Archive for 2008

By Jude T. Feld My cell phone has been ringing constantly since the Belmont Stakes (G1). “What happened to Big Brown?” The answer is, nobody knows. Big Brown, going from an absolute annihilation of his foes in the Preakness (G1) to being eased in the Belmont (G1) is certainly one of the biggest form reversals […]

Equine artist Kenneth Daly captures a pose of Woody Stephens so familiar to many colleagues and fans. By Jude T. Feld Woody Stephens, son of a Kentucky sharecropper, started his career in racing with little education and even less in his pockets. A true “rags to riches” story, Stephens rose from his modest upbringing to […]

June 7, 2008 – “When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” Bette Midler

June 5, 2008 – “There are 1.3 million single men in New York, 1.8 million single women, and of these more than 3 million people, about 12 think they’re having enough sex.” Carrie – “Sex in the City”

June 3, 2008 – “I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.” John F. Kennedy

June 1, 2008 – “In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.” Simon Hoggart

May 30, 2008 – “Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people – which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.” Dick Deddoes

By Jude T. Feld I don’t know if it was the two-week turn-around from the Kentucky Derby to the Preakness that left me “written out” or the fact that I didn’t want to take Maggie Wolfendale’s photo off the homepage, but it has been over a week since I posted anything new here. Maybe it […]

May 28, 2008 – “The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.” Jacqueline Kennedy

May 18, 2009 – Seen on a billboard near Pimlico: A picture of a diamond engagement ring with the caption, “It might be the last decision you ever get to make.”