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Tom Law The only thing left from Christmas is the occasional tune from holiday songs that occasionally populate the subconscious mind. The New Year is coming fast. In-laws are en route from Cincinnati. Tickets are in hand for a Saturday show at Caffe Lena. Furniture arrived, finally, and the list of memorable moments from 2013 is ticking away.
The countdown of the most memorable moments of 2013 continues with one of the only controversial stories of the Saratoga meet.
The wrapping paper and empty bottles are in the recycler, leftovers in the fridge and friends and family starting to trek back to their homes. And the countdown continues, the most memorable moments of 2013 from the world of racing.
The task seemed relatively simple. Certainly not as difficult as, say, tasking youth soccer midfielders new to the full-sided, 11 v. 11 version of the beautiful game. Come up with a list of your 10 most memorable racing moments of 2013.
Shug McGaughey’s been down the road many times that sees his stable lose its share of top-tier runners as the season winds down. The retirements of Orb, Point of Entry, Boisterous, Data Link and Hymn Book left empty stalls literally and figuratively in McGaughey’s stable.
One day left in the temporary six-month rental that turned into the rental for more than eight and the place is littered with stuff.
Three races for 2-year-olds carry six-figure purses this weekend, two in Southern California as Hollywood Park closes its doors for good and the other at Sunland Park in New Mexico.
The question wasn’t so much if he would break the record, rather when he would break the record.
Sorting through books, newspaper clips and other research materials on people, places, horses, races, and other happenings from the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s and ’60s proved most interesting earlier this year and again these last few weeks.
The 2014 Thoroughbred Racing Calendars are flying out of the home office in Fair Hill faster than Cabbage Patch Kids and TRS-80 computers came off the shelves back in the 1980s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pokemon cards in the 1990s and every electronic gadget Steve Jobs and his buddies at other tech companies could produce into the 2000s.
