By Thomas Chambers

I have a very good longtime friend who lives, if I did the right vector Victor, 182 miles straight north of my house.
She’s in the middle of town really, but has such a nice yard that a deer or two will visit once in awhile. Not to mention rabbits. But her two cats watch over.
A friend for years before that, we ended up both being big fans of horse racing. I’m not sure how that happened, or the genesis of it, and I might be responsible for it. But where I’m a crusty bread heel, she loves the knockabouts and the class both, finds and sticks to a favorite horse, and then shows me how So And So the colt seems to be running well. “What about this one? He looks good.” She’s got instinct. Reads the Past Performances.
That’s handicapping. It is.

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Posted on May 3, 2020

By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

We like the Nick Foles deal just fine, despite the brush fire that broke out this week. Here’s why. Plus: Dennis Rodman’s Last Dance; Relive Sammy Sosa Next; Danny Wirtz and Michael Reinsdorf Assert Themselves; and Good Riddance, Kentucky Derby.

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Posted on May 1, 2020

By Thomas Chambers

When this is over, one of the good memories will be how Oaklawn Park, Hot Springs, Arkansas, rolled with the punches and singularly crafted American Thoroughbred horse racing on a festival level when horseplayers and even other gamblers appreciated it most.
Sure, cookies crumbled a certain way, including the Kentucky Derby being knocked flat on its ass, but Oaklawn found a way to extend its meet with, by the way, real horse racing. Right here and now, lets celebrate Oaklawn.

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Posted on May 1, 2020

By Thomas Chambers

Like the monster’s claw arising from the hardpan, Churchill Downs Inc. is now awake, fully poised to wreak its consistent, insidious greed upon Thoroughbred horse racing and sports in general.
Starting this Saturday.

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Posted on May 1, 2020