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Saratoga

Opening Day

… at Saratoga has arrived, and there is no shortage of picks, opinions, stories from history, or personal reminiscences to read …

Posted in Racing on July 29, 2009 / Tagged Saratoga

Saratoga Entries

… for opening day have been drawn. It’s a full card of 10 races, with 106 entries, plus more than two dozen also-eligibles. Long-absent stakes winner Pyro returns in the third, the James Marvin Stakes; Aegean, one of trainer Wesley Ward’s American invaders at Royal Ascot, makes her first start since her trip abroad in the day’s feature, the Schuylerville Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, which also drew Hot Dixie Chick, a track record setter at Churchill Downs last month, and G3 Debutante winner Decelerator.

Posted in Racing on July 24, 2009 / Tagged Saratoga

Bye-Bye Broadway

First time starters Hello Broadway and Eibar Coa (inside) battle to a neck victory over Imperial Council and Edgar Prado at Saratoga, August 30, 2008. [Earning trainer Barclay Tagg many congratulations for the rest of the afternoon.] (Uploaded by budmeister 26.2 to Flickr)

Hello Broadway injured, retired.

Such a shame. The quirky half-brother of stakes winner Nobiz Like Shobiz never quite made good on the promise he showed winning his debut at Saratoga last summer, with his only other win in nine starts coming in a Keeneland allowance this spring, but I’ll miss following the chestnut colt regardless. You never really knew what Hello Broadway was going to do in a race, or if he’d ever put everything together again, and he was almost always overbet, all of which made him a poor play, but a lot of fun to watch.

Posted in Racing on July 22, 2009 / Tagged Barclay Tagg, Favorites, Hello Broadway, Retirement, Saratoga