Oct 112024
 

Study Finds – Sophia Naughton – The Ultimate Guide To Halloween 2024: Costumes, Candy, Movies, and More

Tonight, Tonight

Southern Living – Kait Hanson – 15 Thrilling Books To Read This Spooky Season To Keep You On The Edge Of Your Seat


Friday November 1, 2024

Saturday November 2, 2024

Del Mar

America’s Best Racing – Breeders’ Cup


Fred Hilts passed away October 6, 2024

Frederick George Hilts


Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Nicholas Godfrey – It’s not good to talk: trail-blazing female Nanako Fujita quits after breaking mobile phone rules in Japan

Canadian Thoroughbred – Jennifer Morrison – Infinite Patience Goes Out a Winner, Takes Third Ballerina

Phil has a question:

Did RNH name the horse after what the Oilers’ fans need to have.

TDN – “Amazing” City Of Troy To Stand At Coolmore Ireland After Breeders’ Cup Tilt

Trash City

Canadian Thoroughbred – Jockey Club Releases NA Foal Crop News, Stallions, Mares Bred

Los Angeles Times – Jack Harris: Dodgers vanquish recent postseason frustrations in NLDS Game 5 win over Padres

Phil has a question:

Could MLB get lucky and have 2 New York – Los Angeles series this year.

I Am I Said

Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge.

Front Office Sports Eric Fisher – New York’s Baseball Resurgence Sets Stage for LCS Drama

After 19 years of marriage, I find it very sad that we have to pay someone to teach us how to interact.

Carmela Soprano

Bloodhorse – Six-Time Leading New York Sire Freud Retired

Sometimes a Cigar is just a race horse.

Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge.

Crazy

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Ulysses S. Grant

Paulick Report – Unionization Of New York Backstretch Workers Gains Momentum

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Alfred Adler

Under Pressure

Under Pressure

Paulick Report – Natalie – Voss: Jockeys, Please Give This New Tool A Chance

The Ringer – Alan Siegel – A Timely Rewatch of the First Episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – The big Breeders’ Cup question: can City Of Troy win the Classic on the dirt?

Summer in the City

Bloodhorse – Racing Post – James Thomas and Tom Peacock – Amo Racing Lands Record-Breaking Colt at Tattersalls

Horse Race Insider – John Pricci – MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN 2024 AMERICA; “CUCKOO’S NEST 2.0” NEEDS AWARENESS AND SUPPORT

TDN – HISA and Jockeys’ Guild Announce Groundbreaking Jockey Mental Health Initiative with Onrise

The Conversation – Vincent Wong  and Jamie Chai Yun Liew – R v. Kloubakov: Supreme Court of Canada ignores sex workers in case on sex work

The Ringer – Katie Baker – Alonso. Lindor. Grimace. The magical Mets have come so far, and they could keep going.


ABC NET – AU – Bill Birtles – Why a lush horseracing track with 182 years of tradition is being torn up to make way for affordable housing

Oldest US Horse Racing Track Freehold Raceway Closing December 28


ESPN – Greg Wyshynski – The NHL 2024-25 season guide: Key players, teams, stories

Phil has a question:

If Jake Neighbours has a breakout season with the Blues, how high will the Oilers’ offer sheet be.


It is with great sadness we pass along the unfortunate news that Trainer Shelley Brown has passed away.
A lover of all things horse from a young age, Shelley was no stranger to horses or racing when she decided to make a trip from Regina to Winnipeg to watch a few races. Reflecting on that trip she later joked it was almost the trip that didn’t happen. Having issues with her truck less than half way into her trip she could have turned around and headed home, but she ended up at Assiniboia Downs.
Paving her own way, in 2009 Shelley brought a handful of horses back to Winnipeg and started her training career at Assiniboia Downs and never looked back. Proving that hard work will get you everywhere, in 2012 Shelley wrote her own page in the ASD history books as she became the first woman to win the leading trainer title. She became an inspiration to so many, a position she never asked for but wore proudly.
Shelley continued to mentor, coach, teach and advise in her racing career and in the horse community leaving a sea of better riders, competitors, future trainers, and grooms behind her.
To know Shelley was to truly know determination, and grit. If she put her mind to something it was going to happen. She proved this over and over and yet again when she received the diagnosis that her fatigue was more than just the late season lack of sleep setting in.
As Real Grace stepped into the starting gate in the Grade 3 Canadian Derby with the odds stacked against him, Shelley watched from a hospital bed with the odds not in her favor either. Real Grace won that day, Shelley found her fight and was determined this was not how her story was going to end, and it didn’t.
Shelley rode through life jumping obstacles, and navigating a course she designed with beauty, class and determination. In the end she let go of the reins and trusted her horse to take her across the finish line and lead her home. She did it her way.
On behalf of the HBPA Board of Directors and the Membership we represent, we would like to offer our sincere and heartfelt condolences to Shelley’s family and friends. We hope you find comfort in the memories and stories shared. May Shelley’s memory live on in every life she has touched.
Manitoba HBPA

The Ringer – How the ‘Pulp Fiction’ Poster Became a Dorm Room Staple

Phil has an answer:

Uma Thurman

The Ringer – The 85 Best Quentin Tarantino Characters Ever, Ranked

Stuck In The Middle with You

The Conversation – Charles Marty – Fall is here: Why do some trees lose their leaves while others stay green?

Four Strong Winds

Paulick Report – Report: Stuart Janney Dispersal Doesn’t Mean He’s Exiting Industry

Bloodhorse – Tom Precious – NYRA Eyes Hosting Breeders’ Cup After Belmont Rebuild

TDN – T.D. Thornton – Belmont Rebuild: Tapeta Training Possible Spring ’25; Option Still Open for ’26 Belmont Stakes to Revert Downstate

Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Jack Haynes – Loughnane Chases First G1 Win in QEII Cup at Keeneland

Los Angeles Times – Jackie Calmes – Column: When Trump talks ‘bad genes’ and ‘racehorse theory,’ he is telling us who he is

Phil has a question:

Has demented Donald ever looked at the genes of many of the bottom claimers.

National Post – AP – Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, more than a million without power

The Score – Simon Sharkey-Gotlieb – Tropicana Field roof shredded by Hurricane Milton

Phil has a question:

Who’s going to pay for the repairs.

The Ringer – Nora Princiotti – The Jets Were Always Going to Blame Robert Saleh. But Why Did They Fire Him Now?

Benny and the Jets


Phil M Stockmen

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