Paulick Report – Travers Winner Fierceness To Train Up To Breeders’ Cup Classic
TDN – Fierceness Holds Off Thorpedo Anna In A Thrilling Travers
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Fierceness Outlasts Thorpedo Anna in Thrilling Travers
Paulick Report – Mary Eddy – Fierceness Edges ‘Tremendous Filly’ Thorpedo Anna In Travers Thriller
On-track crowd of 47,844 wagered more than $11 million, witnessed thrilling stretch battle between Fierceness and Thorpedo Anna
Paulick Report – Pat McKenna – $63 Million Wagered On Travers Day, Smashing Previous Record
TDN – DraftKings Travers Day Wagering A Record With Over $63 Million
TDN – Like Father, Like Son: Domestic Product Takes High-Class Renewal of the H. Allen Jerkens
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – Domestic Product Posts Grade 1 Win in H. Allen Jerkens
Phil has an answer:
Yes.
Peter Redekop’s August Rain led a BC dominance of the thoroughbred stakes on the 2024 Canadian Derby Day card. Trained by Barbara Heads with Amadeo Perez in the irons August Rain closed from the boonies and won the 2024 95th Canadian Derby going away. The BC bred son of Sungold topped an All BC Exacta with J Dutton in second and an All Invader Triacta with Roussette getting show money. None of the invaders were from Vernon.
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – August Rain Gives Connections Another Canadian Derby
Peter Redekop’s Avana started the BC dominance winning the Oaks for Barbara Heads with Amadeo Perez in the irons.
Barbara Heads switched jockeys to Antonio Reyes and owners to Edmonton Oiler Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and William Decoursey to take the Northlands Distaff. Infinite Patience cranked out the 21st win of her stellar career.
Highfield’s Varatti with N’Rico Prescod in the saddle for Craig Smith was the lone Alberta representative in the Stakes winners circle.
Apprehend made sure that the BC contingent had traveling money for their journey back over the Rockies. The son of Arrogate out of the Meier family’s Elevated Bloodstock Alberta based mare Hero’s Amor took the nightcap, an Allowance for 3 year olds and up. Apprehend’s win got the hats flying at the Derby with 4 wins on the day for Barbara Heads and 3 for Amadeo Perez and Peter Redekop.
Phil has a question:
Why doesn’t Century Mile have a track page on DRF.
“This,” he said after getting his picture taken with Papiamento, “is the best day ever.”
Bloodhorse – Teresa Genaro – Papiamento A Landmark Winner for Kamps, Beckman
Phil has a question:
How do you bottle that feeling.
Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – Del Mar Summer: In Horse Racing, Time Is Of The Essence
Defector – Kelsey McKinney – Chappell Roan Confronts The Sickness Of Modern Fandom
Phil has a question:
Does Chappell know the difference between a chestnut and a strawberry roan.
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
Vox – Christina Paz – Kamala Harris’s speech triggered a vintage Trump meltdown
Phil has a question:
Does demented Donald realize that his shtick is a worn out as a Borsch Belt comic.
If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I’d fire him.
Charlie O. Finley
NPR – Benazir Samad – He Won Gold For Pakistan. He Got $1 Million. And … a Buffalo!?!
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
Vox – Celia Ford – The case for pole dancing in the Olympics
Phil has a question:
Would Raygun have a shot.
Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we’re all in the soup.
Red Auerbach
SportsNet – Browns’ Watson sits out pre-season finale after dealing with sore arm earlier in week
Phil has a question:
Does Watson need a deep muscle massage.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Caitlinhergrtness Upsets Males in King’s Plate
TDN – Alan Carasso – Omaha Beach’s Caitlinhergrtness Beats The Boys In the King’s Plate
Paulick Report – Nothin’ But Net: Caitlinhergrtness Gives Fillies Another King’s Plate
TSN – Caitlinhergrtness wins 165th King’s Plate at Woodbine
SportsNet – CP – Caitlinhergrtness wins 165th King’s Plate at Woodbine
It’s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny
Woodbine 2024 King’s Plate handle – $11,616,832
Woodbine 2023 King’s Plate handle – $18,127,049
Difference $ 6,510,217
Phil has a question:
Did Connor McDavid get married in the middle of the NHL playoffs.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Skippylongstocking Repeats in Charles Town Classic
Isn’t it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?
Stieg Larsson,
TDN – Dan Ross – Receiving Barns: `Let’s Clean Up the Sport, And The Stalls’
Southern Living – Jenna Sims – 35 Grandma-Approved Recipes To Take To Your Next Bible Study
The rule is known as a “rouge” and comes into play when a kicking team kicks a field goal or punts the ball and the opposing team is unable to retrieve the ball from out of their end zone or if the ball goes out the back of the end zone. The kicking team in those cases is awarded one point, though there are exceptions, such as a fumble or interception in the back of the end zone.
Bon Appetit – Joseph Hernandez – These Chefs Are Championing Heirloom Corn in Minnesota
Is there a way to make the classic BLT even better?
Southern Living – Ann Taylor Pittman – Millionaire Bacon BLT Puts All Other Sandwiches To Shame
Phil has an answer:
More fresh garden tomatoes.
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
Herbert V. Prochnow
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
Henri Matisse
A homegrown tomato, you’re never going to taste anything like it. There is nothing close to it, the sweetness. And strawberries: The ones you get in the store are so hard; but you get a homegrown strawberry, it just melts, I’m telling you.
Marc Gasol
Garden and Gun – Steve Russell – Why I Stood in the Rain for Three Hours to Buy a Bottle of Bourbon
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – The Fierceness of Holy Bull
Bloodhorse – Dick Downey – KY Supreme Court Throws Out McPeek Commission Claim
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – McPeek Believes Distance Will Not Faze Thorpedo Anna
Garden and Gun – Emily Daily – A Rare Outer Banks Foal Gets a Second Chance
Paulick Report – Jim Chavrat – Edwin Maldonado: Demon On The Front End, Mentor In The Jock’s Room
TSN – Blues excited by offer sheets: ‘Good to see some fight from the management’
Phil has a question:
Are the player or their agents more excited now that the Blues have shown a propensity to pay double of what a player is worth.
The Ringer – Adam Nayman – The Defiance and Detachment of Zoë Kravitz’s ‘Blink Twice’
Phil has a question:
Have you ever stepped on a Lego in bare feet.
Sports Business Journal – Angel Reese lands endorsement deal with Reese’s
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – City of Troy Spectacular in Juddmonte International Win
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Virgil
Tasting Table – Eibhlis Gale-Coleman – What Kind Of Cheese Does Costco Use On Its Food Court Pizzas?
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – Citizen Bull Strikes for Power Partnership at Del Mar
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind
“I am trying to stamp Thorpedo Anna as one of the greats,” McPeek said of the filly, who has won six of her seven races. “But I am also trying to bring new fans into the sport, to create some buzz, to show off how beautiful and thrilling horses are in full flight.”
TDN – Katie Petrunyak – “She’s Got This,” Mark Edwards Riding High with Thorpedo Anna
TDN – Mike Kane – Brown Has Sierra Leone And Unmatched Wisdom Ready For The Travers Stakes
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Where to Watch/Listen: 2024 Travers Stakes Week
Phil has a question:
Will Saratoga live up to its reputation as graveyard of favourites in the 2024 Travers Stakes.
Would the Undertaker have an answer to that if a plane flew by with a banner behind it.
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – Unraveling The Fierceness Mystery
Travers history is not without numerous examples of others upsetting the apple cart, a prominent example being Canadian invader Runaway Groom’s surprise win in 1982 over the Triple Crown race winners Conquistador Cielo, Aloma’s Ruler, and Gato Del Sol.
Brisnet – Vance Hanson – Travers pits three title aspirants and leading filly
Paulick Report – Travers Dark Horse? Chad Brown ‘Very Confident’ In 8-1 Unmatched Wisdom
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Hill Has Second Horse of a Lifetime in Dornoch
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Is an Encore on the Menu for Fierceness in Travers?
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – The Fierceness of Holy Bull
Bloodhorse – Dornoch Looks to Become Seventh to Win Haskell, Travers
Bloodhorse – Thorpedo Anna Among Numerous Travers Breezers Aug. 17
Paulick Report – Thorpedo Anna’s Gallop ‘So Strong’ McPeek Calls Audible On Gate Schooling
SportsNet – Chiefs star Travis Kelce joins cast of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’
Bloodhorse – Deep Field Awaits Book’em Danno in H. Allen Jerkens
Brisnet – Vance Hanson – Skippylongstocking bids for Charles Town Classic repeat
Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – August Rain, Classy City Meet Again in Canadian Derby
The Ringer – Miles Surrey – ‘The Crow’ Endures as a Testament to Brandon Lee’s Untapped Potential
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire
Dancing is like bank robbery; it takes split-second timing.
Twyla Tharp
Phil M Stockmen
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