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By Jude T. Feld Two young gals are regular visitors to Belmont Park. For the last few years, they have created custom sweatshirts to wear on Belmont Stakes day. Last year, they sported Barbaro memorial ones. This year’s edition said, “Carnations are for Girls.” Heidi and Jessica and the 46,000-plus fans who eschewed Roger Clemens […]

1:00 PM – For the most part, Belmont employees are friendly and love to bet. Even the girls in the office play show parlays. 1:30 PM – The Manhattan clam chowder they sell in the grandstand is worth eating…even on a hot muggy afternoon. 2:31 PM – Some jock I’ve never heard of, J.A. Bracetty, […]

To the casual racing fan, this year’s Belmont Stakes (G1) is shaping up as a bit of a yawner. With no Triple Crown on the line and the Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Street Sense absent from the field, the race is just another blurb on Sports Center…

Farrell W. Jones is dead. I wonder which one died? The one Farrell Jones was a cantankerous old bastard who alienated everyone who loved him and even many that admired him. A fighter in his youth, a philanderer in…

How do I become an owner?…

Assorted friends and relatives shipped in to Lexington, Kentucky last week to honor the 50th anniversary of my birth…

Horse racing, and horses, lift the heart as sure as they break it…

As Sunday’s NFL divisional championship games were important, but still only a prelude to the Super Bowl, many of the weekend’s Thoroughbred races seemed to be tune-ups for events a few weeks or months down the road – some as far away as Dubai…

Glad to see all the neigh-sayers have quieted down after Russell Baze became the all-time leading rider. Who are these yo-yos that think his record is besmirched by riding mostly at Golden Gate and Bay Meadows?…

Eva Wilson was a short stocky lady, who drove a huge Studebaker and always wore black. She frequented Santa Anita and Hollywood Park and eschewed Del Mar, as “that track Bing built in the sticks.” A cross between Aunt Bea and Pittsburgh Phil, she was a win bettor. “You can beat a race, but you can’t beat the races”…