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Paddock Pals and Other Old Friends Paddock Pals and Other Old Friends By Frank Angst Believe me, I usually find reasons to visit the farm and its impressive roster of horses. So I found a bounce in my step when a recent winter Friday presented a great opportunity for a visit and to catch up on some of the stories going on at Old Friends with the Thoroughbred retirement farm’s founder Michael Blowen. The day already was a bit of a first as I’d never been to the farm with snow on the ground. Fortunately temperatures had improved to the level of being tolerable, allowing for an amazing sett...

For most of us the opportunity to land a championship of any variety comes through a very small window. For a precious few that play at the highest level, brilliance and consistency put them in a position to excel year after year. We were reminded of this over the weekend that culminated with Super Bowl Sunday, an American holiday of football, spectacle, and indulgence. It’s serious business on the gridiron, however, and no one has been more successful than Tom Brady who, as quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, made his 10th appearance in a Super Bowl Feb. 8. The Bucs’ 31-9 win over t...

MARYLAND HORSES IN NY STATE OF MIND Hello Hot Rod, with Trevor McCarthy up, won the Jimmy Winkfield. Photo by Chelsea Durand/NYRA. Frank Vespe February 1, 2021 A trio of Maryland-based horses are eyeing Aqueduct stakes in the coming weeks – and two others recently won stakes there. Hello Hot Rod, a three-year-old, Maryland-bred Mosler colt, fought gamely to win Sunday’s seven-furlong Jimmy Winkfield Stakes by a head. Hello Hot Rod led throughout and had just enough to hold off the bid of Return the Ring. It was Hello Hot Rod’s third consecutive win and first in stakes company. He’s tr...

Medina Spirit Emerges With Narrow Victory In Robert B. Lewis Stakes Sponsored by: Medina Spirit and jockey Abel Cedillo (right) hold off Roman Centurian (left), and Hot Rod Charlie to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes In a gutty gate to wire performance, Medina Spirit fought off all challengers to take Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes by a neck and thus stamped himself a top tier Derby hopeful for Bob Baffert.  Owned by Zedan Racing Stables, Inc. and ridden by Abel Cedillo, Medina Spirit got 1 1/16 miles in 1:46.26 over a Santa Anita main track listed as “good” ...

Medina Spirit all heart in Robert B. Lewis Jan 31, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com After expending energy to set a strong pace on a deep, demanding track at Santa Anita, Medina Spirit had a right to succumb in Saturday’s $100,500 Robert B. Lewis S. (G3). Instead, the Bob Baffert trainee was lion-hearted as he fended off challenges from Roman Centurian and Hot Rod Charlie in a three-way thriller.  Medina Spirit was coming off a second in the Sham (G3) to stablemate Life Is Good, the early Kentucky Derby (G1) favorite. That made Medina Spirit the even-money choice here, despite the pres...