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By Jude T. Feld The Cover of Bo Derek’s Autobiography Some call her a California surfer girl. Others refer to her as the widow of John Derek or “that pretty girl with the cornrows.” She’s been a Playboy model and a Cigar Aficionado cover girl. A conservative Republican who backed both Bush administrations, she is […]

By Jude T. Feld Craig Bandoroff, master of Denali Stud in Kentucky, wrote a Blood-Horse worthy piece for their Final Turn segment. It is well worth reading if you haven’t already. http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/finalturn/archive/2008/07/01/It-Isn_2700_t-Dead-Yet.aspx So much that you read and hear about racing is negative but just like the rest of the news, the nice things that […]

By Jude T. Feld The Personal Flag of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Dictionary.com describes patience as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. Considered a “Gift of the Holy Spirit” by the Christian church, patience seems uncommonly bestowed on royals by the Third Person […]

By Jude T. Feld No pickets this time? No People for the Ethical Treatment of Tigers? The pundits kind of side-stepped the medication issue too. “It’s just over-the-counter medication he’s taking. The kind you can buy in any pharmacy.” What a performance. Tiger Woods, noticeably in tremendous pain, hobbling around Torrey Pines after popping some […]

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 […]

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 […]

Miss Preakness – Maggie WolfendaleMaryland Jockey Club Photo 10) Frank’s Energy Drink Girls – Described as “Heidi Gone Prostitute” by a well-known racing pundit, with their velvet lederhosen, breast pumping corsets and long stockings, there is enough paraphernalia for almost any sex fetish. The fact that the girls have killer bodies adds to their appeal […]

By Jude T. Feld Cartoonist “Bud” Fisher parlayed his popular Mutt and Jeff into a rare Black-Eyed Susan and Preakness Double Harry Conway Fisher, “Bud” to his friends, was an American cartoonist who created the first successful daily comic strip in the United States. Born in Chicago, Fisher studied at the University of Chicago then […]

By Jude T. Feld Big Brown and Kent Desormeaux – 2008 Kentucky Derby Winning TeamJohn M. Weber Photo Kentucky Derby watch started for me at the end of Saratoga last summer. I was covering the races on Labor Day weekend there, for the Horse Racing Radio Network, when Big Brown, trained by Patrick Reynolds, annihilated […]