… and Take Control.
What does a $7.7-million buy-back son of two Horses of the Year have to do get a little attention around here? Like me, you may have been surprised to notice Take Control, the son of A.P. Indy and Azeri, entered in the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita as he hasn’t raced since last July. What kind of injury did…
Freshness was not a factor
While perusing the Preakness PPs last week something jumped out at me. It was the amount of lines per each entrant… they were kind of long! Govenor Charlie was the only Preakness entrant with the lightly raced profile of three races and Departing was next with five. Here, see for yourself. In a conversation with the Railbird (where I mentioned…
How Good Is Invasor?
I’m a big fan of race replays on YouTube. If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen me grumble about this from time to time (and if you haven’t, you will at some point along with a host of other petty complaints). One such grumble was that Invasor’s spectacular 2007 Donn Handicap was no longer on YouTube. In…