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By Jennifer Wirth, of The Saturday Post In 1969, an ordinary coin was tossed into the air that held three sides – winning, losing, and everything beyond the two polar outcomes.The outcome of the coin toss was a testament to the principle that an extraordinary life doesn’t lend itself to pre-existing realities or expectations.  It is a ...

Originally published in the September 25, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   By Evan Hammonds   Changes to Keeneland’s September yearling sale aside, it’s hard to get a good angle on the yearling market as the first week of the ...

Part 3 of my Secretariat trilogy is a review of the long-awaited film that opens nationwide on Oct. 8. For those who wish to see the movie with an open mind and not be made aware of its flaws, you can just read the opening and closing graphs. To the casual and non-racing fans, the flaws will be of little concern. As much as I want the movie to do ...

By Lenny ShulmanHere in Central Kentucky, where we’ve just gone a month without rain, the grass and leaves are both turning brown, the evenings require a light jacket for the late dog walk, and the sun is blinding through the windshield on the morning drive east toward the office. Summer is finished, which means Horse of the Year talk is just ...

 The Disney movie, “Secretariat,” will be released on Oct. 8, but many, including myself, have already seen it or plan on seeing it before its opening.There already have been reviews published, most of them mixed. This is not  a review, but a merely a look at the real Secretariat through my eyes, my lens, and my recollections through a ...

(Originally published in the September 11, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell Keeneland has successfully developed the September sale into the largest international marketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings. But whether the sale ...

Last summer, just before he went into Saratoga Hospital to have a hip repaired, Dr. Leo Hoge, local racing historian and former medical practitioner, recounted his memories of Secretariat to library assistant Victoria Garza. Hoge and Garza met by chance beneath the colorful WPA frescoes that decorate the main entrance to the Post Office. “I took a ...

Jeff Rosen of East Meadow, NY said “the lines for the tee-shirts were six furlongs long.”  NYRA should go into the apparel business, if the deal for the Aqueduct casino doesn’t happen. An editorial in The Saratogian warned readers on Sunday that the politicians are still fumbling around with the details. “What are details but the bad ends of ...