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June 28, 2008
The Two Dollar Existentialist
I am a polytheist, if you need a winner, you make a two dollar offering to the god of chance and he/she will surely grant your wish. I have had some prayers answered now and then. I had also hoped there were racing gods with an ethos but after this season I suspect that the [...]
June 8, 2008
The Final Word
Even though I had hopes that this year’s Belmont might go down as one of the greats, it turned out to be one of those races that is likely to recede from memory to the dust bin of history just like Commendable and Summing’s victories did.
I think that if a horse like Big Brown [...]
June 8, 2008
Images of the 2008 Belmont Stakes
A gaggle of TBA bloggers showed up for this Belmont Stakes, from left to right Kevin (brown cap) of Colin’s Ghost, Terry (white cap) of Monmouth Park blog, Kevin (yellow cap) The Aspiring Horse Player, Lisa (front) of Superfecta blog, Dana (back) of Green but Game, Teresa of Brooklyn Backstretch, Alan of Left at the [...]
June 5, 2008
A Man For All Reasons
The business card of W.W.Greene, a renaissance man if there ever was one.
June 3, 2008
From Saigon to Baghdad to Belmont Park
I will be at Belmont Park this Saturday for one of my infrequent visits brought on by the lure of a Triple Crown.
There have been a few near misses since my last visit in 1997 but this year is different. This year I think I may very well see one of the defining races [...]
June 1, 2008
Take Two Zitos and Don’t Call Me In the Morning
After a ten day vacation and eating out every night, it’s not my imagination that my pants are tighter. I have returned to see flights of fancy are running rampant.
The Big News was that Big Brown chipped a nail. Michael Iavarone imagined he once was employed at Goldman Sachs, executed trades without his client’s permission [...]
May 19, 2008
Life in the Land of Short Attention Spans
One thing we need to get out of in our heads is that there are no great horses anymore.
What we have are horses that have great success for a very limited amount of time. If Big Brown sweeps the Triple Crown as many of us expect him to, it will not be a diminished achievement [...]
May 18, 2008
Love the Horse, Hate the In-Laws
Never has a triple crown been so much like a marriage, you know love the horse, hate the in-laws but that’s life.
Two questions that remain for me are, will Big Brown get a SI cover when he wins the triple crown and how Three Chimneys got him instead of Sheik Big Nose?
$50 million is looking [...]
