Saturday November 2, 2024
Del Mar
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh
Phil has a question:
Where are all the prop bets.
You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!
Dr. Seuss
Phil has a reminder:
All the feel good stories and $2.95US will get you a coffee at Starbucks.
#1 – Forever Young
Back for redemption
Next clunker will be his first
Clean start, and he’s live
#2 – Highland Falls
Strong prep on paper
Paper-thin competition
What does that leave us?
#3 – City of Troy
Giant’s Causeway’s ghost
Has taken a new vessel
Tiznow can’t save us
#4 – Mixto
Pacific upset
A flimsy field in hindsight
Not convinced he’s good
#5 – Senor Buscador
Saudi Cup victor
Middle East bounce hit him hard
Best going shorter
#6 – Derma Sotogake
Flair for surprises
But his form’s sideways this year
Can’t get too enthused
#7 – Ushba Tesoro
Far-behind closer
Might not always hit target
But he’ll sure get close
#8 – Pyrenees
If this were the Clark
I’d be much more excited
As it stands, passing
#9 – Fierceness
Two Eclipse Awards
Decided by his effort
One of them is gold
#10 – Tapit Trice
Beat three in Woodward
At some point in these races
Someone had to win
#11 – Sierra Leone
Needs more real estate
Like Century 21
Always runs his race
#12 – Arthur’s Ride
“Lead hypnosis” type
That tactic could have worked here
With a better post
#13 – Newgate
Good layoff return
Del Mar record is shaky
Wins or off the board
#14 – Next
Marathon titan
Shouldn’t be hindered starting
From the parking lot
#15AE – Rattle N Roll
Back from a long rest
Live in any Grade 3 race
Far from comfort zone
Prediction
U.S. blanked in tri
Forever Young over “Troy”
Nine, fourteen follow
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – Breeders’ Cup Classic: Three Potential Live Overlays
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – Breeders’ Cup Analysis: So Much to Sort Out
TDN – Steve Sherack – Selections for Breeders’ Cup Saturday at Del Mar
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Forever Young Seeks BC Classic After KY Derby Near Miss
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
TwinSpires – James Scully – Betting with, and against, City of Troy in Breeders’ Cup Classic
TwinSpires – Kellie Heilly – Top five questions of 2024 Breeders’ Cup: A Classic for the ages?
Paulick Report – ‘He’s Made Us All Proud’: Next Enters Classic On Seven-Race Win Streak
Paulick Report – Classic Win Would Rocket Fierceness To Top Of Mike Repole’s Greatest Hits
TwinSpires – The Breeders’ Cup Betting Guide: Expert Picks & Handicapping Analysis 2024
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra
TwinSpires – James Scully – Longshots to consider for 2024 Breeders’ Cup
TwinSpires – James Scully – 2024 Breeders’ Cup: Betting the Breeders’ Cup Saturday Late Pick 5
Bloodhorse – Brewster Looking Forward to Cogburn’s Turf Sprint Try
TDN – Katie Petrunyak – One Last Breeders’ Cup Dance for Moira, Then on to Fasig-Tipton
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – Carl Spackler’s BC Mile Bid a ‘Family Affair’
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Mile
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile
Paulick Report – South Africa’s Isivunguvungu Hopes To Take Breeders’ Cup By Storm
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – South African ‘Storm’ Set to Hit Breeders’ Cup
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Turf
TDN – HISA Calls for Delay to Start of Turf Paradise Meet
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Henri Matisse Wins Juvenile Turf, O’Brien’s 20th BC Win
Brisnet – Kellie Reilly – Henri Matisse paints masterpiece in Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf
Phil has a question:
What is the favourite software at Horse Racing Alberta.
Phil has an answer:
Windows.
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Citizen Bull Wires Field in Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
ESPN – AP – Baffert’s horses finish 1-2 in $2 million Juvenile at Del Mar
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Lake Victoria Delivers in BC Juvenile Fillies Turf
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Unbeaten Immersive Rolls to Juvenile Fillies Win
TDN – Magnum Force Gets Europe On The Board First In Juvenile Turf Sprint
Bloodhorse – Tracy Gantz – Magnum Force Overhauls Field in BC Juvenile Turf Sprint
Phil has a question:
Does he put ketchup on his hot dogs.
Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better.
Sanhita Baruah
Phil has a question:
Where are all the prop bets.
The Ringer – Lex Pryor – In the End, the Yankees Were Unserious, Relentless Losers
Garden and Gun – Tom Wilmes – Meet the Woman Behind the Bourbon Judged Tops in the Country
New York Times – Joe Drape – Breeders’ Cup Arrives in California, Where Horse Racing Is Struggling
Phil has a question:
Which set of sports fans gets more pissed at Drape – the sports fans who could care less about horse racing for Drape wasting paper on horse racing or the horse racing fans for Drape always managing to rain on their big day parades with negative racing articles.
Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – The More Things Change … The More They Change
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you.
Dr. Seuss
The problem is that social scientists don’t seem to know how to incorporate the nonlinearity of chaos. For how can disciplines such as psychology, sociology, economics and political science anticipate the world-changing effects of something as small as one consequential day of sightseeing or as ephemeral as passing clouds?
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Chaos theory, to this day, explains why our weather forecasts remain useless beyond a week or two. To predict meteorological changes accurately, we, like Laplace’s demon, would have to be perfect in our understanding of weather systems, and – no matter how advanced our supercomputers may seem – we never will be. Confidence in a predictable future, therefore, is the province of charlatans and fools; or, as the US theologian Pema Chödrön put it: ‘If you’re invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.’
Aeon – Brian Klaas – The forces of chance
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau
TDN – Steve Sherack – Breeders’ Cup Weekend is Here!
Phil has a reminder:
All the feel good stories and $2.95US will get you a coffee at Starbucks.
TwinSpires – Kellie Reilly – Five questions to be answered on 2024 Breeders’ Cup Future Stars Friday
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – Breeders’ Cup Analysis: So Much to Sort Out
TwinSpires – J Keeler Johnson – Breeders’ Cup 2024: Friday contenders under the radar
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf
What did you expect? ‘Welcome, Sonny?’ ‘Make yourself at home?’ ‘Marry my daughter?’ You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know. Morons!
The Waco Kid
Q. Why don’t the minions at Horse Racing Alberta stare out their windows in the morning.
A. Then, they’d have nothing to do in the afternoon.
Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge.
Morning at the Window
T.S. Eliot
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.,
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs
TDN – Steve Sherack -Saratoga: The Fall Place to Be
This Is Horse Racing – Joe Clancy – Breeders’ Cup conversations
Phil has a question:
Have you ever met anyone who has won a prize in McDonald’s Monopoly for collecting properties or airports.
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Rigney Hopes to Hit the Exacta in BC Juvenile
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Mage Paved the Way to BC Juvenile for Ferocious
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Plenty of Common Ties for Thought Process, Iron Man Cal
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint
TwinSpires – 2024 Breeders’ Cup Special Daily Doubles & Special Pick’n’ Betting Guide
TwinSpires – The Breeders’ Cup Betting Guide: Expert Picks & Handicapping Analysis 2024
TwinSpires – James Scully – Longshots to consider for 2024 Breeders’ Cup
Bloodhorse – Three Things You Might Not Know About: Thorpedo Anna
Forbes – Guy Martin – Breeders’ Cup 2024: How Thorpedo Anna Will Win The $2-Million Distaff
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Distaff
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – Betting the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Classic on different budgets
TwinSpires – J Keeler Johnson – Breeders’ Cup 2024: Saturday contenders under the radar
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Turf
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Mile
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – Carl Spackler’s BC Mile Bid a ‘Family Affair’
Paulick Report – South Africa’s Isivunguvungu Hopes To Take Breeders’ Cup By Storm
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – South African ‘Storm’ Set to Hit Breeders’ Cup
Secretariat.com – Steve Haskin – Breeders’ Cup Classic: Three Potential Live Overlays
Paulick Report – ‘He’s Made Us All Proud’: Next Enters Classic On Seven-Race Win Streak
TDN – HISA Calls for Delay to Start of Turf Paradise Meet
Paulick Report – Classic Win Would Rocket Fierceness To Top Of Mike Repole’s Greatest Hits
Speedmeister’s half sister, Awesome Result, the 7 for 7 Japanese based mare is in mighty tough against Thorpedo Anna in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Delmar on Saturday, November 2, 2024 but you gotta take a chance when you get it. The daughter of Justify has caught 6 off tracks in 7 races and only one fast track and had no difficulty in handling distance.
Speedmeister who stands at Empire Equestrian southeast of Sherwood Park, AB is by Bodemeister out of the Deputy Minister Mare, Blossomed, Awesome Result’s dame.
Bloodhorse – Three Things You Might Not Know About: Awesome Result
Paulick Report – Counterforce Relocated To Empire Equestrian In Alberta For 2025
Bloodhorse – Keeler Johnson’s 2024 Breeders’ Cup Selections
ESPN – Anita Marks – Betting the 2024 Breeders’ Cup: Picks, odds, favorites
Bloodhorse – Breeders’ Cup Releases Post Times, Wagering Menu
America’s Best Racing – Breeders’ Cup
Phil has a question:
What word do you think they’re missing.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history, and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Humpty Pumpkin sat on a wall
Humpty Pumpkin had a great fall
All the ghoul’s horses and all the goblin men
Enjoyed pumpkin pie again and again and again.
Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.
Ray Bradbury
Mr. Sabathia’s wife, Amber Sabathia, is essentially the executive producer of the operation. She estimates that between 2,000 and 3,000 children stop by their home each year.
New York Times – Years After His Yankees Retirement, C. C. Sabathia Is Mr. October 31st.
The Score – Simon Sharkey-Gotlieb – Dodgers hold off Yankees to win 8th World Series title
Front Office Sports – Eric Fisher – Money Well Spent: Dodgers Top Yankees in World Series
The Ringer – Zach Kram – An Anatomy of the Inning That Doomed the Yankees’ Season
Phil has a question:
Did the Yankee fan flashing the “It ain’t over, til it’s over” sign realize that maybe Yogi was talking about a game when you have a no hitter and 5 run lead.
ESPN – Alden Gonzalez – Dodgers defeat Yankees in World Series after Game 5 comeback
ESPN – Jorge Castillo – Yankees lament fifth-inning meltdown in World Series finale
You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
Yogi Berra
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – European Horseplayers Strongly Backing City of Troy
Be wary of Greeks bearing gifts.
Virgil
Bloodhorse – Tracy Gantz – MyRacehorse Hopes for Seize the Grey in Dirt Mile
Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.
Ray Bradbury
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
The Three Witches
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Invincible Spirit Retired From Stud Duties at 27
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Lord Byron
TDN – Steve Sherack – Wednesday’s Breeders’ Cup Report: Thorpedo Anna ‘Owned it Out There’
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
The Three Witches
TSN – CP – Elks name Morris as team president and CEO
A deed without a name.
The Three Wicthes
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Breeders’ Cup Contenders Train at Del Mar Oct. 30
My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
“Fair is foul and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
The Three Witches
Q. What is a witch’s favourite subject in school.
A. Spelling.
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Tom Pedulla – DeVaux Has Strong Breeders’ Cup Presence
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Attard Looks to Clinch First BC Victory in F&M Turf
The moon’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
John M. Grunsfeld
Bloodhorse – Byron King, Joe Perez and Sean Collins – Abreu Looking for First Breeders’ Cup Win
Pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the moon could give a person.
Haruki Murakami
Paulick Report – Flightline Share Brings Top Price At Inaugural Championship Sale At Del Mar
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – Tipsheet: 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
Phil has a question:
Have you ever met anyone who has won a prize in McDonald’s Monopoly for collecting properties or airports.
TwinSpires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint
TwinSpires – The Breeders’ Cup Betting Guide: Expert Picks & Handicapping Analysis 2024
She was like the moon, half here and half somewhere else.
Meeta Ahluwalia
The Ringer – Alan Seigel – Don’t Fall Asleep: The Oral History of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
Frankenstein
I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.
Wednesday Addams
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
Esquire – Ryan D’Agostino – In Road Diary, Bruce Springsteen Stares Down the End
Study Finds – Amy Chodroff – Mahjong: The most exciting way to prevent dementia and boost your brain
The Score – Bryan McWilliam – Yankees rout Dodgers in Game 4, stay alive in World Series
Forbes – Guy Martin – Breeders’ Cup 2024: Post Positions, Odds And Fierceness’ Hard Run
Paulick Report – Breeders’ Cup The Centerpiece Of Del Mar Meet Featuring 20 Of Its Own Stakes Races
Phil has a question:
Where did O’Brien learn his cliches.
Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.
Linus
Phil has a question:
Was Linus waiting in the pumpkin patch on the wrong night.
Does the great pumpkin rise just after midnight as Halloween Day begins or just before midnight on All Halloweds’ Eve.
Paulick Report – Steve Asmussen ‘Has Run Out Of Superlatives’ For Record-Setting Cogburn
Bloodhorse – Tracy Gantz – Domestic Product Favored in Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile
Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?
Linus
Forbes – Dan Alexander – Here’s How Much Money Trump Owes And Who Stands To Collect
Phil has a question:
If Don the Con wins will the US Bankruptcy Code have Chapter 24 added – Don the Con pays no one.
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Tom Peacock – BC Hopefuls on Offer in Championship Sale at Del Mar
Q. How do you fix a broken Jack O’Lantern.
A. With a pumpkin patch.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
TDN – Bill Finley – Emma-Jayne Wilson in ICU With Neck and Pelvic Fractures
Twin Spires – John Mucciolo – How to bet the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf
TDN – Steve Sherack – Tuesday’s Breeders’ Cup Report: Classic Contenders Take the ‘City’ by Storm
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the moon.
Galileo Galilei
Horse Race Insider – John Pricci – BREEDERS’ CUP BABIES ARE ABOUT TO GO THROUGH THEIR A-B-C’s
Paulick Report – Will Walden: ‘A Week Like This Puts Everything In Perspective’
The Ringer – Steven Ruiz – NFL QB Rankings
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
Phil has a question:
Will the witches bee out with their brooms tonight.
ESPN – Jeff Passan – World Series: Inside the 48 hours that got Shohei Ohtani back
ESPN – Jorge Castillo – Yankees again let down by offense in World Series Game 3 loss
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
DRF – David Grening – Breeders’ Cup: Non Compliant, Out On Bail scratched
The pool features 38 individual betting interests as well as options for “All Fillies Foaled in 2022” and “All Other Colts and Geldings Foaled in 2022.”
Bloodhorse – First 2025 Kentucky Derby Future Wager Begins Oct. 30
DRF – Marcus Hersh – Breeders’ Cup Friday: Discount the overseas shippers at your peril
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Brown’s Zulu Kingdom Battles Europeans in Juvenile Turf
Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?
Doc Holliday
Paulick Report – Joe Nevills – What Do Farms Owe Us When One Of Their Horses Dies?
The Ringer – Tyler Parker – Into the Bowels of Steve Ballmer’s Toiletopia
DRF – David Grening – Breeders’ Cup: City of Troy lands post 3 as Classic favorite
TDN – Alan Carasso – City of Troy Draws Three, Made 5-2 Choice For Breeders’ Cup Classic
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Fierceness, City of Troy Among Stars in BC Classic
Paulick Report – City Of Troy Favored Over Fierceness For Breeders’ Cup Classic
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Will Distaff be Cherry on Top of Thorpedo Anna’s Year?
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – War Like Goddess Gets Preferred Distance in F&M Turf
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Rebel’s Romance Looking to Make History in Turf
Bloodhorse – Milly Rollins – Euros, Led by Notable Speech, Loom Tough in BC Mile
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Straight No Chaser, Federal Judge to Tangle in Sprint
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst -Top European Sprinters Await Cogburn in Breeders’ Cup
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Chancer McPatrick Takes Aim at Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Immersive, Others Eye Championship in Juvenile Fillies
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Juvenile Fillies Turf Awaits Undefeated Lake Victoria
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Society Leads Homebred Cohort in BC Filly & Mare Sprint
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Jack Haynes – Arc Winner Bluestocking Retired From Racing
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Tom Pedulla – Jockey Davis Looks Forward to 2024 Breeders’ Cup
Bloodhorse – Canadian Horseman Edwards Dies at 59
I like to think that the moon is there, even if I am not looking at it.
Albert Einstein
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Edgar Allan Poe
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Groucho Marx
Sports Business Journal – Yankees-Dodgers World Series draw best viewership start since 2017
Horse Race Insider – BREEDERS CUP NOTES: THE EUROPEAN REPORT
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Steven Wright
The Ringer – Steven Ruiz – The Winners and Losers of NFL Week 8
New York Times – Antira Sinha – The Wirecutter – The Best Ketchup
Phil has a question:
What is the best ketchup for a hot dog.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hot Dog Org. – Should You Put Ketchup On Hot Dogs? The Definitive Answer
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
Mashed – Mario Scinto – The Real Reason Chicagoans Don’t Put Ketchup On Their Hot Dogs
Phil has a question:
Is there a name when a tangent goes off on a tangent and then the tangent on the tangent does off on another tangent.
If you were to [walk] into any vendor of fine hot dogs, and ask for a hot dog sandwich, they would probably report you to the FBI.
Anthony Bourdain
It is not acceptable past the age of eight.
President Barack Obama, when asked if ketchup is acceptable on a hot dog
Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.
Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter
Bloodhorse – Newgate Among Those with Final Breeders’ Cup Works
TDN – City of Troy Leads Ballydoyle Ship-Ins to Del Mar, Domestic Runners Go Through Paces
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Godolphin Sweeps Derby, Oaks Preps at Churchill Downs
TDN – Top Derby Points Go To Sovereignty In A Street Sense Romp
Paulick Report – Sovereignty Wins Street Sense In Stakes Record Time At Churchill Downs
TDN – Good Cheer Stays Perfect In Rags To Riches Stakes At Churchill
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Paulick Report – Appleby: Notable Speech ‘The Horse They’ve All Got To Beat’ In Breeders’ Cup Mile
Front Office Sports – MLB Wants to Use 2024 World Series to ‘Amplify’ Marketing Efforts
Phil has a question:
How is Alberta ever going to build on the marketing success of the Breeders Cup when the fucking useless window gazing Clark Kent and the fucking useless window gazing Undertaker and their equally fucking useless staff would only notice it if it was a banner behind a slow moving hot air balloon.
Has the Undertaker ever checked a Holybull.ca post on other than company time.
Has Clark Kent ever checked a Holybull.ca post after the Undertaker scurries to his office and rats on Phil or Sal on other than company time.
With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It’s no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Phil has a question:
How long would a gazelle or lion survive if they gazed out a window all day.
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Top Juvenile Hopefuls Enter Final BC Works at Churchill
Front Office Sports – Eric Fisher – In World Series Full of Stars, Shohei Ohtani Stands Alone
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
The Ringer – Ben Lindbergh – The Dodgers and Yankees Are Even in Almost Everything But Health
The Ringer – Lex Pryor – These New York Yankees Are Built Different
The Globe and Mail – Corey Mintz – Taking (Halloween) candy from a baby: A parent’s guide
SportsNet – CP – Randy Ambrosie to end term as CFL commissioner after Grey Cup
Phil has a question:
Who you gonna call when you don’t have the Wild Thing.
TDN – The Factor Colt Atitlan Breaks Through in Twilight Derby
Bloodhorse – Bob Kieckhefer – Atitlan Gets Clean Trip to Win Twilight Derby
The Conversation – James Deaville and – Meet the composer who claimed her music channelled the spirits of classical music icons
TDN – Keeneland Closes Record-Breaking Fall Meet
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Dr. Seuss
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – Goichman’s Moment Is Here With Scythian
Bloodhorse – Kentucky Derby Winner Mystik Dan Resumes Breezing
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins and Milly Rollins – Carl Spackler, Chili Flag Finish Fast in Turf Workout
TDN – Baffert, D’Amato Breeders’ Cup Runners Highlight Santa Anita Worktab
Paulick Report – Fierceness Training ‘Every Bit As Good, If Not Better’ Than Before Travers Victory
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Fierceness, Mentee Unique as Same-Year BC Starters
The Globe and Mail – What is the best Halloween candy of all time? Cast your vote now
The only thing that really scares me about Halloween is running out of candy.
Melanie White
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – David Milnes – Gosden: Dettori to Reunite With Emily Upjohn in BC Turf
Bloodhorse – Byron King – O’Brien Chases an Elusive BC Classic With City of Troy
Garden and Gun – Caroline Hatchett – Why Do Greens Taste Sweeter After the First Frost?
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Ortiz Jr., Prat Take Rivalry to Breeders’ Cup
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Far Bridge Battles Foreign Dominance in BC Turf
Bloodhorse – J Keeler Johnson – Analyzing Japan’s 2yo Breeders’ Cup Contenders
British Columbia CTHS President Darien Edwards passed away just two weeks after his Willow Creek Farms secured its second consecutive leading-owner title.
The Ringer – Ben Lingbergh – There’s No World Series Like a Dodgers-Yankees World Series
Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge
ESPN – David Schoenfield – The history behind the Dodgers-Yankees World Series rivalry
I’ve heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven’t enough great leaders. I think we haven’t enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers – surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following – and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill
Phil M Stockmen