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"It is now post time": Fred "Cappy" Capossela
There is no sound more exciting to the racetrack customer than the trenchant, nasal exclamation of...
21 Hours, 42 Minutes ago | Visit source ›
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Seattle Slew, the Gotham, star treatment, and the inner track
Nearly daily since last summer, some element of the behavior of Zenyatta, Rachel...
March 5 2010, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Sad news today that at some point this month, 1994 Champion Juvenile Filly Flanders was euthanized due to complications from…
March 1 2010, 3:54pm | Visit source ›
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Let’s not kid ourselves, in some cases we prep as much as the Derby contenders do. Don’t believe me? Then…
February 28 2010, 10:48am | Visit source ›
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Measuring the Major Kentucky Derby Preps, 1952 – 2009
Like many race fans at this time of year, I am beginning to show symptoms of Derby fever. Unfortunately, we are still…
February 25 2010, 4:55pm | Visit source ›
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The Hall of Fame process has begun once again, and by process I mean the gathering of an arbitrary selection of historically…
February 10 2010, 3:38pm | Visit source ›
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Today at Aqueduct six hopeful three-year-olds will take to the track in the closest that New York comes to a…
February 6 2010, 5:45am | Visit source ›
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After the year we had last year, with fillies and mares stepping up in open company, it’s no wonder I…
February 5 2010, 6:38pm | Visit source ›
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On the Second Pass, John Williams resurrects Joe Palmer for a new audience: I don’t want to give the impression…
February 4 2010, 11:30am | Visit source ›
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On the Second Pass, John Williams resurrects Joe Palmer for a new audience: I don’t want to give the impression…
February 3 2010, 11:30am | Visit source ›
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From the Saint Paul Daily Globe, August 10, 1892: CHICAGO, ILL., Aug. 9. — Frances Milfred would like to be…
January 28 2010, 3:11pm | Visit source ›
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Winter Racing at New Jersey’s Guttenberg Race Track, 1885-1893
Has anyone ever heard of the Guttenberg Race Track? I hadn’t. I came across a description of the track in…
January 28 2010, 4:10am | Visit source ›
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Devil Diver, Twilight Tear, and Three Year Old Fillies as Horse of the Year
Shortly after Rachel Alexandra won the Haskell last summer and speculation bubbled about her next start, the...
January 23 2010, 5:51am | Visit source ›
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In the Aqueduct Handicap, Stymie 2, mares 0
Today at Aqueduct is the 91st running of the Evening Attire. Well, OK, not exactly: the race has been run,…
January 16 2010, 7:43am | Visit source ›
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I came to racing too late to make it to Hialeah to see Thoroughbreds; the shuttered track has been presented…
January 13 2010, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Given that I generally still refer to the Patrick Division and the Campbell Conference, one would correctly surmise that I’m…
December 15 2009, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Select Company in the Queens County
Two years ago, in a generally moribund racing month, winter racing in New York got a blast of attention when…
December 12 2009, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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I Think That Fly Just Moved a Little
“Is blogging dead?” was a question posed by my esteemed colleague John of The Race is not to the Swift.…
December 4 2009, 8:42am | Visit source ›
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And today, we take a turn towards the frivolous.The former foster kittens are firmly ensconced in the Backstretch household; they…
December 1 2009, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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