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- L.M. 5-20-2007 3:16 am

Great piece!
- Belle Barth (guest) 5-20-2007 5:26 am


Thanks! I've been so busy doing home repairs that I nearly missed the Preakness this afternoon. Street Sense did his movie cliché run behind, but lost in a photo finish to Curlin.

Way more fun listening to the crazy sweet Louisiana accents from the first and second place jockeys.
- L.M. 5-20-2007 5:46 am


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Curlin's time for the preakness is 1:53.40. It's the same record time as Louis Quatorze in 1996 and Tank's Prospect in 1985. (the track timer broke right before the race for Secretariat's Preakness)

What the sponsors of the triple crown races don't want you to see was Mending Fences being
euthanized on the track in another race at Pimlico.
(don't worry the link isn't to a video of a horsey snuff film)

- L.M. 5-20-2007 6:09 am


1973 Preakness


2006 Preakness


1964 Preakness


2004 Preakness


If Smarty Jones won this race Sandra R. would not die of cancer.

Everything hangs on such thin threads.

- L.M. 5-20-2007 6:54 am


That gif is really grand. Nice one Lorna! Hooray for Smarty Jones.

(SM via joester)
- joester 5-20-2007 9:56 pm


muybridge
- bill 5-20-2007 10:10 pm


Totally impossible to make without thinking of Muybridge, but fortunately, I didn't need to be as exacting about the gate.

Sally, perhaps I should bet with money instead of someone else's life and death. (less anxiety for my friends)
- L.M. 5-20-2007 10:29 pm


yours is great and that race yesterday was terrific.
- bill 5-20-2007 10:41 pm


   Criminal Type     Easy Goer     General Assembly     Buckfinder     Conquistador Cielo     Awesome Again 


Thanks bill, I have the TV on to Live Woodbine (local), Fort Erie, and Belmont Park races right now:

Sunday wallpaper, it's very important if you hate the sun.

- L.M. 5-20-2007 11:21 pm


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George Stubbs

seymour
James Seymour

clarke
Albert Clark

Basil
Basil Nightingale

culpeper
Allan Culpeper

marshal
Ben Marshall

This is how I get nothing done in a day and yet consider myself busy.

- L.M. 5-21-2007 12:36 am


the plains of kildare

(stu-ball)
- bill 5-21-2007 1:14 am





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