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By Lenny ShulmanFor the last nine months—or was it eons—the racing world has been fixated over a match-up that, like world peace, an edible fruitcake, or a Triple Crown winner, has remained tantalizingly out of reach.Gladly, the time has come to forego our dreams and desires concerning the two fabulous females. After all, a watched pot never ...

Some horsemen are complaining that they can't get their horses into a race.  The complaints are especially loud from trainers who have traveled their stock to Saratoga from long distances, specifically Kentucky and California.  PJ Campo, the racing secretary, has filled the majority of races that have been run at the meet to the ...

Judging by the style of his victory in the Haskell Invitational Handicap (gr. I), Lookin At Lucky (by Smart Strike (TrueNicks,SRO) out of Private Feeling by Belong to Me (TrueNicks,SRO), and TrueNicks rated A++) will be tough to dethrone by any other three-year-old, with possibly only Super Saver a threat should he find himself back in the ...

TrueNicks welcomes graded and multiple stakes winning sprinter Sing Baby Sing (TrueNicks,SRO), a new stallion for 2011 standing at Lane’s End Texas. A son of Unbridled's Song (TrueNicks,SRO), Sing Baby Sing captured the six-furlong Phoenix Stakes (gr. III) at Keeneland, and his career included stakes wins on dirt, turf, and synthetic, ranging ...

Charlie Zast of Queens, NY has never missed being in Saratoga on his birthday. But one of these years, August 1 will fall on a weekday and his mom and dad won't be able to drive him up the Taconic to see the ''heeshes'' on the date that he broke his horse racing maiden. In the meantime, he's here and he's happy. ''Heeshes'' is Charlie's ...

People pretending to be someone other than they are constituted a theme. Siro's booked an Elvis Presley tribute band to play in its backyard on Friday evening and the performer who played Elvis took his role so intently that you wondered if he was channeling the original.  Johnny Enright, a fellow from Malta, NY dressed as wrestler Hulk ...

Having established himself as the dominant horse in Macau – where he became the first Triple Crown winner – Luen Yat Forever is set to return to his homeland, Australia, to tackle top-class opposition. The announcement was made following his win in last Saturday’s Star of The Sand Stakes (Macau gr. II event), and the plan calls for his homecoming ...

Optimists will say that NYRA caught a break Thursday when Judge Barry D. Kramer, a former NBA basketball player, ruled that Aqueduct Entertainment Co. could not sue Lottery for excluding it from further consideration in the nine-year process to name a VLT operator for Aqueduct.  But pessimists will point out that Gov. Exit and the two ranking ...

Responding to pressures for new sources of revenue to fund the federal government, on Wednesday of this week the U.S. House of Representatives, Financial Services Committee, approved the “Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act” (H.R. 2267) by a vote of 41-22.  H.R. 2267 was introduced by committee chairman Rep. ...

As previously stated, I am going on vacation this weekend for about 10 days. Though there is plenty to be done before my R&R in Cape May, N.J., I'd like to give some quick picks on this weekend's exciting racing action, and get your thoughts as well. Good luck to everyone this weekend and be sure to look for a couple of guest blogs ...