I always think of Forego on the Fourth of July weekend since I was always at Belmont for the holiday and since Forego ran every Fourth of July weekend from 1974 to 1978 in either the Brooklyn or Suburban handicaps.Here's a very short but rare piece of footage of Forego in retirement at the Kentucky Horse Park....

I'd be willing to bet two bucks that Will Farish, steady pillar of the status quo, former ambassador to Great Britan under George W Bush, and lifelong Republican won't be voting for Barack Obama this fall. Yet a visit to the Newsmeat Campaign Donor Search Engine reveals that daddy Farish and many others in racing's monied elite, who you would think would normally be supporting the Republican candid...

Maggi Moss may be a pretty good barrister but if I was Steve Asmussen, I'd be having second thoughts about the defense that Moss intends to use to fight his latest positive down in Texas.In an e-mail reply to the Lexington Herald Leader, Moss' revealed one of her probable defense arguments; I call it the "Chap Stick Conspiracy Defense" and it makes the Twinkie defense look like a stroke of genius....

I wish there was something more interesting to write about but try as I may I can;t get by the words of wisdom of Richard Dutrow. The Joey Buttafuoco of racing strikes again in this column in the Daily News. Like Buttafuoco, Dutrow is a regular guy living in his imperfect world, making the same honest mistakes that are misconstrued, again and again.Gary Contessa says he's a moron but at the moment...

I am a polytheist, if you need a winner, you make a two dollar offering to the god of chance and he/she will surely grant your wish. I have had some prayers answered now and then. I had also hoped there were racing gods with an ethos but after this season I suspect that the racing god with a conscious broke his leg and vanished, like so many others, behind that ubiquitous white screen. I was naivel...