Tom Law

The weekly primer returns for a loaded day of action here on the first Saturday of December, and with a new sponsor.

Like most of us, Sid and Stan love to go the track. Morning, afternoon or night, it doesn’t matter really, although mornings are certainly preferred. Unlike us Sid and Stan go on four legs instead of two, because you see, Sid and Stan are Golden Retrievers, not mention title characters in a new children’s book focused on racing and set to benefit one of the game’s many charities.

Talk about a blur. What a week that was. Everything basically started with Election Day – who won, who didn’t win, who said this, who said that – before mercilessly meandering to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Jack Clancy, everybody’s right-hand man during his summers in Saratoga, rolled up on his golf cart to the Morning Line kitchen one morning early in the 2016 meeting with a suggestion.

The main event. Final act. Ok, well, final acts. Nine Breeders’ Cup World Championship races the chance to get some clarity to a year that doesn’t make much sense in so many ways.

The $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic closes the two-day World Championships program at Keeneland Race Course and it packs plenty of implications. Eclipse Award titles are on the line for the 3-year-old male division and older dirt male division, along with the big prize of North America’s Horse of the Year for 2020.