I had quite a lot noted down to mention this week, but work, childhood illness and missed race training meant that I never got around to them. As I'm off for the Dogfish Dash (and I will likely run at a snail's pace thanks to the aforementioned missed training) as a prelude to an insane week...

As Dana put it, the rumors are indeed true; a few of us horse racing blogger types (along with a number of other fine people affiliated with the racing industry) have been arguing working on the NTRA Marketing Task Force for the past few weeks. We're not all going to Vegas (although as I understand...

While watching a long-forgotten bit of Animaniacs the other day, I noticed the following exchange between Pinky and The Brain in an episode about attempting to win the Kentucky Derby (from there, of course, taking over the world): The Brain: By analyzing the velocity-based paceline, mile turf win and...