http://www.raceday360.com/wire/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss R30 jnchapel@gmail.com http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/man-o%E2%80%99-war-is-good-but-he%E2%80%99s-no-luke-blackburn-1920.html Colin's Ghost - Last week, the fine folks at the Keeneland Library sent a link via Twitter about opening day at Saratoga in 1920 from the Daily Racing Form archive. The article had much to say about Man o’ War, who was half-way through his 3-year-old campaign that summer. One of the great… ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:32:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/man-o%E2%80%99-war-is-good-but-he%E2%80%99s-no-luke-blackburn-1920.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/joe-palmer-on-saratoga-race-course.html Colin's Ghost - Red Smith, while reminiscing on Joe Palmer day at Belmont Park in 1957, recalled this quote from Palmer: “A man who spends his life poking around racetracks gets, in addition to a view... ]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:01:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/joe-palmer-on-saratoga-race-course.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/grecian-queen-and-the-hundred-grander-at-delaware-1953.html Colin's Ghost - This Saturday, Delaware Park will host the marquee race on its racing calendar: the $750,000 Delaware Handicap for fillies and mares. The “Del Cap”, known as the New Castle Handicap... ]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:19:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/grecian-queen-and-the-hundred-grander-at-delaware-1953.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/gallorette-and-the-delaware-oaks-1945.html Colin's Ghost - On Saturday, Delaware Park will host the Delaware Oaks for three-year-old fillies. The race was run for the first time in 1938 and this weekend will be the 59th running. Many great fillies count the Delaware Oaks among their victories, but none were greater than Gallorette, who won the race… ]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:05:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/gallorette-and-the-delaware-oaks-1945.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/round-tables-near-miss-1958.html Colin's Ghost - On Saturday at Monmouth Park, Presious Passion is expected to try for his third straight win in the United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park. While his comback race from Dubai a few weeks ago have some questioning whether the seven-year-old has anything left, it would be a mistake to count… ]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:45:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/round-tables-near-miss-1958.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/more-tweets-from-delaware-park-1937.html Colin's Ghost - This is one of those weeks where the best laid plans have given way to the pressures of time. So, like any good movie studio, I am going to reprise a past success with a sequel. Last week, I posted about opening day at Delaware Park in 1937 using a… ]]> Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:42:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/more-tweets-from-delaware-park-1937.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/twitter-ing-from-opening-day-at-delaware-park-1937.html Colin's Ghost - As some of you might know, I live a short drive from Delaware Park. It is my home track and one of my favorite places in the world to spend a lazy, summer afternoon. ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:44:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/twitter-ing-from-opening-day-at-delaware-park-1937.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/belmont-stakes-day-2010.html Colin's Ghost - The 2010 Triple Crown season came to a close on Saturday. While this year’s crop of three-year-olds didn’t exactly set the world on fire, racing fans have plenty to be excited about this... ]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:30:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/belmont-stakes-day-2010.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/colin-one-of-the-great-ones.html Colin's Ghost - In the short history of this site, I have established a few ‘traditions’. One of them is a post about the namesake of this site during Belmont week. The inspiration for the name “Colin’s Ghost” came while reading newspaper stories of the 1908 Belmont Stakes.  On the Thursday before the… ]]> Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:00:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/06/colin-one-of-the-great-ones.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/racing-maxims-and-methods-of-pittsburg-phil-1908.html Colin's Ghost - It’s about that time of year when I do a post about Pittsburg Phil. One of my favorite eras of racing history is the era of the public horseplayer -- men whose exploits in the betting ring... ]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 18:38:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/racing-maxims-and-methods-of-pittsburg-phil-1908.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/the-original-monmouth-park-1870-and-1890.html Colin's Ghost - On Saturday, Monnmouth Park will open for business but it won’t be business as usual for the old track in Oceanport. This year’s Monmouth summer meeting is being touted on their website... ]]> Wed, 19 May 2010 05:25:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/the-original-monmouth-park-1870-and-1890.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/the-preakness-and-revisionist-history.html Colin's Ghost - Race writer Teresa Genero wrote a piece for Hello Race Fans called “Preakness: The Lost New York Years” that covers (much more eloquently then me) some of the ground I am covering this week. ]]> Thu, 13 May 2010 04:56:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/the-preakness-and-revisionist-history.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/arcaro-and-hartack-jockey-kings-of-the-derby.html Colin's Ghost - It was hard not to scream “Go Calvin!” as Super Saver jumped to the lead in the stretch of the 2010 Derby. Calvin Borel seems to have figured out a few things about winning the big race on the first Saturday in May. He has won three out of the… ]]> Tue, 04 May 2010 20:18:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/05/arcaro-and-hartack-jockey-kings-of-the-derby.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/the-first-derby-under-the-twin-spires-1895.html Colin's Ghost - So here we are less than 48 hours away from another Kentucky Derby and, as usual, we here at Colin’s Ghost are looking backward. We did a post about Twenty Grand’s Derby a few weeks ago but wanted to do one more before the big race. The question that inspired… ]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:12:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/the-first-derby-under-the-twin-spires-1895.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/new-york-racing-1905.html Colin's Ghost - Amidst all of the Derby hoopla, Belmont Park will open for its spring meet on Friday.  As I have said in this space before, Belmont is one of my favorite tracks.  Like all racing fans, annual markers on my calendar are linked to big races and opening days.  This year,… ]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:39:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/new-york-racing-1905.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/twenty-grand-and-the-kentucky-derby-1931.html Colin's Ghost - Racing historian John Hervey called 1931 -- the year Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby -- the annus mirabilis (latin for ‘remarkable year’). ]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:20:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/twenty-grand-and-the-kentucky-derby-1931.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/keeneland2010.html Colin's Ghost - My epic trip to Arkansas and Lexington turned into a three day trip to Keeneland after an unfortunate encounter with a Papa John’s pizza. ]]> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:25:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/keeneland2010.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/learn-to-handicap-races-1895.html Colin's Ghost - About a week ago, the Hello Race Fans site was launched. I have mentioned HRF here before and it has come together beautifully under the steady hand of the site’s captain Dana Byerly. ]]> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:00:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/04/learn-to-handicap-races-1895.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/03/remembering-hirsch-jacobs.html Colin's Ghost - Last week, legendary racing man Chick Lang died at the age of 80. A number of wonderful tributes have been posted online and it has been a great lesson for me to learn all he did for racing... ]]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:33:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/03/remembering-hirsch-jacobs.html http://colinsghost.org/2010/03/seabiscuit-vs-war-admiral-from-the-drf-archive-1938.html Colin's Ghost - Our friend Becky Ryder, from the Daily Racing Form Online Archive, wrote in a comment on last week’s article about the recent digitization of the Racing Form’s coverage of the Seabiscuit... ]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:45:00 -0700 http://colinsghost.org/2010/03/seabiscuit-vs-war-admiral-from-the-drf-archive-1938.html