By George Doria, The Saratoga Sire The Keeneland January 'Horses of all Ages' sale ended with a drop in gross of 53.4% from last year. The steady and steep drop in prices, that started to make itself evident...
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By Robert Marks, They’re in The Gate A outstanding post by Valerie at Foolish Pleasure on Steelers founder Art Rooney and his 2 day killing in 1936 at 2 New York Race Tracks has inspired me to write about...
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By Valerie Grash, FoolishPleasure On February 1, the Pittsburgh Steelers will attempt to become the first professional football team to win 6 Super Bowl titles-the "Six-Pack" as folks are calling it here...
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By Patrick Patten, Handride You think I'd miss a chance to pat myself on the back? Just read Alex Waldrop's new blog post And read this quote: "And a plan for the next 100 days will be presented to the...
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By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable Here are a few articles that were in Sunday's Washington Post : A quarter pager on an area high school track meet; Another quarter page article on a local high school...
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Courtesy of Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch Last August, Jessica Chapel of Railbird and I were invited by Seth Merrow of Equidaily to appear on his show on Capital OTB to discuss how the Internet is...
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Courtesy of Ryan Patterson, GradedStakes.com Finding an industry that has friendlier and more helpful people than horse racing would be quite a task. I can remember when I first gained interest in racing...
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Andre Agassi is the perfect poster boy for image trumping reality. He was the rock star of tennis from the moment he set foot on the court in 1986, but he didn't win his first Grand Slam event until 1992...
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Michael Nikolic, Gathering the Wind I never gave much thought to routine. Every morning I wake up to a face full of dogs and an hours trudge around the neighborhood. It's nice and quiet and the few desperate...
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By Gene Kershner, EquiSpace It's puzzling to me. Back in September, Gathering the Wind had an excellent post titled with another word I had to look up (stochastics) regarding horse racing stewards and...
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