A depressisng story from Philly.com by Will Bunch Aside from his bad policy ideas, are there reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney for president? That’s a good question. For some critics, the answer may be intertwined with this question: Was Romney’s family cruel to animals – specifically, one of Ann Romney’s dancing horses that competed in […]
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The Old Nag
Even idiots like Joe Drape (who was inexplicably determined to carpet bomb the nation’s triple crown enthusiasm), couldn’t prevent a crowd of 85,811 from whooping it up at the Belmont Stakes. Attendance was up nearly 90 percent from 2010, and if there was disappointment in the air at a historic moment now out of grasp […]
Mark and Carolyn and I were at Santa Anita on February 12 and were on the track for the last race of the day – the Robert B Lewis Stakes. We weren’t paying much attention, hobnobing with jockeys and milling around with racing folk. What happened was, the race was won by the literal nag […]
“Lead Ponies”, aka “Nags”(what I like to call them, affectionately of course), are the spotted, speckled, fuzzy nags who you see palling around with the thoroughbred race horses out during pre race workouts. You’ve seen them, they are often insane looking – next to the sleek bay or chestnut thoroughbreds, they are loud and tacky. […]
Member of the famed racing family, Baze had 6,969 career starts with 918 wins with mounts earning $32 million. At age 20 he became the youngest rider since Bill Shoemaker (in 1950) to win a riding title at Hollywood Park. He rode 73 winners at the 63-day stand. He was 24. Details in Racing Forum