Tom Law

Editor’s Note: We didn’t make it to Barbados (again) this past weekend for the annual extravaganza that is the Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup but we enlisted our friends at the Horse Racing Radio Network to provide some on-site post-race commentary about the sights and sounds of the event. HRRN’s Jude Feld, a veteran of the Gold Cup and unabashed fan of Barbados, sets the scene.

Ernest Hemingway said, “Write drunk. Edit sober.”

No matter how dubious the request, a Clancy brother will have to edit this.

Cary Frommer described last Wednesday as the “most wonderful day I’ve had in my pinhooking career” and it could easily be said that it was one of the best pinhooking days for anyone, anywhere.

Super Saturday in Dubai, Gold Cup in Bardados, Gotham in New York, three stakes in Florida and what could be a public workout for champion Songbird in California highlight a huge day of action covered in this week’s Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud, home of Alternation, Broken Vow and Cowboy Cal.

Next week’s Fasig-Tipton Florida sale gets the 2016 2-year-olds in training sales season started and considering last year’s rousing success it seems a fitting place to begin.

One final weekend to go in the shortest month of the year – even if it is a Leap Year – and one more edition of Saturday Special presented by Pin Oak Stud, home to Alternation, Broken Vow and Cowboy Cal. We’ve got a good one this week, thanks to a stellar card at Gulfstream Park and plenty of action elsewhere.

“I can get paid to ride horses?”

It was the winter of 1986. I had just finished the first semester of my freshman year at Averett University, a small private college, located in the small town of Danville in southern Virginia. A friend of mine, Becky Atwell, had told me there was an opportunity to make extra money while I was home from school by galloping racehorses at the racetrack.