A short Breeders' Cup story: Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt Stopping to talk with Jerry O'Connell about the Breeders' Cup Classic. I asked Jerry "Having any luck today?" as he responded "no not really" and we began chit chatting. I was definitely curious about who he liked in the Classic and so that was most...
I will have a few stories to post later on the Breeders' Cup, but until I have time to jog my memory and share those with you, here are some things to keep you busy... --- I had a chance to get to know Ernie Munick in the field. He is a genuine guy and enjoys learning/teaching on the industry. Breeders...
Stable Boy and I will be posting video reels of horses in Breeders' Cup races. The goal is to split up the horses we have footage of, by race, so you can see what they look like around the track. So Bookmark/Favorite this page as we will be updating it for videos for each race. DAY 2 Classic Mile Dirt...
Alex and I were able to stop with Larry Jones for a bit and he was explaining that this is his first time at Santa Anita, so I'm not the only one. Anyway, Larry and his wife were talking about how they are excited about accepting their award at the awards dinner. He also had some interesting comments...
Watching the beautiful sunrise over the mountains track side here at Santa Anita for the first time was just amazing. We had a few good shots of horse and rider riding in silhouette against the sun rise. There are a few horses working and a lot of horses I have not seen in person. I am tweeting on twitter...
I am sitting trackside at Santa Anita. The sun is bright, sky blue and mountains rocky. We saw Careless Jewel, Colonel John and several other horses working out very nicely. You can tell there are a great number of high quality horses jogging around the synthetic and turf tracks. Now we are off to the...
Breeders' Cup I am off to Breeders' Cup Saturday morning at 6am. My plan is to try and give you all a few blogs from the track, sights and sounds, updates, and interesting observations. This will be my first time at Santa Anita, so I am excited about the trip. I wish Chantal was still around, but maybe...
Rob Dyrdek has competed in the X Games , set Guinness Book of World Records, and is an amazing skater period. He was born in Kettering, Ohio and used to travel down to my hometown of Lexington, KY to skate every now and then. A few of my friends would skate with him way back in the day. With Rob's location...
So it has been a while since I actually wrote words down as a blog. How is everyone? History is the key word for the past month. The time frame has held a lot of graded stakes, some amazing performances and lots of crisp, freshly written history. The horse racing world has also lost six or more legends...
John King, with CNN's State of the Union, recently visited Crestwood Farm and Hazard Kentucky. This is his brief with his staff on how Kentucky is doing. Word is getting out about our industry. Embedded video from CNN Video Three Chimneys has released their commercials for the Breeders' Cup on their...