Archive for 2008

From: “John Hennegan” Cc: “Brad Hennegan” Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:55 PM Subject: HENNEGAN BROTHERS FILM PREMIERES IN 20 PLUS CITIES STARTING FRIDAY, APRIL 18TH Dear friend, It’s post time for the Hennegan Brothers… We’ll keep it short. We need everyone to go see THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY during it’s opening weekend. FRIDAY, […]

March 31, 2008 – “There are opening day pitchers and then there are pitchers who pitch on opening day.” Roger Craig

By Jude T. Feld Lots of great stakes action awaits players this afternoon. As usual, check the weather and the track conditions before heading to the windows. AQUEDUCT’s 8TH RACE is the Next Move (G3). It shapes up as a reprise of the Rare Treat – a matchup of RUNAWAY ROSIE and WILD HOOTS. WOW […]

March 29, 2008 – I like Florida. Everything is in the 80’s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ’s.” George Carlin

March 28, 2008 – “My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned 60 and that’s the law.” Jerry Seinfeld

By Jude T. Feld Canonero II returning to the Churchill Downs winners’ circle amid his happy connections. A small, wormy Kentucky-bred yearling with a quarter crack attracted few lookers at the 1969 Keeneland Fall Sale, but Venezuelan bloodstock agent Edgar Caibett saw something in the colt and bid him to a paltry $1,200. Shipped off […]

March 26, 2008 – “Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.” Robert Schuller

By Jude T. Feld Lane’s End Stakes (G2) day is the one day every year that all American horseplayers focus their attention on Turfway Park. With five stakes carded – one with Kentucky Oaks (G1) implications and two steppingstones to the Kentucky Derby (G1) – it is an afternoon that will certainly have an effect […]

March 20, 2008 – “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” Leo J. Burke

This was passed along by our loyal reader, Noreen Sullivan, and I thought you would like to know about it. Room Near the Chernobyl Accident Chernobyl’s Hero makes his nineteenth start at 4:55 pm (EDT) in Aqueduct’s 9th race on Thursday, a mile and seventy yard New York-bred allowance event carrying a $47,000 purse. Kentucky […]