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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.

Fairy Tale of New York

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

The Conversation – Aidin McGartland and Linglan Zhu –  From bells to choirs, different ‘timbres’ ring in the Christmas holiday season


le dimanche 22 decembre

ESPN – Baseball great Rickey Henderson dies at 65

The Athletic – Michael Rosenwald – Rickey Henderson, Baseball’s Flamboyant ‘Man of Steal,’ Dies at 65

Phil’s Drink and a Flick

Charlie Brown

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Charlie Brown Christmas Dance

Esquire – Josh Rosenberg – The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All Time

Killing Me Softly

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

ScreenRant – Alex Capriati – A Charlie Brown Christmas: 10 Little-Known Facts About The Animated Special You Didn’t Know

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

Bon Appetit – Sam Stone – Which Bourbon Is Best? A Taste Test of Knob Creek, Michter’s, Bulleit, and more

Christmas Wrapping

Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.

Dean Smith

New York Times – The Wirecutter – Samantha Schoech – 21 Great Hanukkah Gift Ideas

Hanukkan Song

Challah

Do-Re-Mi

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

Robb Report – Abby Montanez – Shohei Ohtani’s 50th Home Run Baseball Just Became the Most Expensive Ever Sold at Auction

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

Silver Bells

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

TDN – Chris McGrath – Stage is Set For Another Gunther Masterclass

Spirit of Radio

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – Horses for courses: say hello to racing’s team of popular equine ambassadors

A party without cake is just a meeting.

Julia Child

Lithium

The Conversation – Sam Routley – Chrystia Freeland’s resignation seems carefully aimed at removing a sitting prime minister

Fairytale of New York

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 Weight

The Ringer – The 50 Best Airplane Movies, Ranked

BookBub – G.G. Andrew – 14 of the Best Books to Read on a Plane

Roasted Sweet N Sour Beets

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

Lola

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

Agent Provocateur

Esquire – Huber – Willie Nelson: What I’ve Learned

Transmission

Things aren’t different. Things are things.

William Gibson

Bloodhorse – Byron King – Major Dude Asserts Command in Ft. Lauderdale Stakes

Any Major Dude

If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus.

James Maxton

Times Like These

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.

America’s Best Racing – Julie June Stewart – Reflections on Hollywood Park’s Special Place in Horse Racing History

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.

Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett | Celadon Books

Sometime After Midnight

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Pagones – Great racetracks we have lost: Hollywood Park and the dawning of the Breeders’ Cup era

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

Hollywood Park

Los Angeles Times – Steve Lopez – Column: The time for excuses is over. L.A.’s MacArthur Park needs a champion now

MacArthur Park

Counting Cookies

Rolling Stone – Jon Dolan – The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Food and Wine – Merilyn Miller – 5 Surprising Facts You Should Know About Cheese, According to an Expert

Garden and Gun – Helen Bradshaw – Musicians Pick Their Favorite Holiday Albums of All Time

In The End

Mental Floss – Ellen Guteskoy – 8 Fascinating Facts About ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’

Immigrant Song

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.

Starlight

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

Ugly Sweater Blues

Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – CARF Will Not Pursue Winter-Spring Dates at Pleasanton

Undark – Sarah Scoles – Book Review: The Alchemy That Powers the Modern World

RadioActive

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

Times Like These

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

Pale Blue Eyes

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.

Pale Blue Eyes

Bloodhorse – Byron King – Be Your Best Displays Versatility in Suwannee River

Behind Blue Eyes

Garden and Gun – Helen Bradshaw – Only in the South: Seven Rare Livestock Breeds With Roots in the Region

Phil has a question:

Are these breeds disappearing cuz they’re not suited for factory farming.

Fairytale of New York

Paulick Report – Robert Yates – Favorite Spirit Wind Denies Fibber In Poinsettia

Surfer Girl

Audubon – Alice Sun – Winter Is the Perfect Time to Take Up Crow Watching

All I Want To Do

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

T. S. Eliot

Paulick Report – Kevin Kilroy – Saudi Crown Wins Tenacious In Near Track-Record Time In Confidence-Builder

Everybody Knows

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

Sports Illustrated – Eva Geltheim – Mike McCarthy Maintains Aaron Rodgers’s Off-Field Interests Never Distracted Packers

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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