Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.

Marge Kennedy

Southern Living – Renu Dhar – Vegetable Soup

The New Yorker – Helen Rosner – The Many Lives of Roberto, a Soup

Roasted Pumpkin Soup

Garden and Gun – Kim Severson – Potato Soup for the Soul

Dixie Chicken

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

Paulick Report – Flavien Prat’s Breeders’ Cup Double Wins Bill Shoemaker Award

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Thorpedo Anna Dominates in Breeders’ Cup Distaff

TDN – Thorpedo Anna Caps Stellar Year with Breeders’ Cup Distaff

Brisnet – James Scully – Thorpedo Anna blitzes Distaff rivals

Paulick Report – Chelsea Hackbarth – ‘She’s A Once-In-A-Lifetime’: Thorpedo Anna Caps Massive Year With Breeders’ Cup Distaff

She’s a Rainbow

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

P. J. O’Rourke

TDN – Citizen Bull And Immersive Relish Success After Friday’s Breeders’ Cup, East Avenue Will ‘Move On’

TDN – No Bull: Into Mischief’s Citizen Bull Wires the Juvenile, Gives Baffert a Record Sixth Win

Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Citizen Bull Wires Field in Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

Paulick Report – Chelsea Hackbarth – ‘It’s Never Too Early To Get Excited About The Kentucky Derby’: Citizen Bull Leads Bob Baffert 1-2 Finish In BC Juvenile

ESPN – AP – Baffert’s horses finish 1-2 in $2 million Juvenile at Del Mar

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Bloodhorse – Byron King – No Denying Sierra Leone in Breeders’ Cup Classic

TDN – The Monkey’s Off His Back: Sierra Leone Puts It All Together In the Classic

Brisnet – Vance Hanson – Sierra Leone eclipses three-year-old and older foes in BC Classic

Paulick Report – Chelsea Hackbarth – ‘It Was His Day Today’: Sierra Leone Pounces In Breeders’ Cup Classic

ESPN – AP – Sierra Leone wins $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

TDN – Emma Berry – City Of Troy Bows Out as Triumph and Disaster Converge at Del Mar

Saveur – Emiko Davies – The Best Italian Cookbooks Are the Classics

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Athenaeus

Rock N Roll Music

TDN – Argentinean-Bred Full Serrano Surprises at 13-1 in Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile

Bloodhorse – Tracy Gantz – Full Serrano Grabs Dirt Mile for Hronis and Sadler

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

P. G. Wodehouse

TDN – More Than Ready’s More Than Looks Gives DeVaux A First Breeders’ Cup Success

Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – More Than Looks Surges to Victory in BC Mile

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

TDN – Rebel’s Romance Holds Off Japan’s Rousham Park For Second Win In the Turf

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

Henny Youngman

Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – ‘These Are The Things You Dream About As A Kid’: Moira’s Third Try The Charm For Kevin Attard In Filly & Mare Turf

TDN – Third Time’s The Charm For Moira, As Canada’s Horse Of The Year Takes Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup F&M Turf

Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Third Time’s the Charm for Moira in Filly & Mare Turf

I’m a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just portobello and shiitake, but dried porcini and morels.

Itzhak Perlman

TDN – Straight No Chaser Buzzes Down Lane To Take Breeders’ Cup Dirt Sprint

Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Straight No Chaser Triumphs in Breeders’ Cup Sprint

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Moliere

TDN – Zoustar’s Starlust Takes An Eventful Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint

Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – Starlust Shocks Burnt-Out Cogburn in Turf Sprint Upset

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

Bloodhorse – Byron King – Late Runner Soul of an Angel Upsets Filly & Mare Sprint

Paulick Report – Drayden Van Dyke Caps Comeback With 19-1 Longshot Soul Of An Angel In Filly & Mare Sprint

TDN – Stephanie Grimm – Soul of an Angel Opens Breeders’ Cup Action With Huge Price In F&M Sprint