Not ready for winter
The yard and gardens outside the home office window here at ST Publishing (North division) are filled with leaves.
Tom Law
Monday Morning Trainer: Good Read
Posts will be drawn Monday morning (West Coast time) for the 30th Breeders’ Cup and this past weekend’s races provided at least a little insight into the strength of two divisions on the World Championships card.
Hyper seeks own joy at Woodbine
Just how supportive is Ken Ramsey of the offspring of the stallion that’s launched him into uncharted territory heading into North America’s biggest racing event with the Breeders’ Cup just a week away? Consider the case of Hyper.
Fayette closes stellar Keeneland meet
The Saratoga meet was winding down and Charlie LoPresti was allowing himself to think ahead a little bit.
Stars line up for Breeders’ Cup
The moans and groans about how the Breeders’ Cup isn’t this and isn’t that come like clockwork every year and at the same time North America’s most lucrative racing event attracts attention, eyeballs on TV sets, betting dollars and plenty of interest from horsemen from around the world.
Monday Morning Trainer: Busy, busy, busy
Workout tabs around the country are overflowing as pre-entry day for the Breeders’ Cup arrived Monday after a monstrously busy weekend that saw boatloads of stakes action on the flat and over jumps in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, Ken and Sarah Ramsey break another record in Kentucky and the sudden and tragic death of the recently retired multiple Grade 1 winner and Dullahan.
Handicapping the Maryland Million
Saturday’s 28th Jim McKay Maryland Million features lucrative purses, several marquee names that compete regularly and successfully in the Mid-Atlantic region, large fields and of course intriguing betting races to test horseplayers.
Back in the Bluegrass
Plenty’s changed in the six months that have passed since we packed up the rented moving van, pulled out of the driveway on the south side of town, pointed north and put Lexington in our rear-view mirrors.
Monday Morning Trainer: Ramsey’s Game
The last time Kitten’s Dumplings raced on the East Coast she was more than a handful in the paddock and preliminaries for the Grade 2 Lake George Stakes in late July.
Alterite looks to build resume in QE II
Chad Brown made his usual walk from the clocker’s stand to his barn at the edge of the Oklahoma Training Track grounds this week when the subject weaved its way to a filly that’s never been in Saratoga Springs and runs this weekend in Kentucky.
