Noted: March 30
– The Skip Away could be a two-horse race between 2005 Kentucky Derby veterans Bandini and Noble Causeway. Both are returning to graded stakes competition for the first time this year off of good (and in Bandini’s case, record-setting) allowance wins earlier in the winter.
– The kid can ride: Apprentice Julien Leparoux broke the Turfway record for most wins in a single meet on Wednesday. The record-breaking win was Leparoux’s 151st out of 481 since January 1.
– Bill Christine remembers the “so-called golden age of horse racing” and can’t help comparing it to the sad state of racing today.
– Paul Moran pokes holes in NYRA’s new cash rewards program. “This is a case of much ado about very little in terms of real money.”
