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Ryan Finley gets MLS call

Terry and Ryan Finley stepped out for some father-son time, hitting up the Wawa convenience store near the family’s homestead for some necessities. Maybe a sandwich or two, and some other items to fill in the gaps after a long journey back to Lumberton, N.J. from America’s heartland. 

Steeplechase Notebook

We’re running down news from all over this morning, after a few days out of the office, and there’s plenty.

Life goes on . . .

I’m crying in a coffee shop in Middleburg. Three tennis ladies banter about cupcake icing, a Jack Russell begs for a bagel across the room, two old men reminisce in the corner, another latte froths from a gun-metal machine. 

Everything changes

A badly spray-painted lamp made from a plastic Gordon’s Gin bottle hung from the ceiling. A $25 used desk held the printer, fax and other machines. A used Macintosh LC computer with a black-and-white monitor did the heavy lifting. 

Mid-Atlantic Tbred, Steeplechase Times merge

The Thoroughbred publications Steeplechase Times and Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred will solidify an ongoing business relationship with a partnership that merges the two print publications under the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred banner.

What’s in the bin 2? Saratoga 1957

The little book, now more than 55 years old, belonged to Humphrey Finney, at least judging from the “Finney” scribbled on the cover in bluish ink. It’s a sales catalogue, one of the two or three dozen in a bin dug out at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Fair Hill office this winter. 

In and around Saratoga: Good to (soon) be home

The questions and follow-up statements used to pop up all the time.

“What was it like growing up in Saratoga? What’s it like up there in the off-season? What do people do up there the rest of the year?”

What’s in the bin? History

The kind folks at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic called me about a bin full of sales catalogues they were taking to a storage unit. Would I care to have a look? Apparently, I guess I’m the resident community historian or packrat or goofball who really might have an interest in some 50-year-old paperback books. I jumped at the chance.

Steeplechase Eclipse finalists named

As expected, Demonstrative and Pierrot Lunaire headline the trio of finalists for the Eclipse Award as steeplechase champion of 2012. Each won two Grade 1 stakes on the year, the only horses to do so, and finished 1-2 in the earnings list.

Champs 2012: Geraghty rides to first crown

From the December edition of Steeplechase Times.

Bea and Tucker Geraghty were on a late-summer holiday in 2009. Their son Ross, fed up with the racing game at home in Ireland and his place in it, made a decision about America. He could ride there, couldn’t he? Especially with a contact with leading trainer Tom Voss.