In my e-mail box today I received my newsletter from Tampa Bay Downs. Nothing unusual so far. I glanced at it knowing that racing is starting up there in a few days and that we'll be claiming out of this meet so I wanted to check it out a bit. What...

In the midst of mourning the loss of second peer in less than two years - very close friends both - I started thinking about how best to honor their memory. With Paul Benson's passing I vowed to live my life as truly and honestly as I could. The best...

The note came via a fellow fantasy basketball league member: "Should we still play? Paul died early this morning." It was out of the blue-ish. My friend, Paul Mooney, had cystic fibrosis and had already survived a double lung transplant performed over...

Sharpening Focus My last post was about where we want to run and the need for focus in making a decision in order to move forward. I've sharpened that up even more. When I spoke to Bernell this weekend, he was willing to go in on a horse with us. To...

We've been all over the map in recent months getting the next group lined up and ready to go. This was mainly because interest has come from all over the country, though not enough in any one spot to make that one place a gimme for buying a horse. I...