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San Gabriel S (GIIT) $200k g 3&up 9f Turf

 

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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


The Conversation – Kristen Dunfield – Lies about Santa? They could be good for your child

A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.”

The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?” The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

“What did I tell you?” said the barber. “That kid never learns!”

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream parlor. “Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?”

The boy licked his cone and replied: “Because the day I take the dollar the game is over!”


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Darling Be Home Soon

Phil’s Christmas Eve Drinks and Flicks

World Peace

All Quiet On The Western Front

All Quiet On The Western Front

Amazing Grace

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

Jake Tapper

Red Hot Honey

Beautiful Girls

Be For Real

Carol

It appears that people weren’t afraid to say “Merry Christmas.” They just didn’t care. A real shift has occurred, not because of animosity but because of apathy. In 2005, roughly equal portions of Americans told Pew Research that they wanted stores to say “Merry Christmas” and that they didn’t care what stores said (with another 12 percent favoring “Happy holidays” or “Season’s greetings”). Over the next decade, those numbers diverged. By 2017, less than a third (32 percent) preferred “Merry Christmas,” while more than half (52 percent) said it didn’t matter which greeting stores used.

The Atlantic – Graham – The War on Christmas Is Winning

Spirit in the Sky

Atlas Obscura – Schultz – The Satisfaction of Mathematically Efficient Christmas Cookies

Fairy Tale of New York

Horse Race Insider – UPDATE FINAL: SANTA ANITA’S OPENING DAY ALL-GRADED-STAKES LATE PICK 4 NOW POSTED

Galway Bay

TDN – Santa Anita Opens with Boxing Day Bonanza

Paulick Report – Victor Ryan – Free Online ShowVivor Contest Returns To Santa Anita Dec. 26

New York Times – Joan Nathan – A Hanukkah-Ready Recipe That Does Everything Right

In The Air Tonight

LA Weekly – Isai Rocha – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Park

2017 Hollywood Derby

2017 Hollywood Derby Winner

You Keep Me Hangin’ On

Santa’s Got A Mean Machine

Esquire – What I’ve Learned: Billie Joe Armstrong

Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

Samuel Beckett

2015 Malibu Stakes

The Athletic – Michael Russo – Utah’s NHL future looks bright after ‘frustrating’ years in Arizona: ‘No excuses anymore’

FairyTale of New York

It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Michael Pollan

Both Sides Now

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

Steven Wright

Silent Night

Q. How is Christmas exactly like your job?

A. You do all the work and some fat guy in a suit gets all the credit.

Southern Loving – Abby Fribush – 24 Christmas Recipes Perfect For Two

Spirits in the Material World

ESPN – Rachel Doerrie – Top players, teams to watch at 2025 World Junior Championship

In Between Days

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon

FairyTale Of New York

“I’ve been told it’s insulting to gays; I don’t understand how that works,” he said.

“Nobody in the band thinks that’s worth a second’s thought.

“The word was used by the character because it fitted with the way she would speak and with her character.

“She is not supposed to be a nice person or even a wholesome person. She is a woman of a certain generation at a certain time in history and she is down on her luck and desperate.

“Her dialogue is as accurate as I could make it but she is not intended to offend.

“She is just supposed to be an authentic character.

“Not all characters in songs and stories are angels or even decent and respectable, sometimes characters in songs and stories have to be evil or nasty in order to tell the story effectively.”

LAD Bible – Dominic Smither – Shane MacGowan responded to backlash over homophobic slur in Fairytale of New York

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

The Ringer – Sheil Kapadia – NFL Week 16 Under Review: One Question for Each Team in the AFC Playoff Picture

Six White Boomers

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Steven Wright

Silent Night

Parade – Renee Hanlon – What Is Eggnog, Exactly?

Bourbon Eggnog

Gimme Shelter

Let’s have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn

Live Through the Night

Another difference is that males grow their antlers in the spring and drop them in December. Females, on the other hand, keep their antlers until spring after their calves are born. Then, they start growing new ones immediately.

This raises the question of whether or not Santa’s team of reindeer may, in fact, be female. If the males drop their antlers before Christmas and the females hang onto them for much longer, it would appear that Santa’s sleigh is being led by the girls!

Parade – Renee Hanlon – Huh? Do Female Reindeer Have Antlers?

It’s Christmas Eve! It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.

Bill Murray

Coming Home

What Did Santa Say to the two legged reindeer.

Come on. Eileen

Fairytale of New York

What do you call a kid who doesn’t believe in Santa:

A Rebel without a Claus.

Run, Run Rudolph

Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit)

Clement Clarke Moore

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

And Mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the roof there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,
tore open the shutter, and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
gave the lustre of midday to objects below,

when, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came,
and he whistled and shouted and called them by name:
“Now Dasher! Now Dancer!
Now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid!
On, Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch!
To the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away!
Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky
so up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head and was turning around,
down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes–how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.

He had a broad face and a little round belly,
that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
and I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
and filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.

And laying his finger aside of his nose,
and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

Six White Boomers

Ho, Ho Ho

Santa Claus

Sometime Around Midnight

Atlas Obscura – Matthew Christopher – Tragedy Lingers Inside Chornobyl’s Abandoned City

I Believe In Father Christmas

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

Grand Kyiv Ballet – The Nutcracker

Southern Living – 54 Christmas Desserts That’ll Feed A Crowd

Nanaimo Bars

All The Gifts I Need

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve – of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. 

Tom Wolfe

FairyTale Of New York

Galway Bay

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. 

Joyce Carol Oates

Tory Avery – What is Shabbat?

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

The only good reason to ride a bull is to meet a nurse.

Cowboy wisdom

The Lonely Bull

Bon Appetit – Samuelsson and Yam – Jacques Pépin’s 5 Pro Tips for Home Cooking

Southern Living – BBQ Brisket And Latkes: How One Editor’s Family Celebrates Hanukkah In Memphis

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? 

Oliver St. John

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.

George Carlin

Road To Nowhere

Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

Aaron Koblin

2013 Hollywood Derby

Garden and Gun – Tom Wilmes – Demystifying the Art of Bourbon Tasting

1984 Breeders Cup Classic

Fairytale of New York

Show Me How To Live

A Traditional French Christmas Menu

Mustang Sally

Esquire – Michael Paterniti – On the Road with the Big Red Dirigible of Christmas Love

Music is the space between the notes.

Claude Debussy

Claus v. Claus

Free ticket to circus like gold ring on merry-go-round – make enjoyment double.

Charlie Chan

Taste of Home – Mulvey – Here’s What Happened to the Christmas Goose

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Marcus Terentius Varro

Mash Christmas

Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating his Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”

Mother Goose

Little Jack Horner
Sat on a corner,
Watching the girls go by;
Along came a beauty,
He said “Hey there cutie”,
And that’s how he got his black eye!

Peeking Goose

Ooh Las Vegas

2013 Malibu Stakes

2014 Malibu Stakes

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Nikola Tesla

Good Vibrations

Sports Business Journal – Christmas Day games represents new chapter in NFL, Netflix ambitions

As It Was


Phil M Stockmen

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