Next weekend is Mother's Day but last Saturday was "Mudders" day as nineteen thorobreds had to gallop ten furlongs on a sloppy track in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. While I did not pick the winner "ORB" I was pleased that the owner - the Phipps family - after six generations as a prominent breeding and racing family - finally won the Run for the Roses. The Phipps family is one of the great racing stables who always contested with the Vanderbilts and the Whitneys and were a fixture at Saratoga in August. While not the same as the curse of the Bambino, the Phipps did suffer several disappointments over the years viz.: the S&S regrets i.e. they sold SEABISCUIT before he became famous and they lost SECRETARIAT on the toss of a coin before he was foaled. So it was poetic justice that this prominent stable would finally get their day in the winner's circle on the first Saturday in May.
tjs
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