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Monday was the last day of the first week of racing. Despite rare sunny weather with low humidity, the track was a ghost town.  NYRA reported attendance of only 10,695.  In the absence of attention, two jockeys -- Mike Luzzi and Channing Hill –- excelled.Luzzi booted home two of the first four winners on the 10-race card. His first ...

Macho Again, a horse that finished second to Big Brown in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), won the 45th Jim Dandy Stakes (gr. II) beating the 3-2 favorite Pyro.  But his achievement (if you can call it that) wasn’t very commendable.Macho Again’s time for the 1 1/8 miles, run on a track labeled good, was only 1:51.  In comparison, a New ...

Marylou Whitney, escorted by her husband John Hendrickson, entered the main dining room of the Wishing Well restaurant on Route 9N at 9:58 pm. That is two minutes shy of an hour that most people her age are counting sheep instead of eating lamb chops.  With Whitney’s hair swept back off her eternally beautiful face and tied in the back with ...

Marylou Whitney, escorted by her husband John Hendrickson, entered the main dining room of the Wishing Well restaurant on Route 9N at 9:58 pm. That is two minutes shy of an hour that most people her age are counting sheep instead of eating lamb chops.  With Whitney’s hair swept back off her eternally beautiful face and tied in the back with ...