhorse – Mystik Dan, Sierra Leone Lead Busy Belmont S. Work Tab
TDN – Tim Wilkin and Editorial Staff – Mystik Dan Going in Right Direction for Start in Belmont
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Seize the Grey Works; Lukas Expects Preakness Winner Will Be Ignored in Belmont
Paulick Report – Pletcher Trio Mindframe, Antiquarian And Protective Have Final Belmont Drills
Paulick Report – ‘Stay Focused And Get Lucky’: Dornoch Breezes Sharp Half-Mile For Gargan
TDN – Bill Finley – LA Racing Commission to Loosen Drug Regulations, including on Clenbuterol
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton
TDN – Paul Hayward – Vindication For O’Brien With a Perfect Ten
TDN – Tom Frary – Justify’s City Of Troy Is The Derby Winner
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Maddy Playle – City of Troy Silences Doubters in Epsom Derby
The Ringer – Austin Gayle – The Postapocalyptic Movie Survivability Index
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you art crunchy and good with ketchup.
Anonymous
Bon Appetit – Ali Francis – Why Are Some Diners Leaving Such Small Tips?
Phil has an answer:
Cuz service sucks.
Eater – Lazarus Lynch – The Ultimate Guide to Barbecue Sauces
Bloodhorse – Tracy Gantz – Big City Lights Set to Shine in Triple Bend
Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
Paulick Report – A Rising Star: Jockey Kazushi Kimura Stars In New Mini-Documentary
TDN – Resilience Possible For Belmont
Paulick Report – Belmont: Mindframe Has ‘Enormous Talent,’ But Light On Experience
Bloodhorse – Resilience Being Considered for Belmont; Fierceness Out
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Mirahmadi Grateful for Belmont-Announcing Opportunity
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Belmont Contention Deeper Than Derby, Preakness Winners
Racing Post – City Of Troy silences the doubters to give Aidan O’Brien his tenth Derby win
TDN – Tom Frary – Justify’s City Of Troy Is The Derby Winner
Music made secretly wins no respect.
Nero
Southern Living – Josh Miller – 47 Fresh Tomato Recipes To Make All Summer Long
Paulick Report – McPeek: Thorpedo Anna And Mystik Dan Won’t Face Each Other In Belmont
The Ringer – Bryan Curtis – Charles Barkley Is Open for Business
Front Office Sports – Eric Fisher – More States Hiking Sports Betting Taxes, Eyeing Revenue Windfall
Paulick Report – Fierceness Needs ‘A Little More Time,’ Will Skip Belmont Stakes
TDN – Bill Finley – Fierceness to Pass Belmont, Point to Haskell
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Tuscan Gold on Target to Join Sierra Leone in Belmont
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Matt Rennie – City of Troy Draws Stall 1 for Epsom Derby
Guys like you can’t escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl.
Mickey Spillane
New York Times – Pete Wells – After 100 Years of Pizza, the Future of Totonno’s Is in Question
The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough
Yotam Ottolenghi
12 Tomatoes – Winters – Italian Grandmas Line The Street And Make Pasta Outside Their Homes
There’s a point of no return when you’re cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.
Geoffrey Zakarian
Garden and Gun – The Skillet – Clements – A New Orleans Nana’s Tomato Sauce
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Miles Kington
All Recipes – Carl Hanson – Our 15 Best Tomato Salads Make the Most of Fresh Tomato Season
Serious Eats – Achitoff-Gray – How the Science of Salt Can Improve Your Tomatoes
Nothing feels quite so good as pouring salt in an open wound.
Tammy Blackwell
New York Simply – Will Pattiz – 15 Best Pizza Joints in New York City (Definitive Local’s Guide)
Bacinos – 25 Best Pizza Places in Manhattan, NY
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
Phil has a question:
Do any other trainers have a street named after them.
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that’s not as fun as saying, ‘You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.’ And next time my fans eat pizza, they’re thinking of Venus!
Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you’re ordering chain, you’re a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that’s better than a chain. They can’t stand up to a local pizzeria.
Dave Portnoy
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
Al Pacino
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Anthony Bourdain
Sex is like pizza: if you’re going to use BBQ sauce, you better know what the fuck you’re doing.
Oliver Markus Malloy
Bacinos – Why Does Round Pizza Come In A Square Box?
12 Tomatoes – Heichelbech – Detroit Style Square Pizza
The Burger Barn fries are not quite as well salted as they once were, but the Burger Barn chefs understand that applying salt just as the fries come out of the fryer creates that to die for melding of salt, grease and potato. Add one of their burgers and an old fashioned milkshake, Phil’s favourite is licorice, and you’re set for the day.
Phil has a question:
What is a New Yorker milkshake.
Fat gives things flavor.
Julia Child
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Batten Down Headed to Ohio Derby Over Belmont
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Mystik Dan, Thorpedo Anna Doing ‘Fine’ at Saratoga
Paulick Report – Belmont: Ben Curtis Breaks Collarbone, Florent Geroux Picks Up Mount On Honor Marie
Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Baffert May Send Three to Saratoga, Including Imagination
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Seize the Grey ‘Very Professional’ in First Breeze Back
TDN – Elmont/Belmont Parade to Be Held June 1
The Ringer – Danny Chau – Bill Walton’s Long, Strange Trip to Basketball Immortality
Paulick Report – Small Yard, Big Chance: James Fanshawe Back At Epsom Derby After 33 Years
Paulick Report – Steeplechase ‘On Display’ During Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Dollars & Sense: Documenting Kentucky Derby’s Strength
TDN – Paul Hayward – From Kings to Commoners: the Quest for a Derby Miracle
Campaigned by the partnership of Arnold Bennewith, Randy Howg, Lana Wiest, R6 Stables, Gary Kropp, and Norman Tremblay, Heroic Move is trained by Robertino Diodoro,
Bloodhorse – Diodoro-Trained Heroic Move Wins Steve Sexton Mile
Horse Racing Nation – Lone Star Park: Heroic Move makes just that in Sexton Mile
Paulick Report – Heroic Move Makes The Grade In Lone Star’s Steve Sexton Mile
What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?
P.G. Wodehouse
Campaigned by the partnership of Arnold Bennewith, Randy Howg, Lana Wiest, R6 Stables, Gary Kropp, and Norman Tremblay, Heroic Move is trained by Robertino Diodoro,
Bloodhorse – Diodoro-Trained Heroic Move Wins Steve Sexton Mile
Horse Racing Nation – Lone Star Park: Heroic Move makes just that in Sexton Mile
The Texas Derby attracted a field of ten talented 3-year-olds for the 1 1/16-mile race. EJ Won the Cup was able to gain ground late under a ride by Mike Smith and crossed the wire a length ahead of all others. The chestnut colt by Omaha Beach, trained by Doug O’Neill and owned by Superfecta King Stables, stopped the clock at 1:44.62 as the 2-to-1 wagering favorite.
Paulick Report – Heroic Move Makes The Grade In Lone Star’s Steve Sexton Mile
The Ringer – Steven Hyden – How Music Videos Invented Bruce Springsteen, the Idea
The Athletic – Jason Quick – Bill Walton, one of basketball’s most eccentric characters, dies at 71
Sports Illustrated – Pat Forde – Bill Walton’s Unflappable Positivity Made Him One of a Kind
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
Lou Holtz
Bloodhorse – Mott Undecided on Belmont After Batten Down Breezes
Brisnet – Kellie Reilly – Adare Manor joins exclusive company with Santa Margarita repeat
Arnold Bennewith, Randy Howg, Lana Wiest, R6 Stables, Gary Kropp and Norman Tremblay’s Awesome Road will break from the 7 hole in the $300,000US Texas Derby going 1 1/16 miles on the dirt at Lone Star on Memorial Day, Monday May 27, 2024. Robertino Diodoro is training in the non-HISA, non-HIWU state with Harry Hernandez fresh off his 1,000th win in the saddle.
Harry Hernandez has double plus the number of wins he had when he hit his 500 milestone aboard Mat Monaco’s Kentucky bred Big News Coming at Turf Paradise on December 7, 2021 with James R. Brown training.
TDN – Tornado Strikes Will Rogers Downs
New York Times – Frank Bruni – There’s No Meal Better (or Longer) Than an Italian Sunday Lunch
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Don Vito Corleone
Phil has a question:
Isn’t it ironic that Blue Bloods an iconic cops and robbers show and the Sopranos an iconic robbers and cops show both have big family dinners.
Whose cookbook would you rather have: Blue Bloods or the Sopranos.
A “Sunday Gravy” Recipe From The Sopranos
TDN – Monday Insights: Memorial Day Racing Strong On Both Coasts
Bloodhorse – Bob Kieckhefer – Long Shot Danon Decile Wins Japanese Derby
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – MyRacehorse Celebrates Seize the Grey At Breakfast
TDN – Belmont, Woody Stephens Remain Options for The Wine Steward
My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell…each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy. Me… Or everyone else.
Max Rockatansky
Vanity Fair – Eva Batey – Furiosa Can Teach Us How to Survive the Apocalypse—Just Ask George Miller
The Telegraph – Tom Ward – Epsom Derby 2024 runners and riders: full horse list
Brisnet – Get to know the 2024 Belmont Stakes contenders
Paulick Report – Weekend Lineup Presented By Sky Racing World: Big Holiday Monday At Santa Anita
Texas Monthly – Daniel Vaughn – How to Win Friends and Not Poison Them With Barbecue
BBC – Becca Warner – The tunnels, trails and bridges built especially for bears
Half-Baked Harvest – 50 of the Most Popular Memorial Day Recipes
I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
Ernest Hemingway
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Timing Works Out for Legend of Time in Pennine Ridge
TDN – Alan Carasso – Sea The Stars’s Legend of Time Another Big Apple Graded Winner For Godolphin
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Film – B.J. Colangelo – Every Mad Max Saga Movie, Ranked
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Atomic Blonde Collars Chop Chop in Strange Keertana
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Paulick Report – ‘Looked Good’: Honor Marie Drills At Churchill In Penultimate Work For Belmont
TDN – Prat To Replace Gaffalione On Sierra Leone In Belmont
Bloodhorse – New Bit, Jockey for Sierra Leone in Lead-Up to Belmont
America’s Best Racing – Patrick Reed – Ten Memorable Belmont Stakes Upsets
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Preakness Winner Seize the Grey Shipping to Spa Next Saturday
The Guardian – Cecilia Nowell – I went a week without ultra-processed foods. Here’s what I learned
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Owner Ramsey in Need of Kidney Transplant
Paulick Report – ‘So Laid Back And Cool’: Fierceness Records First Work Since Kentucky Derby
Bloodhorse – Fierceness Returns to Work Tab After Derby Loss
The Bitter Southerner – 2024 Summer Reading Roundup
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Frequent Runners Faring Well in 2024 Triple Crown Races
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
Bob Dylan
What’s normal, anyways?
Forrest Gump
Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – Preakness TV Ratings Up Slightly, Wagering Dips Below $100 Million
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Appleby Sends Out Legend of Time in Pennine Ridge
TDN – Mott Stable Preps For Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
Paulick Report – Ken McPeek Focusing On Saratoga ‘Routine’ With Mystik Dan, Thorpedo Anna
TDN – Dornoch To Shoot For GI Belmont S.
Bloodhorse – Batten Down Prepares for Belmont Stakes Assignment
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E
Eat all the junk food you want – as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it’ll be less junky, and you won’t eat it every day because it’s a lot of work.
Michael Pollan
The Ringer – Juliana Ross – The Billie Eilish Divide
The Ringer – Justin Charity – We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Amy Winehouse
ESPN – Greg Wyshynski – Sources: Devils to hire Sheldon Keefe as new head coach
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Lukas Confirms Seize the Grey for Belmont
Bloodhorse – Mystik Dan Arrives at Saratoga Race Course
Paulick Report – Lukas: Preakness Winner Seize The Grey ‘Likely’ For Belmont Stakes
Paulick Report – Preakness Runner-Up Mystik Dan Headed To Saratoga But No Decision On Belmont Stakes
Paulick Report – Report: Fierceness Will Aim For Belmont Stakes
TDN – Jana Domino Foundation To Auction Box For Saratoga Belmont Stakes Weekend
Phil has a question:
What is NYRA going to do with and for Seize The Grey’s phalanx of owners.
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Seize the Grey Experience Extends Beyond Shareholders
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even”
Will Rogers
Mental Floss – Erin McCarthy – 26 Things You Might Not Have Known About Hamilton
The Ringer – Miles Surrey – The Greatest Car Chases in Movie History, Ranked
Food and Wine – Chandra Ram – Chicago-Style Hot Dogs
Steve Haskin – Current Again After 50 Years
New York Times – Frank Bruni – There’s No Meal Better (or Longer) Than an Italian Sunday Lunch
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Don Vito Corleone
Phil has a question:
Isn’t it ironic that Blue Bloods an iconic cops and robbers show and the Sopranos an iconic robbers and cops show both have big family dinners.
Whose cookbook would you rather have: Blue Bloods or the Sopranos.
A “Sunday Gravy” Recipe From The Sopranos
Phil M Stockmen
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