Can I Get A $5 Obama/Clinton Exacta Box?

Inspiration for posts from news in the racing world has alluded me this week. Yet with the hotly contested battle for the Democratic Presidential nomination resembling that epic battle between Rags To Riches and Curlin in last year’s Belmont Stakes, I started to wonder what kind of action a horseplayer could find on a [...]

How long will the wait be for the new Philadelphia Park?

Opinions differ as to whether Greenwood Racing tried to pull the bait and switch on the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Assn.and the racing public when they converted Philly Park into a racino and then hemmed and hawed about spending the money to improve the facilities for racing fans. As noted on this blog before the current [...]

Waiting for a Renaissance

As racing cards go, yesterday’s Pennsylvania Derby card was a feast and a rare event for local race fans with horses like Zanjero, Slew’s Tizzy and Gaff competing and jockey’s like Castellano, Albarado and Calvin Borel adding to the experience. Yet big purses and big names can’t fix what is wrong with Philadelphia Park. [...]

Carol Cedeno Throws Like a Girl

Apprentice Carol Cedeno is making a name of herself at Philadelphia Park. She won the 8th race on Speechifying trained by Phil Aristone. Aristone trained for a partnership I was in at Philly Park a few years ago; Phil won 15 races for us.
Carol Cedeno on Speechifying
Phil Aristone
After each race the winning jockey [...]

A Derby: Philly Style

The highlight of my day at Philadelphia Park was stumbling on Calvin Borel signing autographs, of course Calvin obliged by signing my program and listening to me complain that after his win in the Breeders Cup Juvenile, I can’t get a decent price on Street Sense anymore; I blame him for that!
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Build It and They Will Come . . .

So they re-built it, so to speak and the time has come for the first running of a Pennsylvania Derby at the new Philly Park racino. I’ll be in attendance this afternoon in Bensalem with my camera and camcorder in tow. The weather for the Derby should be ideal with temperatures in the mid-eighties.
As [...]

Racing Needs a Universal Remote

Recently Philadelphia Park’s Phonebet TV channel converted to a digital signal. In my case this meant that if I wanted to see my beloved races on Saturday and Sunday afternoon I would have to schlep over to the local Comcast office and get myself a digital box (the first box is free, thanks Comcast). So [...]

Welcome to Simulcastland

The owners of Philadelphia Park, Greenwood Racing, Inc. recently announced their wishes to leave the remodeled racino as is and not build a new slots facility next door or complete the renovations that would turn the racino back into a premiere racing facility.
The recently remodeled racino was designed with the intent to make horseplayers [...]

Sunday Blues at Philly Park

Your Average Coupon-Clipping Horse Player

I made a pilgrimage down to the new Philadelphia Racetrack and Casino about a week ago, enticed by two coupons in the local newspaper worth $25 each in slot play bucks. So along with my Dad,who needed an evening out, we got in the car and made the thirty minute drive down to the facility [...]