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Blinkers Off Returns

Special correspondent Blinkers Off is once again roaming the Churchill backstretch and filing irreverent posts …

While this idiocy was going on, Papa Clem went out and whistled three furlongs in 34 seconds. A very fine reporter, actually paying attention, said the horse looked like he wasn’t even trying…

Tom Law, managing editor at Thoroughbred Times, picks him.

Later on, Nowhere to Hide went out for a gallop at 8:30 a.m. Nick Zito looked embarrassed to be there with such a popgun. All I could think of was the year he ran five and had a plastic fence installed around his barn to keep away the riffraff. This year, he’s running the riffraff.

This spring, though, instead of posting on Railbird, Blinkers Off is over at Raceday 360, which is beginning its expansion into original content. More on that development sometime Friday, right after a couple database issues afflicting the site this evening are addressed (items are slow to add, pages may be slow to load). Also, a bit of Oaks, and more Derby.


2 Comments

Ms. Chapel wrote:

This spring, though, instead of posting on Railbird, Blinkers Off is over at Raceday 360, which is beginning its expansion into original content.

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Can you please clarify who runs which site? And the history behind it? :D

Thank you.

Posted by The_Knight_Sky on May 1, 2009 @ 11:43 am

You ask a good question, Knight Sky. I haven’t explained the connection well. Here it is …

Raceday 360 is run by me. I started the R360 Wire part of the site in September 2008 as an experiment in aggregation/curation — the intent was not only to create one mega-stream of racing content, but to use tags to track various topics across sources. The plan has always been to grow the site beyond the Wire, though, to post original reporting, commentary, features, great photography, etc., as well as to develop some interesting research tools. That’s the phase R360 has launched on now. More on that this weekend …

Thanks for your interest.

Posted by Jessica on May 1, 2009 @ 12:19 pm