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Front Page News - June 11, 1973
It was refreshing to see all the front page stories on Rags to Riches as reported in Equidaily. Racing doesn’t ma…
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Amelia Would Be Proud
My Mea Culpa: A overly confident blogger once wrote: A mile and a half for any three-year old is terra incogn…
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ABC's Belmont Coverage - Too Much Talk, Not Enough Racing
ABC like NBC, when they covered the Preakness, has chosen to totally ignore the undercard. Since ABC came on at 5PM th…
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Iwontbetenwidetoday
Truisms are usually simple and here at Not To The Swift when it comes to handicapping I like to keep it simple. …
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A Ticket You Couldn't Throw Away
Here's a gem from the Not to the Swift Archive(which is located in my basement and not open to the public). …
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Amelia Earhart Made a Similar Mistake
In 1937, thirty two years after Tanya became the last filly to win the Belmont, Amelia Earhart’s plane nosedived into t…
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The Greatest Belmont Stakes
In my mind the 1978 Belmont Stakes will always be the greatest race I ever saw, yes I was there that day. Followed clos…
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Racing Has More Than A Nail Infection . . .
Digger’s entry in the Belmont Stakes was just about as welcome as a nail infection; the entry of the over matched co…
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Apply Even Pressure
What’s that gushing sound? It’s the sound of a bleeding and mortally wounded Triple Crown series. Has anybody at the…
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Einstein Wouldn't Bet on Her
In 1905 Einstein (the human not the horse) was still working in that patent office, Mata Hari who was the Madonna of…
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Buddha Has Left the Building
The slots take per machine is way down at Gulfstream Park, which must mean its summer time in Florida. The snowbirds…
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Triple Crown
Broken Crown
Larry Jones, the colorful cowboy trainer with a never say die attitude is the most pleasant surprise of the Triple Cro…
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Blinded by the Light Off Andy Beyer's Head
ESPN's coverage was much better than NBC's. The minute NBC came on they pissed me off by not spending two minu…
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I Think We Got Nipped~ Carl Nafzger
What looked like certain victory, snatched away. Hey that is horse racing and there is no disgrace in this loss. Stree…
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The Quacks are Running Wild in Albany
The saga over how to reinvent the NYRA franchise just goes on and on. With each passing day the politicians involved l…
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It was just my imagination, running away with me
Remember that reporter from the Miami Herald who wrote that idiotic article alleging Jose Santos was carrying a buzz…
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The Washington Post Done Me Wrong
Now I know why Richard Nixon hated the Washington Post. Well maybe not for the same reason I do. After all Nixon was t…
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The Uneventful Preakness
You don’t have to read the Bug Boys regularly to know that racing in Maryland is almost dead. Maryland My Maryland wil…
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The Irish Invade France
Things are once again relatively quiet stateside this weekend as all eyes turn to the Preakness a week from tomorrow…
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The Sheepshead Bay Sheeplechase
I thought they ran this race at Aqueduct? Looks like Todd Pletcher trains number five !
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Your Average Kentucky Derby Winner
Is there such a thing? For the most part Derby winners are extraordinary horses and for some the exertions of prepar…
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Your Average Coupon-Clipping Horse Player
I made a pilgrimage down to the new Philadelphia Racetrack and Casino about a week ago, enticed by two coupons in the …
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The Green Monkey isn’t the only monkey on Todd’s back
They say it is lonely at the top and I would guess Todd must feel pretty lonely back at the barn this Monday morning…
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Todd, Can We Talk ?
OK so you’re 0 for 19. Yeah maybe there’s something about your training methods that keeps you from getting what every…
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Thank You Street Sense Part II
Thanks to the kind owners of Birdbirdistheword who allowed me to visit with their fine colt back in February I got to s…
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The Juvenile Jinx, Can Street Sense Overcome The Odds?
Is there really a Juvenile Jinx? If you look at the following chart, you will see a graphical representation of the …
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Chasing Barbaro
Has anyone actually seen this documentary yet? I know it was preempted by Alan’s beloved Rangers back on April 29th an…
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Cockney Rebel Wins the 2000 Guineas at 25-1
Two furlongs out Cockney Rebel strikes the front to win the 2000 Guineas by 2 lengths in a huge upset under Olivier Pe…
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2000 Guineas: Diamond Tycoon Has 250 Owners
Here's a great story in the Racing Post about one of the Guineas runners. Over the years, many have competed…
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee ~ Teofilo Out of Guineas
5-2 favorite Teofilo was withdrawn from Saturday's 2000 Guineas yesterday. A reoccurance of a knee injury may…
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Will A Solomon Step Forward ?
Here we are with 48 hours to go until the Derby and the impasse between TrackNet and TVG goes on, an appeal by a numbe…
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What If Todd Was A Horse ?
Todd Pletcher’s record in the Kentucky Derby is 14-0-1-1. What if you were asked to handicap a race where strangely th…
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Ray Kerrison's Amnesia
In his column today, Say Goodbye to the Derby as we know it, Ray Kerrison of the New York Post unloads both barrels at…
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Overly Simplistic Slot Players and Obsessive-Compulsive Horse Players
Reader Lenny makes some very astute observations in response to my post about the small field sizes at Delaware Park an…
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Yippee, Delaware Park Opens: Home of the Six Horse Field
I hate playing races with really small fields, you can’t decent odds, even the worst horse in the race goes off at 10-…
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The Return of Red Rocks, Dylan Thomas and Yeats Set To Run
Breeders Cup Turf Champion Red Rocks returned to his winning ways after a dismal performance in Dubai last month. …
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The Showdown at Sha Tin
This will be a relatively quiet weekend for racing here in the states but there are two big races in Hong Kong on Sund…
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Content Providers Battle While The Racing Fan Suffers
As a racing fan I have grown accustomed to hunting and gathering racing content where I can find it. The industry is f…
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WARNING: Derby Fever Can Cause A Philosophical Tizzy
Winning a Kentucky Derby prep in April can undermine even the most firmly-held philosophy; witness the words of Greg F…
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English 101
Just in case you forgot the spring triple crown races are fast approaching across the pond too. The English Triple Cro…
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Curlin's Inferno
At the moment, it appears Curlin will be the betting favorite for the Derby. I expect that he will join a long and dis…
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This Zavata Never Ran At Saratoga . . .
Most racing fans remember Zavata as a promising two-year old owned by Tabor and Smith who won the Saratoga Special i…
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The Polyandy Principle: Keeneland's Surface is Ugly, Messy and Wrong
To hear Andy Beyer tell it, there’s something strange or even freaky going on at Keeneland these days. Andy thinks t…
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352-1: Not By A Long Shot
That’s the number of pages in T.D Thornton’s fine new book, Not By A Long Shot and a good estimation of the odds tha…
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Put the Poly Prep Winners on the Bottom of Your Exotics
Horse racing is about differences of opinion (heated ones sometimes) but for the first time in the history of the Kent…
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To Hell With Handicapping . . .
I know there are a lot of you cerebral types out there who think you can figure out this game. I am not one of you. I …
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The Story of Hard Spun and the Three Surfaces
Once upon a time, there was a racehorse named Hard Spun Hard Spun liked to run and he liked to win From Philly Park t…
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Will There Be A Quorum For The Blue Grass Stakes?
In law, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that gro…
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Maybe I Should Get A Trainers License?
It seems blinkers on and some cotton balls stuffed in his ears(allegedly) is all it took to make a Grade 1 winner ou…
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