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Tom Law 
The first North American Grade 1 was contested of the year on an otherwise light weekend of stakes action and the Southern California fixture was dominated by daughters of champion and Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense.
Today’s to do list: Things to think about after coming in from round 2 of shoveling this morning in Saratoga Springs. You’ve got to think positive on a day like today, when you can’t feel your fingers and the only thought through your head is “Moving back to Saratoga was a good idea because …”
There were 24 black-type stakes events around North America last weekend and the progeny of white-hot Central Kentucky sire Medaglia d’Oro won three of them.
Ralph Evans counted himself lucky to get back to New England earlier this week after a short trip to South Florida over the weekend. Only a man riding the high from a win of a promising 3-year-old winning his seasonal debut can make such a statement, especially considering the trade was sunshine, ocean breezes and temperatures in the 70s for snow, huge wind gusts and temps below freezing.
Snowstorms and blizzards, blizzards and snowstorms. That’s the buzz pretty much everywhere on the eastern side of the country, not counting those hardy souls gutting it out in South Florida.
Today is one of those days that I miss working in the traditional office setting.
ST Publishing, publishers of the daily newspaper The Saratoga Special, will team for the second straight year with the New York Thoroughbred Breeders to produce a commemorative program for the organization’s Annual Awards Banquet later this spring.
The Eclipse Awards were handed out on a glitzy Saturday night at Gulfstream Park and several stallions were represented by their first North American champions.
Dean Reeves loves horse racing. He makes no bones about it and anyone who witnessed the hugely successful campaign of Mucho Macho Man, who carried the white, green and gold silks of his Reeves Thoroughbred Racing operation, knows how serious he is about the game.
Spanning the globe – literally this week – to come up with the best quips and quotes from the world of racing.
