Hangin' With Haskin

January 2020 - Posts

Cigars, Beer, and Mustard

I have never taken a puff of a cigar, but the smell is intoxicating, bringing me back to my childhood and Ebbetts Fields and my Uncle Sam's cigars, and then later Yankee Stadium and then the old Madison Square Garden on 50th Street. Those were the special places of my youth where the smell of cigar smoke blended so perfectly with the smell of beer and mustard. Soon those three aromas would come together in the grandstand of Aqueduct Racetrack, which was only eight years old when I first inhabited it in 1967.... Read More

Is Vox and Bricks a Good Mix?

In some years we are fortunate to have a horse that possesses all the attributes to win both the Vox Populi and Horse of the Year. There is an excellent chance this will be one of those years.... Read More

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