Baffert has a Classic Dream Team

BAFFERT HAS A CLASSIC DREAM TEAM As the runners line up for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on November 7, Bob Baffert may be doing a Chuck Daly imitation. …How’s that you ask?…It looks like Big Race Bob has assembled a Dream Team for this $6 million event. For those...

And then the big dog ate at the Seaside Oval

AND THEN THE BIG DOG ATE A little more than two minutes after the gates opened in the 10th race at Del Mar on August 22 the questions were answered. This edition of the Pacific Classic was supposed to tell us about Maximum Security and in fact it did. Coming into this...

Maximum Security gets a clean slate

Let’s face it…sometimes stuff happens in life. Like it or not, that’s just how it is. Usually, there are two choices…get over it or get under it. Maximum Security is one of those fantastic four-legged phenoms we call a Thoroughbred race horse....

Maximum offense to say the least

What does the brewing scandal regarding the doping of Thoroughbreds tell us?… Mix money and people and you can screw up anything. As is the case in all pro sports, cheating happens. Some folks are so desperate to win they just can’t help themselves. Of...

MAXIMUM SECURITY DESERVES ALL HE GETS

MAXIMUM SECURITY DESERVES ALL HE GETS What did the courageous win by Maximum Security in the richest Thoroughbred race ever tell us?…Well it told me he deserves every penny of the $10 million he earned for crossing the finish line first in the inaugural Saudi...