2021 Preakness States Preview: Preakness 2021 is set to run this mid-May… of all the 2020 things… and smack dab in between the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Right as rain, right on schedule, right where it is supposed to be. Staking this horserace, a¢¢urately however, is another animal entirely. As I forthwith warn […] READ MORE
2018 Belmont Stakes preview: Belmont, ♬”New York, New York“♪, and the third and final leg of the 2018 Triple Crown season where lottsa wiseguys, horsemen and even a few horsehead will be trying to Justify their picks to you. As all that and more are now formally upon us this weekend in the lower western […] READ MORE
The 2018 Kentucky Derby: Kentucky bluegrass, Sun dressy mad-hatter she bleu-bloods, and man’s game he sized bourbon; all hosting the first weekend in May down at “...my old Kentucky home.“ Derby fans rejoice, as unlike last year, it looks to this humble scribe like we have some real live talent set to run for the […] READ MORE
Belmont 2017 is here and yet sans a Triple Crown threat it feels more like a N.b.a. sweeping Finals double-double threat; with one of those 10’s being chalked up in turnovers. As in this less than salty three-year old crop has sure turnedover from the Derby to the Preakness to Belmont Park. Stakes racing this […] READ MORE
2017 Preakness Stakes Preview: Preakness fans the middle -and shorter- leg of the 2017 A.D. Triple Crown season is upon us up in Baltimore, Maryland! This Saturday afternoon at ~6:48pm post-time, the Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming steps off as a heavy heavy betting favorite vs. the typically smaller or about half-Kentucky Derby sized Preakness […] READ MORE
#AndDownTheStretchTheyCome! Very much the blue-blood thing to do, this (Baltimore, Md.) Preakness Saturday afternoon 6:45pm post-time socialite scene. And you need not be some top shelf single malt flavor of blue-blood, or that entire dressy, tony, or cosmopolitan bourgeoisie, to appreciate the most exciting 3 minutes in all of sport. There may however be some […] READ MORE
#BourbonHatsFrillyWimminzMoBourbon Kentucky, bluegrass, an oval dirt track, an infield that has more than a pinch of Bourbon Street at night to me -sometimes a lot more- and maybe even something a little… Exotic, over at the betting window? Down at Churchill Downs; where the wimminz are typically, pricey, their hats cost even mo’ than that, […] READ MORE
