Memorial Weekend
2026 🇺🇸 🫡
This is such a poignant and respectful remembrance for all 9,387 US soldiers who paid the ultimate price for our freedom on D-Day in Normandy.
French caretakers’ tradition of taking sand from Omaha Beach and scrubbing it into the letters of the tombstones makes the names more visible and gives them a golden appearance.
@EJXD2@PreaknessStakes I am not convinced they are that good of handicappers. I would like to be behind the scene and see these bets really do come in before the gates open.
@SheaMizer@garypaljr I didn’t say no claiming. Two solutions are adjusting the claiming price relative to the purse, and having lower level handicap races like other parts of the world. Claiming levels have changed very little in the last 20 years, yet the cost of horses and upkeep have gone up a lot
@SheaMizer@garypaljr How long have you owned horses? We have owned since 1992. The claiming is in a death spiral reducing the crop sizes. Claimers think it’s great, until it isn’t. It’s like socialism, it works great, until it doesn’t.
@garypaljr@SheaMizer This is lowering the long term supply. Breeder or small owner puts years into a horse & if they aren’t competitive at a certain level, they must run for a tag less than they are worth to win, hence they get claimed. Claimers love it until the system collapses in the future.
@SheaMizer I think you are being wise or you wouldn’t lead with it. It’s like saying, “I don’t want to be rude”. In your theory it’s good for the game, then if every horse gets claimed in every race, that is better yet. Clearly not true. Yes, claiming needs to happen.
@UlwellingRacing@_Keeneland_@ChurchillDowns@TheNYRA@NYRABets@TwinSpires And crack down on where the real money comes from. It most likely comes from owners that she is claiming for, but she is listed as the claiming owner which is most likely not true. Let’s see who the owners are when they run outside KY.
Fanduel CEO Amy Howe, who recently pulled the plug on the company’s horse racing network, has been fired. Can we please revisit that decision to end FanDuel Racing and put 150-plus people out of work? https://t.co/yYZ9LODwbB