One of the greatest Thoroughbreds to grace the track in the last half of the 20th century passed away this past week.  John Henry, twice voted Horse of the Year the last as a nine year old and winner of four Eclipse awards as turf male and one as top older male horse, member of the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame and a personal favorite of many a race ( Read more... )

There are times I would like to throw this new one through the wall.  For starters I seem unable to get Yahoo messenger to work.  Then it takes stupid fits and I don't know which to blame--internet explorer or Vista.  I'll be online and it won't let me right-click on any link so I can open it in another tab.  Then on Equination it won't open the " ( Read more... )

In the shrine of the She-Cat am I
Bathed in the radiance of her golden eyes
Her promise is given and so it shall be
I will live again and you will belong to me

Gene McManus

Today around noon, Tippy, TC, Tippy Cat, went on the Shrine of the She-Cat by the Rainbow Bridge.  I still have no real clue what caused his liver disease.  No more Tippy sleeping on ( Read more... )

I have a horse!
He is a nine year old Appaloosa gelding named Rocket. Dian had adopted him out several years ago and the man had developed some health problems and coulddn't ride him or really take good care of him so Dian took him back. Dian is going to try and get back into riding regularly so has been trying to plan a trail ride. come November.  ( Read more... )

All right, I get back from Melbourne this week and go up to Freds to pick up some Red Diamond Sweet Tea.  I get back home ane hear. "Meow, meow".  There is a little kitten across the road.  So I start walking to the road and call"kitty kitty".  Up he comes. He's a mostly white little guy with a black tail and black patches on each ear  and a black ( Read more... )

Since I currently don't have an active thoroughbred racing forum that I visit regularly I'll just post my thoughts here.

First--Whoo Hoo Lawyer Ron! He set a track record in the Grade I Whitney and then won the Grade I Woodward by 8 lengths yesterday.  That boy can run! And I think he has laid to rest the thoughts of some that he was a better mile ( Read more... )

Finally went to see the latest harry Potter movie today.  Good movie. Of course alot had to be cut out from the book but overall a decent job of condensing what needed it and removing items that could be pruned without directly affecting the story line.  It was too bad that the bit over Ron and Hermione becoming prefects had to be cut out.  Casting ( Read more... )

That was quick wasn't it? ;)

I decided to share my equination foal names. Equination.net is an online racing game. You can buy, breed, train and race virtual horses and I have had a ton of fun with it. Part of which has come from naming foals I bred. The first one was a purchase though--the rest are from mares an online buddy from the racing forum ( Read more... )

Its amazing isn't it--I finally thought to post here ( Read more... )

Argh, my thoroughbred message board has apprantely crashed. Not happy ( Read more... )