Water, water everywhere
The looks on the faces of the two men standing on the sidewalk here on Circular Street said it all, after this writer attempted to make light about water percolating out of the ground the morning after the Super Bowl.
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Good Times
Takaya Shimakawa bought Si Que Es Buena last year in Peru as a prospect to join his select broodmare band in Japan.
The Saturday Special – Feb. 2
The Polar Vortex came and went, at least in some parts of the country, and Super Bowl weekend arrived with a blast of cold weather and a full slate of racing action from coast to coast.
The Streak
Rolling out of bed this morning and the first thing to do – even before pouring that first cup of coffee – was ask Alexa the current temperature.
Red carpet at Lane’s End
Milestones were baked in the cake for the Farish family’s Lane’s End long before a Sallee van traversed a windy road through the farm in Versailles, Ky., early Monday morning to deliver Accelerate and City Of Light as headline additions to the stallion roster.
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Bill Mott grinned the way only Bill Mott can grin walking toward one of the flat screen TVs near the paddock Saturday at Gulfstream Park. You know the look, if you’ve ever interviewed him, the sort of, “I’d answer your question if it were a better question,” or better yet, “I’ll let you know what I want you to know and probably nothing more.”
Lights Out
Michael McCarthy stood under the overhang at the far end of the grandstand in the horsemen’s viewing area, his eyes fixed on the infield monitor for much of the time it took the Pegasus World Cup field to splash their way 8 of the 9 furlongs of the $9 million headliner in the dim daylight Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
Pegasus World Cup Special
The stage is set for the $9 million Pegasus World Cup and $7 million Pegasus World Cup Turf, the two main events that headline a loaded 12-race card Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Our team is ready, too, with a race-by-race edition of The Saturday Special “Pegasus style.”
Pegasus Preview Bucket: Corrales takes long, winding road
At the height of his career as a jockey, which included more than 1,000 wins during stops and starts between 1981 and 1998, Jose Corrales never earned more purses in a single season than the $972,180 his mounts banked in 1988.
Pegasus Preview Bucket: Fipke mines for success
Gulfstream Park’s publicity staff churns out solid work, especially during the Championship Meet and leading up to some of the South Florida track’s signature events like Saturday’s $9 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational. We’re again pleased to present some of it here at This Is Horse Racing in what we call the Pegasus Preview Bucket, in a nod to the Preakness Preview Bucket we post every spring. Here’s a piece from Monday on Chuck Fipke and Seeking The Soul.
