If Only Curlin Had a Government Charter

On occasion, I like to dabble in the stock market, for me playing the market isn’t that much different than playing the ponies. It’s pretty simple, risk and reward, you try to interpret all this historical data until your brain hurts and then you put your money down. And while my Twin Spires [...]

Sacrebleu! Curlin At 10-1?

When I was in Paris for the Arc in 1998, a glass of orange juice on the Champs Elysees was $8, now I would guess it’s $20. Sure the dollar is a piece of crap these days but look at the value you can get on Curlin with the European bookies for the Arc, [...]

Not Having Testicles Is Not Always a Bad Thing

Try as you may this week you cannot escape the male testicle, whether it’s Jesse Jackson talking about cutting Obama’s or Ray Paulick’s assertion that Frank Angst and all of the males on the staff at the Thoroughbred Times have testicles no larger than marbles; Frick and Frack were everywhere this week.
Granted Jackson’s comment was [...]

Curlin Not A Mortal Lock in the World Cup

The Racing Post is reporting:
MULTI-MILLION dollar colt Jalil has received a vote of confidence for the Dubai World Cup – from Hamdan Al Maktoum.
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan reckoned the four-year-old, who has scored a hat-trick on the sand this winter, will be the one to give odds-on favourite Curlin the most [...]

Table for 400 Please!

When they pass out the Eclipse awards early next year they may need a few extra chairs at the table occupied by Curlin’s connections. No doubt, Curlin’s value escalated greatly on Saturday as did the likelihood that the 20 percent share owned by jailed attorneys Gallion and Cunningham and claimed by 400 allegedly defrauded plaintiffs [...]

Blinded by the Light Off Andy Beyer’s Head

ESPN’s coverage was much better than NBC’s. The minute NBC came on they pissed me off by not spending two minutes covering Flashy Bull’s win in the Schaefer Handicap. Terry Finley of West Point Thoroughbreds always has a horse running on big days with national TV coverage but rarely does he win, so Flashy Bull’s [...]

Blinded by the Light Off Andy Beyer’s Head

ESPN’s coverage was much better than NBC’s. The minute NBC came on they pissed me off by not spending two minutes covering Flashy Bull’s win in the Schaefer Handicap. Terry Finley of West Point Thoroughbreds always has a horse running on big days with national TV coverage but rarely does he win, so Flashy Bull’s [...]

Two Bad

Curlin is the biggest question mark in this Derby. Just how good is he? Is he the next Barbaro or Smarty Jones; there’s even a chance he may be the next Seattle Slew but there’s just as good a chance that he will wind up the next Trippi or Sensitive Prince. Two minutes after the [...]

Curlin’s Inferno

At the moment, it appears Curlin will be the betting favorite for the Derby. I expect that he will join a long and distinguished list of undefeated horses that incinerated the betting public’s cash on Derby Day. The Derby is about heroes and the memories of Smarty Jones and Barbaro are still fresh and I [...]

Curlin’s Inferno

At the moment, it appears Curlin will be the betting favorite for the Derby. I expect that he will join a long and distinguished list of undefeated horses that incinerated the betting public’s cash on Derby Day. The Derby is about heroes and the memories of Smarty Jones and Barbaro are still fresh and I [...]