Thursday December 26, 2024
Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Malibu Day PPs
American Oaks (GIT) | $300k g | 3yo f | 10f | Turf | |||
La Brea S Presented by Don Julio (GI) | $300k g | 3yo f | 7f | Dirt | |||
Mathis Brothers Mile (GIIT) | $200k g | 3yo | 8f | Turf | |||
Malibu S (GI) | $300k g | 3yo | 7f | Dirt | |||
Laffit Pincay Jr. (GII) | $200k g | 3&up | 8.5f | Dirt | |||
San Gabriel S (GIIT) | $200k g | 3&up | 9f | Turf |
TDN – Santa Anita Wagering Menu Out For Classic And Hollywood Meets
While you’re waiting and anticipating the Malibu and the opening of Santa Anita’s winter meet Yule, Christmas, Chanukah, Boxing Day, the Feast of Saint Stephen and the Feast of Jordan enjoy a few of Phil’s favourite readings, drinks, flicks, Carols, Christmas and other tunes. If you’re waiting for Kwanzaa go sleep in a hut with Jabba.
And Remember that ofttimes Phil just gotta give into the URGE.
Phil has a question:
Will Phil ever tire of that.
Phil has a question:
Will Phil ever tire of that.
And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
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ESPN – Baseball great Rickey Henderson dies at 65
Esquire – Josh Rosenberg – The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All Time
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
Bob Phillips
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.”
George Foreman
New York Times – Wirecutter – My 16 Favorite Gifts for the Hard-to-Please
Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.
Dean Smith
New York Times – The Wirecutter – Samantha Schoech – 21 Great Hanukkah Gift Ideas
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Rare Derby Winner Sighting Icing on Santa Anita Opener
TDN – Mystik Dan Arrives Safely and Gallops at Santa Anita, Citizen Bull Works
How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.
Michael Pollan
Phil has a question:
How much would Prat’s silks from the record setting stakes win and possible record setting graded stakes win fetch on the open market.
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
TDN – Chris McGrath – Stage is Set For Another Gunther Masterclass
A party without cake is just a meeting.
Julia Child
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – Built Bursts Onto Derby Trail With Gun Runner Score
TDN – Built Different: Hard Spun Colt Romps in Gun Runner Stakes
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Chief Seattle
The Ringer – The 50 Best Airplane Movies, Ranked
BookBub – G.G. Andrew – 14 of the Best Books to Read on a Plane
Phil has a question:
If we don’t call it a carrot root then why do some stoopid Americans call it beet root.
Beet Leaf Rolls with Creamy Dill Sauce
Bloodhorse – Pete Denk – Rocket Can Rallies for Upset in Harlan’s Holiday
TDN – Straight and Strong: Rocket Can Gamely Upsets Harlan’s Holiday Foes
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Provocateur Enters Stud at McMahon of Saratoga
Esquire – Huber – Willie Nelson: What I’ve Learned
Things aren’t different. Things are things.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Major Dude Asserts Command in Ft. Lauderdale Stakes
Hard to believe that XI years have crossed the finish line 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
Rolling Stone – Jon Dolan – The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time
Garden and Gun – Helen Bradshaw – Musicians Pick Their Favorite Holiday Albums of All Time
Mental Floss – Ellen Guteskoy – 8 Fascinating Facts About ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’
Mashed – Big Changes Are Coming To Your Favorite Pizza Chains In 2025
Phil has a question:
How does Little Caesar’s stay in business.
Will any of the chains improve their product.
Bloodhorse – Tom Precious – N.Y. Begins Process of Selecting Asmussen Monitor
Los Angeles Times – Gabriel San Roman – Disney agrees to $233-million settlement in wage theft case
Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.
Cowboy Wisdom
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – CARF Will Not Pursue Winter-Spring Dates at Pleasanton
Undark – Sarah Scoles – Book Review: The Alchemy That Powers the Modern World
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Horse Race Insider – MYSTIK DAN: MALIBU POST 6
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.
Franklin P. Jones
Bloodhorse – Tracy Gantz – Mystik Dan Takes on the West in Malibu
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
Bloodhorse – Molly Rollins – Her Laugh Has Last Joke in Untapable Stakes Romp
Paulick Report – Kevin Kilroy – Her Laugh Zips Gate To Wire To Win Untapable
Pen and the Pad – Janney – A Description of the Ghosts in “A Christmas Carol”
That’s a good trivia question. Everyone remembers the ghosts of Christmas past, present and Yet to Come, but most forget that the first ghost that Scrooge sees is the ghost of his business partner Jacob Marley.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Be Your Best Displays Versatility in Suwannee River
Phil has a question:
Are these breeds disappearing cuz they’re not suited for factory farming.
Paulick Report – Robert Yates – Favorite Spirit Wind Denies Fibber In Poinsettia
Audubon – Alice Sun – Winter Is the Perfect Time to Take Up Crow Watching
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot
Je suis comme ça. Ou j’oublie tout de suite ou je n’oublie jamais.”
Samuel Beckett
Front Office Sports – David Rumsey – Home Teams Sweep First On-Campus CFP Games
Phil has a question:
If the Jets were 15 – 0 would anyone be talking about the weird neighbourhoods that Rodgers is frequenting.
You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing.
Dean Smith
Phil M Stockmen
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