Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
Chuck Palahniuk
ESPN – Sham Charania – Sources: Knicks’ request to speak with Udoka, Finch denied
Phil has a question:
Did the Knicks have a plan before firing their coach.
Paulick Report – Personal Ensign Could Be Next For Breeders’ Cup-Bound Dorth Vader
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – NYRA Thinks Long-Term With its Belmont Day Decisions
Horse Racing Nation – Ron Flatter – Anger over Sovereignty’s snub of Triple Crown boils over
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Belmont Champ Sovereignty Will Target Travers Next
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Despite Rain, O’Rourke Sees Sunshine in Spa Numbers
Bloodhorse – Sean Collins – East Avenue Back to Old Self in Matt Winn Victory
TDN – ‘Rising Star’ East Avenue Goes The Distance In The Matt Winn At Churchill
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – NYRA Postpones Jaipur, Manhattan Stakes to June 8
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Ian Fleming
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Tom Pedulla – Takeaways From 2025 Belmont Stakes Festival
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Despite Race-Day Changes, Belmont Posts Solid Numbers
The Athletic – Amos Morales III – Sovereignty surges down the stretch to win the Belmont Stakes
The Score – Liam Fox – Sovereignty tops Journalism again to win Belmont Stakes
Sports Illustrated – Mike McDaniel – Sovereignty Wins 2025 Belmont Stakes
TDN – Derby Winner Sovereignty Stamps His Authority On the Belmont
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
Confucius
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Sovereignty Wins Belmont Stakes in KY Derby Repeat
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Horse Race Insider – John Pricci – SOVEREIGNTY REIGNS SUPREME IN BELMONT 157
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Belmont Notebook: Godolphin Team Enjoys the Moment
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Journalism Camp Proud; Eyes Fall Rematch at Del Mar
TDN – Tim Wilkin – Journalism’s Camp Not Throwing In the Towel
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Earl Nightingale
The Haiku Handicapper, Joe Nevills, was close:
Prediction
Triple Crown near-miss
Journalism wins rematch
And then six, three, two
Prediction
Triple Crown near-miss
Journalism Sovereignty wins rematch
Same Tri as Derby
Garden and Gun – Tom Wilmes – Ten Standout Southern Bourbon Festivals
Firing the coach also redirects the blame from the GM, who makes the statement that the roster isn’t the problem.
ESPN – Stars fire coach Pete DeBoer after losing in the West finals
Phil has a question:
Is it easier to pull one goalie than 12 underperforming forwards and 6 underperforming defencemen.
Is it easier to fire one coach than 20 underperforming players.
Does Dallas think it’s New York.
SportsNet – Justin Bourne – Pete DeBoer, and how NHL coaches have been sapped of all authority
ESPN – Shams Charadia – Sources: Knicks interested in speaking with Jason Kidd
Phil has a question:
Did Thibodeau play his starters too much cuz that’s his technique or cuz he had no talent on the bench.
Firing Thibodeau was controversial and costly enough that the Knicks better get this coaching hire right. Anything less than the franchise’s first title since 1973 will be considered a failure.
Phil has a question:
Why hasn’t fat fucking Don the Fucking Con attacked any University with Div I Football or basketball teams.
TDN – ‘Rising Star’ Patch Adams Scoots Clear In Woody Stephens
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It’s a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
Robin Williams
Bloodhorse – Teresa Genaro – Cutting Back, Patch Adams Gets Grade 1 Win at Saratoga
The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
Paulick Report – Myra Lewyn – ‘Special Horse’: Favorite Patch Adams Powers Clear In Woody Stephens
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – Running Nitrogen on Dirt in Wonder Again Pays Off
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
Henny Youngman
TDN – Maximus Mischief’s Raging Torrent Causes Surprise in Hill ‘n’ Dale Met Mile
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Raging Torrent Takes Them All the Way in Met Mile
Bloodhorse – Karen M. Johnson – A. P. Kid Earns First Stakes Win in Pennine Ridge
TDN – Alan Carasso – Book’em Danno Rebounds Over Mullikin In True North
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
John Steinbeck
SkySports – David Beckham to receive knighthood in King’s Birthday Honours List named next week
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
One of Phil’s favourite name horses: Dorth Vader, the John Ropes Florida homebred had the Force with her in the Saratoga slop in the GI Ogden Phipps Stake Presented by Ford for $500,000 going 1 1/8 miles on the sloppy dirt on Friday.
Dorth Vader is by Girvin (Tale of Ekati) out of the Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy who was campaigned in Alberta by Darrell Landry and then Amber Buniak and Ryan McLean. Hardcore Candy won 8 races from 40 starts with 8 seconds and 4 thirds, earning $101,308. She was Stakes placed in the Freedom of the City Stakes (Black Type) at Northlands Park.
Trained by George Weaver for owner/breeder John Ropes, Dorth Vader landed her first win since taking the 2023 Davona Dale Stakes (G2) as a 3-year-old. The now 5-year-old mare made it worth the wait, earning an automatic berth to the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) Nov. 1 at Del Mar with her victory in the Ogden Phipps, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In event.
Bloodhorse – Karen M. Johnson – Dorth Vader Springs the Upset in Ogden Phipps
Dorth Vader is out of the winning Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy, who Ropes purchased under the name Rose Grove Farm for $23,000 at the 2014 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. Fall Mixed Sale.
Q: How does Darth Vader manage to eat through that mask?
A: He’s force fed.
TDN – Frankel’s Asbury Park ‘Bosses’ Spa Maiden, Becomes A ‘Rising Star’
TDN – J.N.Campbell – ‘TDN Rising Star’ Ways And Means Chairs Bed O’ Roses Romp At The Spa
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – La Cara Upsets Acorn; KY Oaks Winner Good Cheer Fifth
Paulick Report – Chelsea Hackbarth – La Cara All The Way In Acorn; Oaks Heroine Good Cheer Fifth
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Wet Turf Can’t Stop She Feels Pretty in New York Stakes
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Buddha
Phil M. Stockmen
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