Dec 262024
 

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


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


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This Is It

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Kin Hubbard

Los Angeles Times – John Cherwa – Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan headlines Santa Anita opening day on Thursday

Good Vibrations

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

Dr. Who

Born To Run

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

George Foreman

Phil Has a question:

Will Flavien Prat break Jerry Bailey’s Graded Stakes win record today.

You can never be too smart to know everything.
Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life.

Albert Einstein

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

Phil’s Boxing Day Drink and a Flick

Shadow Boxer

The Harder They Fall

Shadowplay

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

TDN – Letter to the Editor: Santa Anita at 90 Years–A Personal Retrospective

Tiny Dancer 

Southern Living – Melissa Locker – 14 Things Professional Organizers Always Toss From Their Homes

Phil has a question:

When will we have a Tossing Day.

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

Lola

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

Trash City

TDN – Santa Anita Opens with Boxing Day Bonanza

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Albert Einstein

It’s Christmas Now – Santa Claus – What are the origins and traditions of the Feast of St. Stephen (Boxing Day)?

Koinonia House – John Loeffler – The Feast of Stephen

Feast of Stephen

Surfin USA

When I’m dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

J.P. Donleavy

Sloop John B

Muhammad Ali – he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon… Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

Don King

Esquire – Muhammad Ali: What I’ve Learned

Esquire – What I’ve Learned – Joe Frazier

Esquire – What I’ve Learned – George Foreman

The Greatest Love of All

I like to box. How I like to box.
So every day I box a Gox.
In yellow socks I box my Gox.
I box in yellow Gox box socks.

Dr. Seuss

The Boxer

RogerEbert – Brian Tallerico – A Complete Unknown

It Ain’t Me Babe

Los Angeles Times – Joshus Rothkopf – Review: In ‘A Complete Unknown,’ a cryptic Bob Dylan comes into view, gifted and callous

California is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.     

Walter Winchell

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips

Front Office Sports – Jeff Benson – Another Major Crypto Site Wants In On Sports Prediction Markets

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

Juvenal

The Ringer – Ben Lindbergh – The Big Four Sports Leagues’ Players Have Gotten Too Good

Esquire Sager – B.B. King: What I’ve Learned

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? 

David Attenborough

Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Racing Needs a New Version of the Good Old Days

Redemption Song

Bloodhorse – Karen M. Johnson – BEST Practices for New York’s Backstretch Community

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Dr. Seuss

Sloop John B

SportsNet- Sam Cosentino – Three players to watch on every team at 2025 World Juniors

This is Why

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Bon Appetit – Zoe Denenberg – 37 Fancy-ish Dinner Party Ideas

The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.

Johan Cruyff

Paulick Report – Lynnne Snierson – ‘Toughest Filly I’ve Ever Ridden’: Q&A With Thorpedo Anna’s Exercise Rider Danny Ramsey

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

George Carlin

All Day and All of the Night

Front Office Sports – Meredith Turits – NHL, TNT Pinning High Hopes on First New Year’s Eve Winter Classic

Phil has a question:

When is the NHL going to get a real Commissioner.

How fucking stupid was Bettmen and the NHL to water down the Winter Classic with more than one outdoor game a season.

How about the previous season’s Stanley Cup Champion hosting the Winter Classic and having only 1 outdoor game a season.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

T.S. Eliot

The Sky Is Crying

Sports Business Journal – Tom Friend – NFL vs. NBA: Battle for growth and viewers means head-to-head clashes more often than just Christmas Day

Phil has a question:

When is the NHL going to get a real Commissioner.

Gimme Shelter

There’s always something to look at if you open your eyes!

Dr. Who

2021 Runhappy  Malibu Stakes

LA Woman

Phil has a question:

Why does your car speed up when you turn up the volume on a good cruising toon.

iFashion Guy – Smith – How To Patch Jeans | 11 Easiest Way To Fix Your Ripped Jeans

Centrefield

Collard Kraut

Lola

If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.     

Mario Andretti

In Between Days

 Q. What do you call an Australian looking after his grill?

A. A barbie sitter.

Over Now

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Phil M Stockmen

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