Getting Wise
Charlie LoPresti stared at the legs of Wise Dan. Fans clapped. Connections smiled. Bettors headed to the windows. LoPresti continued to stare, like a like a kid who dropped his ice cream cone on a summer sidewalk.
Sean Clancy
Boston on my Mind
And, once again we are slapped senseless by the senseless. Hard to grasp, impossible to process, mind-numbingly obtuse to the life we live. The life we want to live. The life we try to live.
Here & There – April 15
It was another wild week in Thoroughbred racing. Horse of the Year Wise Dan returned energetically and victoriously, Todd Pletcher bolstered his Derby roster, Ken McPeek created his, Maya Charli upset the Atlanta feature and Moonsox upset the Manor. Here’s your Here & There for Monday, April 15. Pay your taxes because you have to, read this because you want to…
Guarding the Fort
Ian Wilkes stood on the steps looking over the paddock chute at Gulfstream Park to watch the Gulfstream Park Handicap March 9. Wilkes’ Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned was taking on five rivals in the Grade II dirt stakes.
The Decision
Angel Cordero leaned on the wooden wall, watching but not watching the final two horses walk around the back ring at Keeneland Monday. A colt by Offlee Wild and a colt by Bernardini. Cordero looked at the one of them, “nice horse,” but he was miles, ages away from that horse, that moment.
Here & There – April 10
Big week in Thoroughbred racing. Here’s your Here and There, from Keeneland to Aqueduct, Camden to Monkton.
Sandstorm: Four clash in Stoneybrook feature
$1,074,751: Career earnings for the four starters in the Sandhills Cup at Stoneybrook Saturday. Yes, a over million dollars, earned by four horses, in an allowance race – in steeplechasing.
Home for Easter
Ventured home to Pennsylvania for Easter, the first time I’ve been home since I squeezed in a two-day visit before Christmas. Miles, hardly knowing his cousins, his grandparents these days. Life seems to have gotten too fast, too harried for trips home.
