Alan Carasso

There is a horse debuting Thursday at Saratoga named Choppin Brockley and I am here for all that.

The Sandberg news kind of puts baseball on the back burner, but the much-ballyhooed Cubs bullpen ain't that much anymore. Once unhittable, now sitting ducks. Lots of holes in this team.

.@PerfectSoulIRE has always pushed the envelope and his enterprising nature paid off when @SELECTSALE_eng grad Kana Tape (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) won the G3 Sekiya Kinen at Niigata on July 27 h/t @SireWatch @keenelandsales @LongBallToNoOne thoroughbreddailynews.com/prominent-owne…

Some of you may notice that the ML odds for the Whitney don't add up properly. I didn't want the presence of Mindframe (reportedly not running) to mess up the entire line, so I basically treated him as an AE and didn't count him when adding up the points.

From the DYK files: 2019 Pennsylvania Derby winner Math Wizard has been represented by three winners from eight first-crop starters this season in Mexico.

Following up on the radio tribute just now to Humberto Ascanio, here's a feature story I did on him for @DailyRacingForm in which Bobby Frankel talks about the trust he had in Humberto. RIP drf.com/news/right-han…

New @theTDN Rising Star Beyers: Brant 101 Tommy Jo 85

Hey, @DanDartsDawson, still trying to figure out just what you said from the time Luke hit the seventh perfect dart until the D15. I can't quite make it out, but it was massively entertaining. Who's on comms for the final?

Referenced the IM over Empire Maker cross on new @theTDN Rising Star Tommy Jo yesterday. Sovereignty never gave us the chance to crown him a RS, but interesting to note that his classy second dam Mushka is a daughter of Empire Maker.

The great @jon_sheets bats lead-off and then I’ll try to drive him home. Looking forward to evaluating Nysos/Lovesick Blues/Brant/Sovereignty and a lot more, including a 6-1 ML pick to spice up the Sunday card at @DelMarRacing

☀️ @EquinealTDN's Summer Breezes series, presented by @OBSSales, for Sunday, July 27 at Saratoga and @DelMarRacing. Huber (Omaha Beach @spendthriftfarm), a $700,000 #OBSApril @eddiewoods2yos graduate makes his debut at Del Mar⛱️. thoroughbreddailynews.com/summer-breezes…

Extrapolating/conjecturing a bit....had Brant kept going the extra sixteenth of a mile at the speed he was traveling, he'd have clocked something in the vicinity of 1:09. The Bing Crosby went in 1:08.74.

Lovesick Blues is one of two in the field not yet nominated to the @BreedersCup

Oh how I detest rehearsed commentary

Take 80 seconds out and watch. Total insanity. Bedlam. Made all the better by @DanDartsDawson and @Wayne501Mardle

I thought Baeza was perfectly ridden by Berrios, literally did everything right, and still couldn't get home, in receipt of 4 pounds and the superior trip notwithstanding.

Just too much horse and I'm giving that effort a B.

7-1, eh? Not 17? Never could have found that.

The Into Mischief cross over Empire Maker has accounted for several @theTDN Rising Stars, Tommy Jo the latest. That was really good.

Last seen finishing second to Straight No Chaser in the G2 Riyadh Dirt Sprint @BallyhaneStud @GoffsUK