After a successful few months in Miami, I finally decided it was time to hang up my wheelie bag and settle down in one central spot for the majority of the year. But did I pick the right place?
Jun 112012
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Jul 282011
Six months ago, Barry Irwin asked to be my friend on Facebook. I sat looking at the invite for all of two seconds before clicking Confirm. Since then, we’ve posted on each other’s racing notes, seen pictures of each other’s families, and sent a few emails back and forth about this and that. When he [...]
Mar 032011
We live in a 24 hour news cycle and that means every little morsel of RSS Feed is suddenly open for discussion. It’s true as true in racing as it is in news. That explains all the hubbub surrounding the routes of Uncle Mo and Dialed In on their dates with Derby: but we have weeks to the race and tons of horses to talk about. So why focus on two that are all-but in the gate already? Consider the source.
Jan 312011
We don’t ban baseball because a pitcher tears a rotator cuff. We don’t ban football because a quarterback breaks a collarbone. Racing is highs of winning, lows of losing, and everything in between. It is a sport with two distinct types of athletes: the horse and the jockey. In sports: teams win, teams lose, and injuries happen. Those are inevitable truths all participants accept.
