Generally, I refrain from posting about horse racing fatalities - they're downright unfunny. However, yesterday afternoon at Lone Star Park, a horse ended up in the infield lake. Gary West posted a brief in this morning's Star-Telegram,Jockey Bryan McNeil was taken to a local hospital and Mr. Smee ended up in one of the infield lakes after Saturday's final race ... When the field of older horses en...

While many of my horse racing brethren have been heralding the races at Belmont and Delaware this past weekend, I find that it is imperative to thunder recognition to Texas, as Saturday was Stars of Texas Day - a day filled with quality racing. Numerous stakes races. Tremendous fields. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people. I should also mention that it was Dollar Day.The dollar was a pop...

The 4th of July holiday had our family and friends lounging poolside, imbibing cold beverages, sharing anecdotes, jokes, recipes, dreams and visions, names of good mechanics, critiques of various B movies, and so forth. After a beer (or two, maybe three … perhaps more), it was easy to throw out a few glib remarks, "Oh, honey, it's completely understandable that you don't know how to operate the c...

Recently, a couple of members of the TBA have received fame and fortune and accolades as well a national recognition for their contribution in disseminating important and useful information from reputable sources, i.e., not the beerman. Dana's prose and questions was enough for NTRA President and CEO, Alex Waldrop, to put down his Starbucks Doubleshot® on Ice Beverage and pen a response to her in...

Last Sunday, my husband announced that he had a very big project that required his undivided attention – a marketing presentation, or building a better egg-beater, or something like that – and would I be so kind as to make sure that he would be uninterrupted for a few hours (read: get the kids out of the house).So, I took my daughters to the track.It's not difficult to persuade my kids to spend...