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September 2010
August 2010
- Say goodbye to Koffee
- Hastings grapevine
- 2010 Unofficial Champion Stayers' Award -- current standings
- Stayers' Watch: summer omnibus II
- Prehistory of the "Daily Racing Form"
- Recognition
- Stayers' Watch: summer omnibus
- Under-rated and over-rated?
July 2010
June 2010
- A couple of updates
- Hitting rock bottom
- Hastings rallies for April Friesen
- Random thoughts and observations
- Father's Day at Hastings
- The "Professor" is in the house
- Stayers' Watch: the Brooklyn/Belmont double
- Stayers' Watch: Louisville Handicap
May 2010
- These guys are "Swift"
- Rappin' with Ronnie
- Book review: "Finished Lines"
- Stayers' Watch: Jim Murray Memorial Handicap
- Barroby gains highest honour
- Thirty-two years and counting...
- Other local websites
- Derby 2010 take-aways
- Stayers' Watch: Hasta La Vista Handicap
April 2010
- "Qwik pix" for the Derby
- Stayers' Watch: Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes
- Hastings' 1st annual Open House
- Local racing media "coverage"
- Stayers' Watch: San Juan Capistrano Handicap
- Zenyatta and other closers
- Looking forward to Hastings 2010
- Stayers' Watch: Tokyo City Cup
- Stayers' Watch: Pan American Stakes, Orchid Stakes
March 2010
- Stayers' Watch: San Luis Rey Handicap
- Retrospective Champion Stayers (Part 2)
- Hollywood Park cuts purses, races
- Hastings 2010 schedule released
February 2010
- Stayers' Watch: San Luis Obispo Handicap
- R.I.P. John's Call
- Hastings off-season (cont.)
- Thoughtful responses to stayers' award
- "Looking For A Leg Up"
- April 9, Oaklawn, be there!
- Retrospective Champion Stayers (Part 1)
January 2010
- Stayers' Watch: Coyote Lakes Stakes
- Hastings off-season issues
- News from elsewhere....
- Tweet, tweet, flutter, flutter...
- So I was just checking bloodhorse.com...
- Unofficial Champion Stayer 2009: Cloudy's Knight
December 2009
- Stayers' Watch: Gallant Fox Handicap
- Breeders' Cup Marathon gains graded status
- Stayers' Watch: W.L. McKnight Handicap
- More Cloudy's Knight
- Book review: "A Hoofprint On My Heart"
- Stayers' Watch: Power Lunch Stakes, Valedictory Stakes
November 2009
- Zenyatta "in", Lady's Secret "out"
- A new approach for racing in B.C.?
- Horse of the Year co-champions?
- Steve Haskin on the BC Marathon
- Stayers' Watch: Breeders' Cup Turf
- Horse of the Year -- up for grabs?
- Stayers' Watch: Breeders' Cup Marathon
- Stayers' Watch: Breeders' Cup Marathon and Turf preview
October 2009
- Stayers' Watch: Rood and Riddle Dowager Stakes
- Huitzi's woes
- Nothing but bombs
- Stayers' Watch: Sycamore Stakes
- 2009 Unofficial Champion Stayers' Award -- current standings
- Stayers' Watch: October 2009
- Twenty years gone...
September 2009
- Teide
- Oaks and Derby results
- BC Derby Day picks
- Oaks/Derby Weekend at Hastings
- Being Lucien Laurin
- Stayers' Watch: August-September 2009
- Why Rachel Alexandra is finished for the year
- Yeats in the BC Marathon?
August 2009
- Minoru
- Windfields -- end of an era
- Looking up?
- How to promote the sport of horse racing (3)
- How to promote the sport of horse racing (2)
- How to promote the sport of horse racing...?
- Stayers' Watch: Sword Dancer Invitational
- A day at Del Mar
- "Daily Racing Form" archives on-line
- Stayers' Watch: "Win And You're In"
- Where to begin...?
July 2009
- Slot machines at Hastings "harmless": city report
- Bug me not!
- Jack Kerouac's fantasy horse-racing circuit
- Hastings: Canada D'eh?
- The "Gotham Hebrew Wager"
June 2009
- Stayers' Watch: Gallant Man Handicap
- Who cares about the humans?
- Stayers' Watch: Round Table Handicap (June 13)
- Secretariat movie in the works at Disney
- Connections
- Stayers' Watch: May-June omnibus edition
May 2009
- Some Hastings notes
- Stayers' Watch: omnibus edition
- George Royal Stakes
- Altitude training?
- Derby 2009 take-aways
- Your Kentucky Derby winner: Dunkirk
April 2009
- Hastings opening weekend
- Stayers' Watch: San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap
- Dancing Allstar on the comeback trail
- Hastings ramping-up for 2009 season
- Stayers' Watch: Fort Harrod Stakes
March 2009
- Stayers' Watch: Tokyo City Cup Handicap
- Stayers' Watch: San Luis Rey Handicap, Pan American Handicap
- Open and shut
- Derby prospects (1)
- Hastings and Emerald Downs to present "Pacific Challenge"
- The upside of down
February 2009
- Stayers' Watch: San Luis Obispo Handicap
- Stayers' Watch: La Zanzara Handicap
- Some other voices...
- Dr. Howard Sartin R.I.P.
- Hastings 2009 schedule released
January 2009
- Book review: "A Fine Place to Daydream"
- Fort Erie -- not dead yet?
- Breaking news: Breeders' Cup Marathon lengthened
- Stayers' races for 2009
- Thoughts on champion stayers' pedigrees
- Unofficial Champion Stayer 2008: Champs Elysees
- Book review: "Man O' War -- A legend like lightning"
- Fort Erie to close
- Stayers' Watch: Gallant Fox Handicap
December 2008
- Stayers' Watch: La Prevoyante Handicap, the W.L. McKnight Handicap
- Hastings loose ends
- Stayers' Watch: Hollywood Turf Cup
- Book review: "Horse Racing -- The golden age of the track"
November 2008
- "The High Tech Trifecta"
- Wagering habits
- Random thoughts....
- B.C. Thoroughbred Racing Awards
- "Timeline twins"
- R.I.P. Regal Intention
- Marketing 101
- End of the year
- Interview with Ross McLeod
- Stayers' Watch: Long Island Handicap
October 2008
- Ascot Graduation
- [Admin] One year
- Stayers' Watch: Breeders' Cup Marathon, Breeders' Cup Turf
- Stayers' Watch: Sycamore Stakes, Dowager Stakes
- Chiaroscuro at Hastings
- Thanksgiving weekend review
- Thanksgiving weekend races at Hastings
- Stayers' Watch: Pattison Canadian International
- Jack and Sadie Diamond Futurities
- Breeders' Cup schedule released
- Other voices
September 2008
- Evening Re-Attire-d
- Stayers' Watch: Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational
- "The Georgia Straight" discovers The Track
- BC Derby Day
- BC Derby
- I had a dream....
- Stayers' Watch: Kentucky Cup Turf
- El Sinaloense sticking around
- Dancing Allstar
- Stayers' Watch: Northern Dancer Turf Stakes, Turfway Park Fall Championship Stakes
- Stayers' Watch: Cape Henlopen Stakes
- Hastings -- Labour Day weekend
August 2008
- [Admin] Just a couple of things....
- El Sinaloense again
- Stayers' Watch: Kelso Stakes
- Stayers' Watch: Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes
- News from Hastings
- Yeats
- One to watch: El Sinaloense
- BC Cup Day
July 2008
- Stayers Watch: Cougar II Handicap
- Stayers' Watch: Pacific Customs Brokers Marathon Series
- "35 years later..."
- Stayers' Watch: Greenwood Cup
- The "Unofficial Champion Stayer Award"
- Stayers' Watch: Sunset Breeders' Cup Handicap
- Dancing Allstar to "Summit of Speed"
- "Curlin Forever"?
- Stayers' Watch: Stars and Stripes Handicap
- Canada Day at Hastings
June 2008
- A few new links
- Changing demographics at Hastings?
- "Win and You're In" expanded for Dirt Marathon
- Hubris...
- Stayers' Watch: Round Table Handicap
- Hastings notes
- Stayers' Watch: omnibus edition
- [Admin] Back after a hiatus
May 2008
- The Preakness
- How to keep them running
- A Commissioner of Racing?
- New B.C. racing initiative
- Stayers' Watch: Jim Murray Memorial Handicap
- More Derby fall-out
- Stayers' Watch: Hasta La Vista Handicap
- Meanwhile, back at Hastings...
- Animal cruelty...?
- More about the Derby
- The Derby
April 2008
- Opening day at Hastings
- Stayers' Watch: Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes
- Stayers' Watch: Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes
- Hastings anticipation
- Derby fever?
- Stayers' Watch: San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap
- Stayers' Watch: Fort Harrod Stakes
- "Your price, madam?"
- Training camp at Hastings
- Stayers' Watch: Pan American Handicap
- "The First Saturday in May"
- Odds'n'sods...
March 2008
- Stayers' Watch: Orchid Handicap
- Stayers' Watch: Tokyo City Handicap
- The "Forego Triple"
- Stayers' Watch: San Luis Rey Handicap
- Woo-hoo!
- B.C. Derby winner tries California grass
- Gutierrez to return to Hastings
- "Outfront on the Backstretch"
- Breeders' Cup 2008 (3): Scheduling solution?
- Breeders' Cup 2008 (2): Marathon lost in the shuffle?
- Breeders' Cup 2008 (1): "Ladies' Day"
February 2008
- Another stayer honoured
- Stayers' Watch: San Luis Obispo Handicap
- Stayers' races for 2008
- Pedro Alvarado -- jockey or soap opera?
- Kelso gets his due
- Monashee retires (again)
- Too much "Monkey" business
- Speaking of Cañonero II...
- ¡Viva Tomcito! - or, Is 2008 the new 1971?
- Triple Crown nominations - is the glass half-empty or half-full?
- "Battle of Hastings" resumes again
January 2008
- Santa Anita: what a mess
- Curlin to return in 2008
- Monashee goes out a winner
- Curlin: "You can't make this stuff up"
- Book review: "The Fireside Book of Horse Racing"
- New stayers' race announced at Keeneland
- Hastings Park announces 2008 stakes schedule
- More stayers' races at Churchill Downs and Keeneland?
December 2007
- Book review: "The Horse God Built"
- Horse-racing history in cigarette cards
- Breeders Cup announces new stayers' race for 2008
- New Alberta racetrack will challenge Hastings
November 2007
- Mid-Atlantic states ban steroids
- My daughter's introduction to racing
- Slots open at Hastings
- Damascus vs. Dr. Fager
- "The best horse you've never heard of"
- 1957 Preakness Stakes
- The year at Hastings
- Book review: "The Seabiscuit Story"
- Breeders' Cup take-aways (2)
