Well, another month has come and gone. Tax season ended, the race meet started, Grayson ensured he rang out tax season short one shoe and then gained himself even MORE holidays by tossing one of his new shoes within four days of the reset that was meant to get us riding again. Nothing is ever simple, predictable, or easy with horses! After all that ruckus, I finally got him started back three days ago. Which leaves me with not much to write about, where he is concerned. (But he’s cute!)
Month: May 2024
2024 Shoemaker Mile Cheat Sheet: Get to Know the Horses
One of the annual marquee races on Santa Anita Park’s spring-summer calendar is held on Memorial Day. The $300,000, Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile Stakes usually attracts the best turf milers in California along with some shippers from out of state to compete, and a robust field is lined up for this year’s renewal.
Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Friday, May 24
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Goodwood, Hereford, Haydock and Pontefract.
A Special Preakness Stakes Reaffirms Bond Between Fathers and Sons
Back in 2012, when I was really just getting started as a writer, I wrote a long piece for Grantland about my late father, my young son, and a history of Preakness Stakes past. It was about family, and the sport of horse racing, and the strange way sports can carry forward ghosts of the past well into the future. It was about life and death and all kinds of lofty ideas I rarely have the courage to write about anymore. At the time I wrote it, it was not all that hard to write. Trying to go back and read it today, it is nearly impossible for me to look at.
