Ob-la-di-bla-da, Todd Still Sucks and Even Edgar Doesn’t Have a Clue

The Philadelphia Enquirer put Big Brown’s picture on the front of the sports section, at the bottom! Mercifully they put the picture of Eight Belles breakdown inside.
That tells you how much respect and interest the press has for racing here in Philadelphia. The headline in the sports section was something about the Philadelphia Flyers [...]

The Sad and Continuing Story of Todd And The Cheap Suits (Part II The Sad Hat Trick)

When we last left our hero, he was on the outside looking in.
The Derby trail had been one pothole after another and it appeared that mercifully the fans would be spared another year of watching him enter horses in the Derby who usually brought up the rear.
Ah but the racing gods are cruel [...]

When Inevitability Fails Can Unwarranted Optimism Be Far Behind?

Being inevitable isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and who knows that better these days than Hillary Clinton. She’s running around here in Pennsylvania talking about what she’ll do “when” she becomes president instead of what she’ll do “if” she becomes president, the aura of invincibility destroyed by a lethal combination of overconfidence and [...]

The Sad and Continuing Story of Todd and the Cheap Suits

Any racing fan knows that Todd Pletcher wouldn’t be caught dead in a cheap suit, on almost any given Saturday Todd can be spotted in the clubhouse or the saddling ring in one of his fashionable and neatly pressed custom made suits. Like his cool demeanor, Todd’s suits are part of his trademark [...]

The Green Monkey isn’t the only monkey on Todd’s back

They say it is lonely at the top and I would guess Todd must feel pretty lonely back at the barn this Monday morning as he looks down the shed row to see his five Derby starters back in their stalls without the roses and the unraced $16 million dollar mistake munching on hay [...]

What If Todd Was A Horse ?

Todd Pletcher’s record in the Kentucky Derby is 14-0-1-1. What if you were asked to handicap a race where strangely the horses have records that closely resemble some real life trainers. Which horse would you bet?
First we have a horse called Blame the Surface, who is known around the barn by the nickname BS, this [...]

Todd’s Tactical Retreat

With the news that Circular Quay will train up to the Derby and that Any Given Saturday will turn tail and run from another confrontation with Street Sense in the Blue Grass, this blogger sees General Pletcher exposing some serious doubts about the biggest stars in his army of three-year olds. It appears Circular [...]

Todd’s Tactical Retreat

With the news that Circular Quay will train up to the Derby and that Any Given Saturday will turn tail and run from another confrontation with Street Sense in the Blue Grass, this blogger sees General Pletcher exposing some serious doubts about the biggest stars in his army of three-year olds. It appears Circular [...]