Handicatting with Floyd…
Down $19.60 and going with Captain's Cat.
…and with Imp and Furlong
Imp's up $27.70, with Furlong down $36. He goes with Tycoon Cat, she takes Captain's Cat.
Madison’s fund for feline welfare
The cat horse winners during the Belmont spring meet added up to about $250, which was donated to All About Spay Neuter, the organization that helps take care of the Belmont cat colonies.
$155, representing the money made by cat horse winners at Saratoga, was donated to New York City Animal Care & Control
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Post-mortem
I still haven’t made it all the way through the six hours of TV coverage of Saturday’s races. Next time, I’m going to TiVo hour by hour, so that I can delete after each segment, instead of having the whole … Continue reading
This and that
A few random thoughts about the weekend’s racing: As has been noted on blogs and in newspaper stories, nine of the eleven Breeders’ Cup winners prepped on New York tracks. Many of the trainers are based in New York, so … Continue reading
George Washington
While I had a pretty fun day overall (financial considerations aside), I end it unsettled, as always, by the breakdown of another horse. George Washington’s death is no more tragic than that of any other racehorse at any other racetrack … Continue reading
Hello, Champ
And so it ends: as the World Series ends baseball season, and as the Stanley Cup playoffs end hockey season, so does the Breeders’ Cup Championship end the Thoroughbred racing season. Fortunately for us, unlike those other sports, we get … Continue reading
My picks
Just posted this to the TBA handicapping contest. Read ‘em and weep…by this tomorrow, I likely will! Juvenile Fillies: A to the CroftJuvenile: War PassFilly & Mare Turf: Passage of TimeSprint: ForefathersMile: Excellent ArtDistaff: Lear’s PrincessTurf: Dylan ThomasClassic: Curlin Disclaimer: … Continue reading
Wishful Thinking, Part II
As noted below, the number in parentheses following each race is Brisnet’s Prime Power rank in the race. Mile: Not much in the way of affiliation in this race, so I guess I’d love to see My Typhoon beat the … Continue reading
Wishful Thinking
If Monmouth was half as miserable this afternoon as Brooklyn was, I feel awfully sorry for all the people gathered down south: the Monmouth folks who worked so hard to pull this off; the patrons huddling for a warm and … Continue reading
Taking care…
…of children and horses. I wrote yesterday about the connection between Oprah Winney (who has her own website) and the Belmont Child Care Association, and I learned today that the Breeders’ Cup production crew was at Anna House recently. A … Continue reading
Membership, and Oprahs
As of Tuesday afternoon, Brooklyn Backstretch is officially a member of the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance. You’ll see the other members on the blogroll to the left, and I’m happy to say that a condition of membership is an annual donation … Continue reading
Detours
Last Wednesday afternoon, literally minutes before heading out to drive south to Virginia for a conference (on academic integrity—woo-hoo, right?), I exchanged a couple of e-mails with an internet horse racing friend who shares my affection for the horses of … Continue reading
