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Joe Clancy 
It’s the weekend, and the list of things to do is not getting any shorter. Better make some progress on this other list. My top 10 moments in the 2013 Thoroughbred racing season. Again, these are my moments – not necessarily racing’s. Still an entertaining way to look back on the year.
The more I think about this, I’m really not sure these are in any order – nor could they be. They are 10 moments in a year of following Thoroughbred racing in a variety of capacities and locations. They’re big and small, personal and public, famous and unknown. They’re also great markers of time, impact, involvement, life.
Give us your top 10 moments from the 2013 Thoroughbred racing season. Ready . . . go. Wait a minute. Let me make a list. OK, I’ve got it. No that’s 17. Wait, I want to add one more. Delete that. Scratch this. Combine those. Here we go, now I’m ready. Hold it, I need more time.
Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe . . . catch a Tiger by its toe . . . if he hollers let him go . . . and my mother said to pick the very best one and you are not it.
Joy Cooper took the photo accompanying this article and commented “The roads are actually pretty good.”
OK…
Now that was an ending. Saturday’s Colonial Cup steeplechase meet closed the 2013 National Steeplechase Association season and fittingly featured plenty of final-day drama.
Alajmal upset the $100,000 Colonial Cup Saturday, charging past Divine Fortune in the stretch and fighting off Barnstorming and Italian Wedding in the final stages of the Grade 1 steeplechase stakes at Springdale Race Course in Camden, S.C. Saturday.
Like the horses, jockeys, trainers and owners, the TIHR handicappers can see the finish line to the 2013 steeplechase season. One more stop, with seven races to go, and the season is over.
“Never mind the championship, I’ve got a job to do on six horses. I’m trying to ride six winners.”
You never know what you’re going to get via email.
Two weeks ago, waiting for the Elkton High football game to start, it was Groupie Doll being pointed to the Cigar Mile. Tonight, just after finishing a slice of pizza (mushroom, tomato and feta) from Tony’s Café after swim practice, it was Royal Delta. Like everybody else, I learned she was being retired and even saw a photo on Twitter of Bill Mott leading her to the van earlier in the day. The email release, like the one about Groupie Doll it came from The Bell Group, spelled out the two-time (soon to be three-time?) champion’s future.
