If you're wishing for 318 square feet in the former Riddle "cottage" catty-corner from Saratoga Race Course, this one's for you! Complete with murphy bed. 😊 🏇

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Congratulations, Hall of Fame class of 2025! I'm especially glad about trainer George H. Conway, shown here at Saratoga on Aug. 14, 1937 (Travers) during a special exhibition with triple crown champion War Admiral. (Morgan Photo Services - courtesy of The BloodHorse archive)

Check out the video. He is smoooooooooth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEG5...

"2025 Kentucky Derby Clocker: Sovereignty impresses in first local drill" Mike Welsch has the Kentucky Derby Clocker Report for Saturday, April 19. #RacingSky 🏇 www.drf.com/news/2025-ke...

I know Lukas works horses fast but my goodness, his work was blazing-fast!

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Thank you, Jennifer! Red led me on wonderful adventures, seeking him and those who knew him best. P.S. - For more on Man o' War's great rival, check out "Sir Barton and The Making of the Triple Crown." And meet 2nd & 3rd Triple Crown champs, Gallant Fox and his son Omaha, in "The Foxes of Belair."

Excited to see how this develops! 🏇

“The woman, who had been grooming horses in NY for 21 years, texted the trainer’s deputy to ask for a few dollars to cover expenses. She showed me the man’s reply: He insulted her and threatened to send her and her family back to Guatemala.” A grim look at the sport www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

So pretty! and fuzzy horse makes it A+

Wishing good healing to Sierra Leone.

Better for judges to completely disregard what any horse does with his or her tail while showing, than to artificially alter a horse's tail carriage.

In case any of y'all are nearby and interested.

Continuing with the Sir Barton theme this Black History Month, I'd like to recognize the gentleman at Sir Barton's head, his devoted groom Warren "Toots" Thompson. As J.K.M. Ross shared in Boots and Saddles, this horseman was one of the few humans that the first Triple Crown winner liked.

"RIVER THAMES ($3.40) has a gear the others don't have" - Announcer Pete Aiello Todd Pletcher trains the Maclean's Music colt for owners WinStar Farm. John Velazquez was in the saddle of the undefeated three-year-old.

Love this. "The Eddie Truman Library will be based in a backstretch recreation center and will include books donated by Truman. The library will include titles in English and Spanish... "The track is accepting book donations at the security booth at gate 8, off Baldwin Ave." 🏇

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July 18, 1991—a wicked hot day at Rockingham Park, figuratively and literally. My photography wasn't great ... but here's gorgeous Marquetry, who won the New England Classic that sweltering afternoon. The American Championship Racing Series (ACRS) for older horses sure was fun while it lasted!

Sigh. I miss when the best U.S. dirt fillies and mares raced 10 furlongs and more. 🏇

Sometimes a horse just catches your eye. This was 3-year-old Green Fee (Green Dancer-Raska, by Rahy) at Saratoga before running 6th in an August 22, 1999 inner turf allowance. Three years later, he won the Grade 2 Kelso at Belmont and ran 5th in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Arlington Park. 🏇

My 2003 Hopeful Stakes pics include: BIRDSTONE! Hitting the gate at start, he rallied five wide & finished 4th. Next year he foiled Smarty Jones's Triple Crown bid. Also won the Travers in a thunderstorm. We ran out in the rain, cheering beside the winner's circle where Marylou Whitney celebrated.

The cup won by Battleship, son of Man o' War, for the 1938 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England, is the most beautiful trophy I've ever seen. During a 2019 Racing Museum visit, it was fun finding this beauty on display in a repurposed space that used to be my office! 🏇

This advice probably works with nervous people, too. 😀

“She was so sound and healthy on the racetrack and that carried over into her broodmare career and into retirement. She's still very healthy. She just amazes us all the time. Occasionally she'll even still give us a little run when she gets turned out if she's excited.” 💕

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Feeling as if this Standardbred "been there, done that" former racer will made someone an excellent mosey-along pal. 💕 newvocations.org/horse_detail...

War Admiral, Seattle Slew, Alydar, Easy Goer, "Fifty Years of Champions," Lady's Secret, Ruffian, and Secretariat prints. Wowza! 🤗

Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown will be part of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Book Club this April! I hope you will join us at the Museum or via Zoom (like me) for a fun discussion about Sammy's story. Happy Reading!

Look who's coming back in March. Good luck to an outstanding horsemen. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/jimmy-jerken...

Love love love! Check out the TDN video in article.

Lovely seeing young fan's delight and The Grizzly so gentle with him! 💕

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Totes agree about Champion Older Dirt Male, and so much else in this analysis. 🏇

He's eye-catching, for sure! In linked article, trainer Lukas calls him "very correct" (sure looks it here) and is eager to "stretch him out" in two-turn races.

Trainer Brad Cox's $1 million Into Mischief 2yo Tappan Street appeared in deep trouble approaching the stretch, then surged once clear for the drive to run down pace setting Bob Mo to capture his debut in GP 5th, Luis Saez aboard. -Mike Welsch

Merry Christmas and happy all holidays! 🎄🏇🎄 (Man o' War bronze at Kentucky Horse Park, December 2013)

He has a beautiful way of going. 🏇

Tapwrit has such an interesting mix of speed and classic stamina in his pedigree. Along with Seattle Slew, Unbridled, and more, second dam sire Hawkster was multiple Grade 1 winner going long on turf. www.pedigreequery.com/tapwrit

Letters from Country Life: Adolphe Pons, Man o' War, and the Founding of Maryland's Oldest Thoroughbred Farm by Josh Pons Josh Pons depicts a century of life inside the horse business, written from inside the fences of Country Life, MD’s oldest Thoroughbred farm. www.amazon.com/Letters-Coun...

Godspeed to Lemon Drop Kid, one of my favorite Travers winners (1999). ♥️🖤🤍

The fact that the only thing standing between Baffert and total dominance of the West Coast's Derby Trail is a horse named "Journalism" is both more poetic and more on-the-nose than anything I could have ever dreamed up.

🏇 Dec. 6, 2010, camera & I froze in 17 degrees Fahrenheit but SO worth it! Zenyatta (shown with groom Mario Espinoza) was as impressive as anyone could wish in her last public appearance. Afterward, I heard one man tell another, "That there was like going to hear Babe Ruth's final farewell speech."