Ride of the Week: Trevor McCarthy
A $5,000 claiming race on a Thursday in late January at Laurel Park isn’t usually the place to find much excitement.
Tom Law
Monday Morning Trainer: Digging out
There’s plenty of Monday-morning quarterbacking going on, even some Super Bowl leftovers – easily the second-ranked form of leftovers after Thanksgiving – left in the fridge to graze on the next few days and still more racing action to dissect and deduce as much of the East digs out from another snowstorm.
Saturday Special: February 1
Super Bowl XLVIII and Super Bowl parties dominate the attention spans of the masses here in the U.S. this weekend. Fortunately the big game – as the NFL prefers anyone to refer to it if doing so to promote something other than the game – is Sunday and there’s plenty of good racing Saturday to curb those appetites.
Dedication Personified
The balancing act that is fundraising while not stepping on anyone’s toes is a daily reality for Nancy Kelly. And the toes she’s trying to avoid stepping on are usually her own.
Snow doesn’t freeze out NY open houses
The crunch under boots and tires the only reminders of the light snow that fell a day earlier, stepping inside after a short walk from the car to the door brought an immediate favorable bouquet to the nose.
Monday Morning Trainer: Strong Statements
Fast and furious action over the weekend before everyone became obsessed with – or at least felt like sharing every little opinion that came to mind via social networking channels – Sunday’s action at the Grammy Awards and lack of action at the Pro Bowl.
Saturday Special: January 25
The Super Bowl is more than a week away, the Pro Bowl is a major snore, college-hoop games are nothing to write home about yet and most of the country is enduring the 37th deep freeze of the season (or does it just seem like that?), so what better time than fire up the computer or television for some Saturday racing.
Where do you stay?
The combination of catching the end of a report NPR‘s Midday Magazine about how the Internet has affected nearly every facet of American business, including the world of journalism, and some research about what it was like in Saratoga in August 1973 leads me to the following statement:
Classics Corner: Star on the rise
Indianapolis the football team didn’t fare too well a little more than a week ago on a damp and rainy day in Boston as the hometown New England Patriots turned mistakes into points in a rout of the Colts. Indianapolis the Thoroughbred did a little better Monday, made no mistakes and won Santa Anita Park’s San Pedro in his second start and stakes debut for connections all too familiar with classic success.
Monday Morning Trainer: Quad Crown
Time to get back to business after a full day of football that started with Chelsea’s walloping of Manchester United – yes, that brand of football – and ended with the AFC and NFC title games.
