WINNER! 1st SEMI-ANNUAL UNDERGROUND HANDICAPPING BATTLE ROYALE!
Hi, I’m Candice, a wannabe famous Thoroughbred blogger. I have picked 10 of the past 13 Kentucky Derby winners. My best day at the track was in March 2008, when I picked 5 exactas at Oaklawn Park. I live in Memphis, Tennessee.
SOme of my favorite Thoroughbreds include Thunder Gulch and his son Point Given; Real Quiet, the horse who broke my heart and showed me what it felt like to finally witness a Triple Crown winner if only for a few minutes; Skip Away, a champion 3 years in a row and the last great handicap runner; Silverbulletday, wonder filly; Secretariat, Dr. Fager and John Henry. I also liked Barbaro and Eight Belles, but their careers were so tragically short that I cannot list them with all of these other fantastic runners.
Other, non-stakes-winning horses I always enjoy watching are My Little Connor and Smarty Matt Jones, who race at Oaklawn.
I also like Elvis, the Beatles, classic rock in general, and anything that is not stupid or “reality” on TV!
6 Comments
July 3, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Hey! Nice blog! I had no idea it was you until I went to About the Blogger. And of course, I should have known! Thanks for checking out my blog. I have a lot of fun with it. And what you’re doing here is very impressive! Good for you. Good for us! We be writers!
September 25, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I think you should delete the photo of Penny Chenery with the hard flash. She is much more beautiful than that.
September 29, 2008 at 6:17 am
HI Candace,
A pleasure to meet you and your parents the other weekend… what a great time! You have a wonderful blog sight too, great photos. I wanted you to know that Tony Battaglia’s filly, who he has in training, is by one of your favorite horses, Skipaway… her name is Skipaway Star! A four year old bay, 16.2 hands and the personality of a baracuda. She was in the barn at the Training Center, geez, if I had known I would’ve taken you in to see her… next trip.
Loved the Secretariat Festival photos – very memorable day that was.
Don’t forget to send that note to Tony at Claiborne on Elvis stationary – he’ll love it!
Stay in touch, kind regards, Mary
September 29, 2008 at 6:27 am
HI Candace,
Forgot something… check out my little guy’s website who was in the look-alike contest
http://www.shrekretariat.com
We call him Addie. We’re going to add to the site down the road, ie, follow his career. I’ve decided to syndicate him to benefit the Woman in Racing foundation. More on that later… but we just got that site up and going the other week.
Mary
March 3, 2009 at 7:56 am
Hey,
I’ve been checking this site out since a friend of mine sent the link about the Secretariat Festival to me. The aforementioned Addie is one of my favorite horses in the world and is definitely, in my opinion, one to watch. But enough of that. I love reading you posts on her and all of the replies that you get for them.
Maggie
March 13, 2009 at 10:47 am
Question for you.
What do you think the chances of Charitable Man making it to the Derby. He has had about 5 workouts and I am thinking early April for some sort of test.
Thanks.