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: December 2008
Fans and gamblers
Last September I wrote a post about ways to market to fans and get them to bet; I suggested then that it might be worthwhile to figure about how much tracks would like fans/visitors to bet per visit, and create … Continue reading
Ladies Handicap, #137
There was no storybook ending to the Ladies Handicap on Sunday afternoon. Sweet Goodbye, the choice of those poetically inclined, finished last, providing no historically appropriate ending to this race, the last of which I can only hope that we … Continue reading
Journalists at work
The holiday break couldn’t have come at a better time for NYRA or New York racing fans, given the events at Aqueduct on Sunday. In the fifth race, Routine Addendum went down at the top of the stretch. Did he … Continue reading
Do-over
When my students and I discuss literature, we talk a lot about authorial intent: How do we find out what it is? Does it matter? Is it meaningful/significant if we find meaning/significance in something that the author didn’t intend, or … Continue reading
Unintended implication
Got an e-mail yesterday from NYRA titled “Ladies Handicap—Sweet Goodbye.” That’s nice, I thought; NYRA recognizes the importance of the race and is going to acknowledge that it may not be run again. Silly me. Sweet Goodbye, trained by Christopher … Continue reading
The Ladies Handicap
I live in a city that takes unabashed glee in the evisceration of its physical history. Tourist and natives alike are hard-pressed to discover any remnants of the Dutch and British settlements that settled Manhattan; little is left of the … Continue reading
Thursday morning quick picks
Andy Serling of NYRA writes with some updates/info on recent topics. Commenter LJK wrote on Monday to call attention to Conformondi, who went down after winning at Aqueduct last week; he said that it looked “catastrophic,” but Serling tells us … Continue reading
The return (we hope!) of Saratoga Russell
When last we saw Saratoga Russell, he was struggling home last in the Gotham. He’d gone to the lead and faded badly in the stretch, emerging from the fog to stagger home. He had been so impressive to that point: … Continue reading
Wanna play?
A friend recently told me about a local numbers game in Washington Heights, the neighborhood in northern Manhattan in which he grew up. As a kid, he worked at one of the local bodegas, and folks from the neighborhood would … Continue reading
Monday morning thoughts on Sunday
Three horses break down at Aqueduct over the last week, but over two tracks—what does that mean? RIP, Megadiva; Yes She’s a Lady appeared to be OK after unseating Rajiv Maragh in the collision; both he and Winston Thompson were … Continue reading
