Archive for 2016

November 7, 2016 – Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.” Bob Marley

October 31,2016 – “When someone asks you, ‘A penny for your thoughts,’ and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?” George Carlin

October 13, 2016 – “The day’s of the digital watch are numbered.” Tom Stoppard

Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, in the Juddmonte colors, celebrating Arrogate’s Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victory. El Potro Roberto Photo By Jude T. Feld When your best bet of the two Breeders’ Cup days wins the first event easily and pays $15.20, you know it’s going to be a great weekend. Amerman Racing’s OSCAR […]

August 15, 2016 – “As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.” Benjamin Disraeli

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Mondialiste, an international runner with previous North American success, won the big one at Arlington Park’s International Festival of Racing after some “almost” efforts earlier on a card dominated by trainer Chad Brown and jockey Florent Geroux. Klimt and Gunnevera showed promise in early 2-year-old tests at Del Mar […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Frosted confirmed his standing in the top ranks among older horses with another impressive win, Cupid won his second Derby, Paola Queen upset the Test Stakes at Saratoga at big odds and several 2-year-olds showed promise in a full midsummer weekend of Thoroughbred racing. On the international front, Signs […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Preakness winner Exaggerator caught another sloppy track and won again in Sunday’s Haskell, Stellar Wind edged Beholder in a battle of champions out west, Flintshire was not to be denied on the Saratoga turf and a maiden won the Jim Dandy at the Spa, all in another topsy turvy […]

By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer California Chrome won but had to work for it, Songbird asserted herself in the stretch to win easily after a bit of a scare and globetrotting Highland Reel reeled in another Group 1 win in England — the highlights of weekend Thoroughbred racing. Bitumen and Sweet Loretta were the […]

July 18,2016 – “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once, and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.” Mark Cuban