Posts from November 2007
Desperately Seeking Carol
Chris of Female on the Horse & Carol Cedeno at Monmouth Park (Chris Forbes)
As someone who watches their traffic regularly, I had been noticing that jock apprentice Carol Cedeno has been the most frequent search term used to arrive at GbG by way of Google.
How frequent? In the past month I’ve had 34 visits that resulted from searches for the young Miss Cedeno with the next most regular search term, Chantal Sutherland, totaling 5 visits (Saratoga Russell also clocks in with 5). And it’s not like it’s her mother searching over and over again, they’re from all over the place.
Those yearning for more info the popular apprentice lucked out this week when Bloodhorse published an article on her.
Speaking of female jockeys, while trying to scare up a picture for this post I stumbled across the Female on the Horse site. The author of the site (pictured above) works track security and has been compiling a giant archive of interviews of female jockeys!
Also check out his rather impressive photo galleries where his M.O, as demonstrated above, is to get them to pose with him giving the thumbs up.
It sort of reminds me Star Struck by Gary Boas, an astonishing archive of photos of the author with celebrities… also worth checking out as an interesting artifact of fandom & period piece (the photos were taken from the mid-sixties to 1980).
Posted by dana on Nov 30 2007
Filed Under: Carol Cedeno, Saratoga Russell, 2007, Chantal Sutherland, Fans, Racing
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Landaluce and an Earthquake
I was just reading today’s Crist Blog post via RSS. I didn’t make it any further than the Landaluce part as I immediately went over to You Tube to see if there were any race replays (not realizing that the lone race replay was in his post).
I only knew of Landaluce because of the Landaluce Stakes so finding out her story was incredible! The subject came up as it was the 25th anniversary of her passing yesterday, the 28th. What a talent. Definitely go check it out if don’t know the story, and if you do, here is the lone race replay currently on You Tube.
While I was at You Tube I noticed a video entitled Hollywood Park Earthquake. It didn’t look to me like the winning horse’s name was Earthquake so I wondered if it really could a race run during an earthquake. When I was visiting Cali in the spring and went to Hollywood Park I wondered what happened if an earthquake occurred during a race…
The call is hilarious. It looks like it really doesn’t matter too much to the horses as long as the earth isn’t opening up on the track. I have to also commend them on steady camera work!
Posted by dana on Nov 29 2007
Filed Under: Legend, Hollywood Park, Race Replay
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Rafael Bejarano & Precious Kitten winning the Matriarch at Hollywood Park (Charles Pravata)
I was channeling The Church Lady when I typed that headline.
Posted by dana on Nov 29 2007
Filed Under: Charles Pravata, Hollywood Park, Rafael Bejarano, Racing
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You all read other TBA blogs, right? Download free past performances from the TBA homepage? Yes, I thought so.
Well in that case, you should click on over the TBA homepage and take our series of quick, painless surveys that will help us to help you (well, really help you help horses by getting us more ad money that we can then donate to Old Friends).
Posted by dana on Nov 29 2007
Filed Under: TBA, You Can Help, 2007
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Daaher & Midnight Lute in the Cigar Mile (Sarah K. Andrew)
A few days after the Cigar Mile I remembered seeing the headline “Midnite Lute scares away most Cigar Mile Nominees” prior to the race.
It’s too bad they didn’t show up, there were 2 1/2 lengths in between Daaher and Midnight Lute that any number of horses could have fit in. I’d like to think that if I were an owner (something I’d really like to be someday), that I wouldn’t shy away from competition… look at well at worked out for Daaher’s connections.
Posted by dana on Nov 28 2007
Filed Under: Sportsmanship, Midnight Lute, 2007, Let Horses Race, Racing
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