Noted: January 15
– Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Folklore makes her three-year-old debut in the Santa Ynez at Santa Anita on Monday. “It’s a coming out party and she’s had a lengthy break. I think she’ll do fine,” said trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
– Louise Gans, who attended the Kentucky Derby 85 times, died at the age of 102 on Thursday.
– The National Handicapping Championship begins in two weeks, and contestants are preparing for the trip to Las Vegas, where they’ll compete against hundreds of other horseplayers for half a million dollars. Bill Finley is rooting for Hurricane Katrina survivor William Gonsoulin Jr.; the Happy Handicapper hopes to debunk Damon Runyon’s adage that “all horseplayers die broke.”
