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Tom Law 
The last Saturday of March – the day before Easter this year – offers jam-packed day of action that starts early with the rich Dubai World Cup card and goes late with the Louisiana Derby card at Fair Grounds. Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud, home of Alternation, Broken Vow and Cowboy Cal, sets things up for a big morning, afternoon and evening of action.
The days are getting longer, March Madness is winding down, Cheltenham is a distant speck in the rearview mirror and the final Kentucky Derby preps are right around the corner.
Rob Massey can see the world’s tallest skyscraper from his hotel room in downtown Dubai and in a week’s time he and the other members of Team McLaughlin hope to scale racing’s tallest peak and take down the globe’s richest race.
The march rolls on this week, no pun intended. And the march we’re talking about has nothing to do with a certain basketball tournament that seems to get more attention for the bracket than the games themselves these days. No, we’re talking about the march to the Kentucky Derby
Editor’s note: Annise Montplaisir, who plans to spend another summer on the editorial team at The Saratoga Special, is in the midst of the spring semester studying abroad in Chile. She recently went to the races at the Valparaiso Sporting Club, ran into someone who knew Sean and Joe Clancy and wrote about the experience after a little encouragement.
Tom Amello wants nothing more than to share his passion and knowledge of Thoroughbred racing and handicapping with a captive audience. He might have the perfectly engaged crowd on any given summer morning now that he and his wife Renee and daughter Kate are the soon-to-be owners of the Brunswick Bed & Breakfast just across from Saratoga Race Course.
Jeffrey Cannizzo, who participated in his first meeting as an official member of the New York Racing Association board of directors Thursday in Manhattan, is all in on Thoroughbred racing.
Now this is a Saturday. Literally coast to coast there are important and interesting races on tap, with loaded cards at Tampa Bay Downs and Santa Anita Park leading the way for this week’s Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud, home of Alternation, Broken Vow and Cowboy Cal.
Approximately 7,000 items will be offered during the Keeneland Library’s second duplicate book sale Thursday and Friday at the Keeneland Entertainment Center in Lexington.
Spring has sprung, even though the so-called experts say it’s too early to call it and even though Christmas lights can be found without looking too hard in spots. So it might be a bit early, and it doesn’t quite feel the same as the last few winters that packed a serious wallop, the warm weather is still very welcome.
