For those keeping score at home, and you know who you are, the new Kentucky Derby eligibility system kicks into high gear Saturday when the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream and the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds each offers 85 points spread across the first four finishers in a 50-20-10-5 formula that guarantees howls of righteous protest when some poor horse is beaten a dirty nose for the win.
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Just to recap:
Bill Shoemaker turned 47 in August 1978. Two months later, he rode Exceller to victory over Seattle Slew in a Jockey Club Gold Cup for the ages.
On Aug. 26, 1979, one week after celebrating his 48th birthday, Shoemaker climbed aboard Spectacular Bid in an allowance race at Delaware Park. They became inseparable after that, winning 12 of their 13 collaborations over the ensuing 13 months and the title as 1980 Horse of the Year.
In an admirable display of bipartisan harmony, the Agricultural and Rural Development Committee of the Oklahoma Senate voted 9-0 last Tuesday to approve a bill that would allow for the operation of equine slaughterhouses in the state. The measure was passed without questions or debate.
When Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed last Sunday, there was $481,632 bet to win and another $139,861 in the exacta pool, which adds up to $621,493. That may seem like a robust number, but how grand a total is it?
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 16:16
There is always a period of chaos that follows the reign of a benevolent leader, or at least that’s what we were taught in Medieval History 101 when considering the vacuum of enlightened rule left by the death of Charlemagne. But what’s that got to do with Rainbow Six?
Each year, when January slides into February and the snow begins to thaw (or not), anyone with a blog, a microphone, or an old-fashioned byline is required by cultural tradition to step forward with their list of Kentucky Derby prospects.
It’s no big deal to live a hundred years. Hundreds have done it. Okay, thousands. In fact, the best estimates put the world’s current population of centenarians at around 300,000, with upward of 70,000 living in the United States, including that guy in Old Brookville, N.Y., who joined the club this weekend.
John Nerud’s attitude about living to be 100 was etched in stone a few years ago when, during an interview, he declared, “There’s damn few people 97, and even fewer 98.”
Phone log excerpt from Jan. 30, 2013:
“Hello?”
“Hello, may I speak to Dr. Fager?”
“One minute, please.”
Pause.
“Hello?”
“Hello, Dr. Fager?”
OK, hold on. At this point it is important to reassure worried readers that your reality-based correspondent has not descended into one of those anthropomorphic flights of fancy in which Seabiscuit answers his fan mail, or Secretariat offers a blow-by-blow account of his Belmont Stakes, or Zenyatta muses on the manhood of Bernardini.