Obsessed by all things that have to do with horses, particularly Thoroughbred pedigrees and racing history.
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2009
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Hello Sovereignty!
The 40th Kentucky Derby winner I have encountered.
The horse crazy little girl who started keeping a list in 91 would be mind blown at that number (and she is!).
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A very special delivery to @Keeneland tonight!
Forever Young and his stablemate Shin Emperor have made their way to the Bluegrass! #フォーエバーヤング
The messiah of the modern thoroughbred, a pony who didn’t fetch his asking price as a yearling.
Needless to say when I hear the phrase “well they are small” when looking at a yearling it makes me laugh.
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Forever Young’s win today was so fitting. The dark horses together again.
It all traces back to Arthur Hancock and Sunday Silence. @BelmontPark1905 reopens on the day Mr. Hancock passes, and Forever Young, a grandson of his breed shaping @KentuckyDerby winner Sunday Silence, wins the $1m Grade One Jockey Club Gold Cup for Japan 🇯🇵
Heartbreaking. What a legend and what a legacy. This leaves such a void in the industry.
Arthur B. Hancock III, the owner of Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky, died at his home on Friday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer according to his wife Staci. He was 83 years old.
thoroughbreddailynews.com/ar…
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So are we racing quarter horses now? Speed, speed, speed and shorter and shorter distances. It’s only a matter of time before the Derby is too hard and changed to 6 furlongs.
"NYRA contemplating shifting Belmont Stakes to shorter distance"
@DRFGrening has the news.
drf.com/news/nyra-contemplat…
Absolutely wild to watch a sport with such perseverance and history essentially destroy what it is best known for. It’s a sad time to be a fan of the sport knowing this is just a cheap bandaid on a bullet hole.
Dumb things this industry does for 500.
This doesn’t fix anything.
New three-year-old series between @ChurchillDowns Inc. & @TheNYRA. Will it replace the Triple Crown? horseracingnation.com/news/C…
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Kelly Jecmen retweeted
Three wins in a row for the team of @PletcherRacing and @RepoleStable as LIFE CHANGING, the half-sister to Preakness winner SEIZE THE GREY, breaks her maiden impressively in the fifth race under Luis Saez.
Good job filly ♥️♥️
LIFE CHANGING sent the Saratoga crowd into a frenzy as the @RepoleStable filly for @PletcherRacing dazzled in debut.
The daughter of first crop sire Life Is Good (@WinStarFarm) who is the half to GSW Seize the Grey announced her arrival in thrilling fashion.
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“This isn’t a department store…I always wanted it to be a boutique”. Legend status right there.
An inspiring interview featuring Alice Chandler and Mill Ridge in the 1990s, including the extraordinary story of Begum.
Thank you @StuKirshenbaum for sharing this wonderful piece of our history.
vimeo.com/1207920062?share=c…
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Love that one of my former lesson kids/barn rat & dear friend has had the opportunity to raise Golden Tempo’s 1/2 sister.
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The stories, the lore, the equine heroes are what is missing from big race day coverage.
Endless hours of clothing, betting odds, the cry baby change the crown babble, & a random pan of a horse isn’t what draws people in - ever.
The sport is about the horse after all.
In the absence of lore, horse racing becomes just another transaction, much like picking up a gallon of milk at the grocery store, and equally as interesting.
More: paulickreport.com/news/ray-s…
And we showed them hot garbage minus maybe 30 minutes. Imagine if the programming was actual good.
Yesterday was the most watched Kentucky Derby of all time…19.6 million for telecast and 24.4 million for actual race
It was higher rated than basically every sporting event besides the NFL and College Football title game
It’s crazy how much the Derby continues to grow
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All of this ♥️
I sold Ocelli for 12k, yesterday he ran 3rd in the @KentuckyDerby & won 500k.
And gues what? I'm celebrating.
Because of what this means for everything we still have.
Ocelli's brothers just became a lot more valuable. His mom Zalia is now a queen.
The bloodline we've been building for years just got validated on the biggest stage in racing.
One horse running 3rd at @ChurchillDowns does more for your breeding program than a decade of "he has potential" conversations ever could.
But there's a bigger lesson here.
Everyone passed on Ocelli because he had a "weird gait." Moved different. Didn't fit the template.
Turns out that weird gait was elite. Top 3 in the world elite.
The market constantly undervalues things that don't fit the mold. In horses. In real estate. In people.
The ones who move different aren't always broken.
Sometimes they're just built for something the rest of us can't see yet.
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