For some reason, I feel like it always rains on closing day at Saratoga. While I know this isn't true, perhaps because I'm always so depressed to see the greatest place on Earth close for 10 1/2 months that it always feels like a dreary day. However, there is little doubt that September 5th, 2011 was a washout, at least from a precipitation standpoint. On the track, as always, it was a different story. As has been the case for many of my 38 Summers at the Spa» Read More
Without a ton of distance in his pedigree, I don’t know how many people are going to support Prime Cut, who was third in the Peter Pan here on May 14, in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.» Read More
The week before the Kentucky Derby, I sat with Allen Jerkens in his golf cart on the Belmont backstretch. He had just returned from a winter in Florida; the chill of the Belmont morning had him attired in several layers. His face was ruddy from the Gulfstream Park sun.» Read More
With the Arc de Triomphe, Grand National, Snake River Canyon and the recently discovered Super Earth dubbed GJ 1214b by NASA as his immediate goals, Trinniberg (20) is the first toss. A red and yellow aircar will be hovering for him about the quarter-pole, and with aviator goggles and a smart trailing scarf he shall Jetson the leaders through the world's most famous stretch.» Read More