Archive for the ‘Bits’ Category

October 8, 2007 – “My grandmother has a bumper sticker on her car that says, ‘Sexy Senior Citizen.’ You don’t want to think of your grandmother that way, do you? Out entering wet shawl contests? Makes you wonder where she got that dollar she gave you for your birthday.” Andy Rooney

October 6, 2007 -“Speed never slumps.” Ron Santo – Former Cubs Third Baseman and Radio Color Man Guess Ronny’s never been to Keeneland.

October 3, 2007 – “Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.” George Carlin

September 26, 2007 – “The racetrack is the only place where the windows clean the people.” Joe E. Lewis

September 19, 2007 – Legendary jock agent Vince DeGregory passed this on: Ben Franklin said, “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink one liter of water each day, at the end of the […]

September 18, 2007 – International bloodstock agent of note, Dan Kenny, has come up with a new marketing slogan for Del Mar – “Where the Poly meets the trolley”

September 16, 2007 – Seen at Keeneland Simulcasting: A punter sporting a PSYCHO-BITCH MAGNET t-shirt.

September 15, 2007 – If you want to laugh your ass off check out www.indiancharlie.com.

September 14, 2007 – Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was using a Segway to get around the massive Keeneland barn area Thursday. It must be hard to “see the cat” as you zip by Taylor Made’s barn like a spaceman attired in slacks and a sweater vest.

August 20, 2007 – “You could start running her pedigree on your computer, go to lunch, and when you came back it would still be printing.” D. Wayne Lukas