Heatseeker out of Gold Cup, revised picks!

HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP
1) GO BETWEEN
2) Student Council
3) Perfect Drift
I see Tiago making a good go at the end, but he’ll come up short like always.  Poly isn’t his best surface.

Belmont Park Weekend Stakes picks

I love Belmont.  It’s the site of the greatest Triple Crown race in history, the 31-length, 2:24, 1973 jaw-dropper victory by Secretariat.  It’s also the home of Easy Goer’s triumphs, Forego’s heroics, and the place where, mere weeks after 9/11, the city of New York pulled itself together to host a global sporting event in [...]

Hollywood Park Saturday Stakes Picks

The first step to becoming a nationally-recognized Thoroughbred blogger is to be a good handicapper.  I correctly predicted Big Brown would bomb the Belmont (just ask my boss, who *still* hasn’t heard the end of it), but I did not put it on the interweb — that’s gonna change starting now.

HOLLYWOOD GOLD CUP Gr1:
1) GO [...]

Here’s a movie I would Go See

I was listening to Drake & Zeke Monday AM, and they were talking to a sportswriter whose article about Barbaro is in the works to be a major motion picture.  That’s exactly what we need — weeper about a beautiful horse who wins the KY Derby, gets injured and then dies.  Isn’t that basically the same [...]

Once more, with Feeling

Here I go again, getting back to the real blogging world.  What can I say, Myspace is so much fun;-)  But if I plan on reaching my goal of becoming a professional thoroughbred handicapper, I’ve got to put my words out there where anybody can read them, no friending necessary.
Since my last post over a [...]