The anticipated match between Big Brown, Curlin and Casino Drive will not happen. Big Brown 'grabbed a quarter' today, an injury that while not life threatening means he is out for a long recovery. He has been retired. With extensive tissue damage he wasn't initially lame but as he was cooled off became increasingly sore and uncomfortable. His retirement was announced and he will go to Three Chimneys in Kentucky. He'll stand along the likes of Point Given, Rahy, Smarty Jones and Dynaformer.
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13 October 2008
The dominance we’ve witnessed in the past year has now been foiled by injury. Apparently the lucrative nature of the world of sports was shown when a simple year of great performances equaled a big time pay day for this athlete, but now all is lost simply because of an injury. Yes, his injury may have a profound effect on others but let’s not loose focus on the athlete. He’s entertained us, and given us many a chance to lose ourselves in the world of competition. I just wanted to take this short time to write a miniscule blog recognizing the loss of a stud.
Posted by Lowell H. Slagle | No comments yet
11 October 2008
Most around horse racing have some idea who Citation and Cigar are. The 'ladies' of the sport are often overlooked somewhat. Cigar was incredibly close to breaking the all time consecutive races but stood with Citation at 16. The easy running, powerful Cigar left many good horses in his wake, unable to touch him. Cigar's determination carried him to victory on his own and swept to the front easily. Cigar hald the record for money earning and consecutive wins for many years. On September 27, Curlin passed Cigar's money record. Cigar showed time and time again the heart of a fighter. Cigar was one of four horses - Citation, Ferdinand and Hallowed Dreams, that shared the record of 16 consecutive wins.
Posted by Jan Hoadley | No comments yet
10 October 2008
There's no secret betting is a part of visiting the track. For many the excitement isn't in cashing a ticket - it's in watching a blanket finish or the jaw-dropping performance of a young horse so precocious in speed that the world is at their feet. And, while many people see racing on Kentucky Derby day, and many on Breeders Cup day there is more than that too.
Posted by Jan Hoadley | No comments yet
6 October 2008
So I normally title my Monday blog: Monday Mourning due to being hungover from a full day of drinking and watching sports, hence the “mourning” because I have to get up, go to work, puke in the bathroom, and subsequently fall asleep in all of my meetings and get absolutely no work done. But today is different, mainly due to the fact that CBS’s and Fox’s regional coverage of NFL games in my area was HORRIBLE. Games that had a spread of +11 with no fantasy implications at all were being aired, so I went and watched polo (you know, the sport where guys on horses trot around and whack a ball with mallets). I had never been to a polo game before but we decided to go due to the possibility of attractive females (there are always beautiful women at horse events). We mingled with a few and made up some elaborate lies that we were just checking out the competition and had our horses stabled a few miles away. We were obviously out of place, with our cheers of “nice pass man!” and “shoooooot it!” but we wholeheartedly plan on attending it every Sunday for the rest of the season – pending what NFL games are on of course.
Posted by Bob Lalor | No comments yet
10 September 2008
You may have noticed the small icons at the bottom of your blog posts linking to MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Stumble Upon and other social media websites. These icons allow you to quickly link your blog post to these sites. You should be using these links a lot. Submitting to social media sites is free and easy and can really increase the traffic to your blog. Consistently using them is the easiest way to build a following and increase your traffic.
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16 August 2008
We've added some additional functionality to our " Headline Widget" so that our bloggers can now promote their blog posts through the widget. Simply go the "Headline Widget" page, type in your username in the appropriate blank, and copy the HTML to any webpages (i.e. your MySpace profile page or your personal blog) where you want your blog posts to appear.
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14 August 2008
A big thanks to everyone who participated in the "Inbound Link Contest". We have a winner! A big congratulations go out to Marija. Thank you for all your hard work on this. While we had a lot of people participate, Marija was able to win with only 4 links! So it wouldn't have taken a lot to win this contest! We'll be having another contest soon so stay tuned.
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17 July 2008
To try and motivate our bloggers to get inbound links we're going to have a contest to see which blogger can get the most inbound links to their blog. The contest begins now and ends July 31st, 2008. To be entered in to the contest all you have to do is go out and get as many websites to link to your blog as you can and at the end of the month send us an email listing all those links. All links must be active from August 1st through August 7th when we'll be judging the entries - a winner will be announced on August 7th. All entry emails must be received by Midnight on July 31st, 2008. You can email them to sportsfan@nbabasketballonline.com
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16 July 2008
Make each blog post as interesting as possible. This may sound like common sense, but always keep it in mind. The more interesting your blog is the more people will read it. Quality is much more important than quantity. No one will read through a hundred blog posts (or even 10) to find one interesting one. But if each post is interesting people will be coming back week after week to read what you have to say.
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