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: March 2008
Summit on Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse
Dateline: Lexington, KY As Railbird noted yesterday, this week’s Blood-Horse reports on the proceedings of the second Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, held in Lexington earlier this week. The summit was coordinated and underwritten by the Grayson-Jockey Club … Continue reading
Andover Way
Dateline: Asheville, NC Arrived here yesterday to pick up my friend Wade, and within literally minutes of pulling into town was drinking pink champagne at a cool little wine bar nestled into the Grove Arcade, a beautiful old building that … Continue reading
What’s in a name?
If Greg Avioli, president and CEO of Breeders’ Cup, pays any attention to the Thoroughbred Bloggers’ Alliance, he must feel mighty chuffed at how his little plan is working out. Here we are in mid-March, fresh off a weekend of … Continue reading
Friday quick picks
I don’t know why I even look forward to posting the weekly Take 10! standings; it’s an exercise in repeated humility, and at this point, I just may be humble enough, at least as far as this game goes. 26. … Continue reading
Thursday morning quick picks
Well, Wednesday might not have been such a great day for Eliot Spitzer personally and professionally, but if he had taken my betting advice, he’d have had a decent return on his investment—much better to invest in the horses than … Continue reading
Spitzer Day at the Big A
I’m not particularly inclined to discourse much about the shenanigans of the Honorable Eliot Spitzer, but in perusing today’s Aqueduct entries, we have: Race 1: Divorce Court Race 2: Fast Million and E Z Dollar Race 3: All Night Labor … Continue reading
A summer morning with Kiaran McLaughlin
On Monday night I attended the Sampras/Federer exhibition match. Had Sampras won, I’d have been certain that it was fixed; Federer won in a third set tiebreak, so I’m only 99% sure. My tickets said 7:00; the match maddeningly started … Continue reading
The weekend recap
I didn’t get to Aqueduct until the fourth race on Saturday, and after watching the first race on television, I nearly decided not to head out. Poor John Imbriale—the horses broke, and unable to see anything through the dense fog, … Continue reading
The Morning After
I’ve already received at least three condolence messages following Saratoga Russell’s performance in the Gotham, and I can’t say that it wasn’t awful to be there, to watch him in the paddock (though I didn’t think he looked great, and … Continue reading
Sliding through history
Aqueduct offers the best of two racing worlds this afternoon, the present and the historical. We’ve got the Grade III Gotham, for three-year-olds with Derby aspirations. The race was first run in 1953 at the Jamaica racecourse and named for … Continue reading
