Posted by Zach Bigalke on August 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I was a little too busy observing the Green Sports Alliance Summit last week to go back and watch a replay… but sitting down today I decided to flip through some old horse races courtesy of the on-demand section from Versus on my cable box.
There was a period early in the new millennium when the sport of horse racing came agonizingly close again, and again, and then again once more to realizing the long-sought dream of a Triple Crown winner.... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on June 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Like the debaucherous prognosticating procrastinator that I am, I’ve been working too much and writing too little lately. Fifty-plus hours a week at hard labor in a kitchen with but one day a week off work — and that day spent in the dentist’s chair, no less — will keep a guy from getting motivated to take his fingers over the keyboard for any meaningful discourse on the events of the day. I’ve been abject in my duties,... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on May 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The field is set, post positions are out and we’re just two days away from the 136th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore. The Kentucky Derby saw Animal Kingdom blow past the favorites under jockey John Velazquez to give trainer Graham Motion his first Derby winner in a long career in the sport. The Preakness, hosted by the second oldest race course in the country, is that middle jewel that has stumbled many a potential Triple Crown winner.... Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on May 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The field is set, post positions are out and we’re just two days away from the 137th Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. It’s been more than six years since the good Dr. Gonzo kicked the bucket, but you’ve got to think he would love a field as decadent and depraved as the twenty horses that will be lining up on Saturday for an antiquated event that has been running since the era of Reconstruction following the Civil War. Read More
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Posted by Zach Bigalke on September 16, 2010 · 6 Comments
What makes us enjoy what we enjoy; how do our spectating proclivities develop, and why do we take interest in some events and not in others? It’s one of those things that I keep rolling over again and again in my brain as I find myself overwhelmed at times with the sheer number of events that seem to captivate me and pull my focus in every possible direction. We’re at the intersection of summer and winter, the traditional autumn... Read More
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