Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy eating day, everyone. I heard that most people who celebrate the day will consume about 5000 calories.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WWABBIT!!!

I consider today the day you are now older than me................ Hope yesterday was a wonderful day for you!!! Now we begin the process of me catching up again. Hope you had cake and icecream to celebrate. Love from the Krew!!!

ZENYATTA!!

I know I wasn't the only one watching at home who was on my feet when Zenyatte came down the stretch. If she doesn't get Horse of the Year, all the voters should be investigated. There is no way Rachel Alexandra, good as she is, deserves it more than Zenyatta. RA's connections have avoided every opportunity they had to run against Zenyatta, and that says it all for me. She doesn't like the surface? Too bad. She's only had eight weeks off? wtf? She's 8 for 8 and has beaten the boys three times this year? Great, fantastic, but not good enough. Zenyatta's people took a chance yesterday, risking her perfect record to give her the chance to prove she really is all that she seems. She would have won the Distaff without question. They put her in the Classic, a race at a distance she had never run, against a loaded international field of colts and stallions she had never run against (and that RA will probably never meet). Despite some drama at the start, she mowed them down. She beat Gio Ponti, a colt who has been getting some HotY support. If that isn't Horse of the Year material, I don't know what is.

With Zenyatta out of the race, her stablemate Life Is Sweet got her chance to shine, and she won the Distaff. The little filly She Be Wild, who's owners kept her when they were unable to sell her for $19,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales spring 2-year-old in training sale, won the Juvenile Fillies and may end up as the 2-year-old Filly of the Year.

Goldikova scored her second victory against the boys in the BC Mile. Her trainer, Freddy Head, won this same race two years in a row as a jockey on Miesque, a filly who was the first to win the same race in consecutive years in the BC. I don't usually pick favorites to win, but I had the exacta in this race, with Courageous Cat as my place horse.

It was a good year at the Breeder's Cup. No horses were injured, discounting Quality Road cutting himself a bit at the gate for the Classic and being withdrawn. The Sprint had a four-way photo finish, with 25-1 shot Dancing in Silks getting the win. Dancing in Silks was one of three geldings to win a big race. Favorite California Flag won the $1 million Turf Sprint, and longshot Furthest Land won the $1 million Dirt Mile a year after being claimed for $35,000 at Belmont Park. Never underestimate the eye of a handicapper when he decides to put his money down to actually buy a horse!

C'est l'homme!!

Never let it be said that lack of a corkscrew got between a man and his bottle of wine.