Handicatting with Floyd…
Down $29.60 and playing around a lot today. Catreign for the win. Also a $1 catzacta box of Catreign and Blondecat,and $1 doubles of R Clever Cat with Blondecat and Catreign.
…and with Imp and Furlong
Imp's up $27.70, with Furlong down $44. She takes Gatto Nero for the win; he goes with Blondecat. Both play a $1 catzacta box of Catreign and Blondecat, and $1 doubles of R Clever Cat with Blondecat and Catreign.
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
Category Archives: racing history
The first filly to win the Suburban Handicap: Imp, 1899
On June 17, 1899, the Suburban Handicap was won, in its 16th running, for the first time by a filly or mare. She set a stakes record (2:04 4/5), and she won by two lengths, in a field of 13. … Continue reading
Brooklyn-bound
No fewer than five racetracks were located in Brooklyn, over the course of the last century and a half. Though known as the “Borough of Churches,” Brooklyn might also aptly be called the “Borough of Backstretches.” The Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, … Continue reading
Met Mile snapshots, 1910
If you were paying attention to racing a hundred years ago this month, some things would look familiar: racing in New York shifted from Aqueduct to Belmont; the Metropolitan Handicap was run at Belmont Park; a former racehorse met a … Continue reading
Turf racing at Sheepshead Bay
Today at Belmont, eight fillies and mares will take to the turf for the 57th renewal of the Sheepshead Bay (GII). Sheepshead Bay is a small body of water in the southernmost part of Brooklyn, between the “mainland” and the … Continue reading
Allen Jerkens’ Shuvee winners
Over the last couple of years, the Shuvee Handicap at Belmont has offered the occasion to consider the magnificent horse who, en route to winning handicap mare honors in 1970 and 1971, twice won the Jockey Club Gold Cup, back … Continue reading
Dwyer Day
Regular followers of New York racing might expect to see the Peter Pan, a traditional prep for the Belmont Stakes, this week; instead, they’ll be seeing the Grade II Dwyer. Because neither the State of New York nor New York … Continue reading
Personal Ensign vs. Winning Colors
I wrote this a year and a half ago, shortly before the 2008 Breeders’ Cup. I recalled it this weekend, during so many conversations about Zenyatta, the Breeders’ Cup, Personal Ensign…and this race. It originally appeared at The Blood-Horse. What … Continue reading
"It is now post time": Fred "Cappy" Capossela
There is no sound more exciting to the racetrack customer than the trenchant, nasal exclamation of “They’re off!” by Fred Capossela. With this brief expression, the New York track announcer sums up the promise of clamorous jockeys, flailing whips and … Continue reading
"It is now post time": Fred "Cappy" Capossela
There is no sound more exciting to the racetrack customer than the trenchant, nasal exclamation of “They’re off!” by Fred Capossela. With this brief expression, the New York track announcer sums up the promise of clamorous jockeys, flailing whips and … Continue reading
Seattle Slew, the Gotham, star treatment, and the inner track
Nearly daily since last summer, some element of the behavior of Zenyatta, Rachel Alexander Alexandra, John Shirreffs, Steve Asmussen, the Mosses and/or Jess Jackson has been the subject of some article, some blog post, some Twitter comment. Love ‘em or … Continue reading
