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issue no. 5

On to the PreaknessRiding Super Saver, Calvin Borel triumphs in the Derby – again

eventing gives retired

thoroughbreds second chance

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Pink Village hosted by Lite 101.9 FM and Mix 106.5 with “show us your pink” prizes

Free* souvenir poster showcasing the $50,000 Pimlico Jockey Challenge participants *to the first 3,500 Pimlico fans

Celebrity Jockey Autograph Session featuring the Challenge and Legend riders (11:00-11:30am, first-floor grandstand trackside)

Daily Racing Form Handicapping Seminar with Andrew Beyer, Jay Privman, and other racing experts (11:30am-12:00pm)

Book Signing with Lynda Sasscer-Hill, author of the murder mystery, Full Mortality

2nd annual

$50,000 Pimlico Jockey ChallengeEight of the nation’s top jockeys compete in Pimlico’s 2nd annual Jockey Challenge. The riders square off in four Challenge races, with points awarded based upon their finish. The winner receives the top prize of $14,000 and bragging rights as the Jockey Challenge Champion. Riders scheduled to participate are Javier Castellano, Kent Desormeaux, Ramon Dominguez, Garrett Gomez, Julien Leparoux, Anna Napravnik, Jeremy Rose, and John Velazquez.As a thank you to these athletes, Pimlico is making a $5,000 contribution to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

Legends for the Cure RaceWitness history in the making as eight retired, female jockeys return to the saddle and break from the gate in the first-ever parimutuel race for former, professional, female riders. Participating legends include Patricia J. Cooksey, Gwen Jocson, Andrea Seefeldt Knight, Barbara Jo Rubin, Jennifer Rowland Small, Mary Russ Tortora, Mary Wiley Wagner and Cheryl White. Support Susan G. Komen for the Cure by making a donation in your favorite rider’s name.

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Tickets to the exclusive Turfside Terrace are $100 each for Black-Eyed Susan Day, with $10 of each ticket sold donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.* Turf-side Terrace tickets offer an unparalleled view of the races from tip-up seats under a canopy, and include an all-American picnic buffet with open beer, wine, soda and bottled water.

*for an all-sources minimum guaranteed donation of $100,000

Pink Village hosted by Lite 101.9 FM and Mix 106.5 with “show us your pink” prizes

Free* souvenir poster showcasing the $50,000 Pimlico Jockey Challenge participants *to the first 3,500 Pimlico fans

Celebrity Jockey Autograph Session featuring the Challenge and Legend riders (11:00-11:30am, first-floor grandstand trackside)

Daily Racing Form Handicapping Seminar with Andrew Beyer, Jay Privman, and other racing experts (11:30am-12:00pm)

Book Signing with Lynda Sasscer-Hill, author of the murder mystery, Full Mortality

2nd annual

$50,000 Pimlico Jockey ChallengeEight of the nation’s top jockeys compete in Pimlico’s 2nd annual Jockey Challenge. The riders square off in four Challenge races, with points awarded based upon their finish. The winner receives the top prize of $14,000 and bragging rights as the Jockey Challenge Champion. Riders scheduled to participate are Javier Castellano, Kent Desormeaux, Ramon Dominguez, Garrett Gomez, Julien Leparoux, Anna Napravnik, Jeremy Rose, and John Velazquez.As a thank you to these athletes, Pimlico is making a $5,000 contribution to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

Legends for the Cure RaceWitness history in the making as eight retired, female jockeys return to the saddle and break from the gate in the first-ever parimutuel race for former, professional, female riders. Participating legends include Patricia J. Cooksey, Gwen Jocson, Andrea Seefeldt Knight, Barbara Jo Rubin, Jennifer Rowland Small, Mary Russ Tortora, Mary Wiley Wagner and Cheryl White. Support Susan G. Komen for the Cure by making a donation in your favorite rider’s name.

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Contents

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COVER STORY

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other Features

May 3, 2010Issue No. 5

On The COveR: An emotional Calvin Borel raises his arm in celebration as he crosses the finish line first aboard Super Saver at the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby. PhOTO: SCOTT SeRiO

8 Super Derby Win Calvin Borel makes it three out of four by riding Super Saver to victory in the 136th Kentucky Derby. By ryan Patterson

16 Derby Scene A pictorial of the sights at the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby.

22 2010 Barnstable Brown gala The twins put on another unforgettable bash.

32 The gate man When the horses are in the Preakness gates, Bruce Wagner will be the man pushing the start button. By scott serio

14 graded Stakes Races

36 Ted the Barber For a good haircut and the latest gossip, visit Pimlico’s very own barbershop.

38 Baltimore’s Best While Baltimore is known for its seafood, that’s just the beginning of the good eating in this town.

44 Jumping at the Chance Some retired thoroughbreds find a second career in eventing. By cynthia Grisolia

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50 Photographic memories Browsing through old family snapshots of a childhood spent with champions. By aManda haskin

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Calvin Borel and Super Saver make their way to the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs following their Derby victory.

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Super Saver captured the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby, ending a streak of disappointments for trainer Todd Pletcher and giving jockey Calvin Borel

his third victory in the Run for the Roses in four years. The bay son of sire Maria’s Mon complet-ed the 1¼ miles in 2:04.45 over a sealed sloppy track. The favored Lookin at Lucky virtually lost all chance after being roughed up going into the first turn.

Borel had his colt in the sixth position for most of the race before making a big move at the top of the stretch and securing the win by 2½ lengths over the Nick Zito-trained Ice Box. The trip for Ice Box was less than stellar. “The horse didn’t break that good and had to check a little at the break,” said jockey Jose Lezcano. “At the half-mile pole, he started running, but I didn’t want to go wide in a 20-horse field. I had to check at the quarter-pole, but he came again and made a big run.”

The third-place finisher, Paddy O’Prado, encountered trouble, according to his three-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey, Kent Desormeaux. “I got stopped cold at the quarter-pole,” he said. “If I got through, I would have won. He stumbled real bad here at the sixteenth-pole. He must have stepped in a hole. My horse, he ran his heart out. He just didn’t have the luck.”

It was quite clear that Garrett Gomez’s Lookin At Lucky had more trouble than any of his foes.

UNSTOPPABLEWith Calvin Borel aboard, Super Savermakes it look inevitable

By Ryan Patterson

Calvin Borel worked Super Saver from sixth to first on yet another trademark brilliant ride at Churchill Downs.


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“There are a bunch of variables: the one post, the mud, he’s never had this much stuff in his face, a mile and a quarter. There’s all kinds of stuff,” said Gomez. There were too many things going on today. I got bumped two or three times – that’s what I worried about going in. He wasn’t real willing to help me the first sixteenth of mile and take some of it. After the first one, he wasn’t willing to take too much.”

Masterful rideWhile some of the runners in the Der-

by had trouble, Super Saver had none at all. Borel delivered another masterful ride over his Churchill Downs track. (It’s fair to say that Churchill Downs is his track, because Borel completely dominates the place. Never has a jockey been as good at a single track as Borel is at Churchill Downs.)

“I had him where I wanted,” he said. “I got him off the pace and he relaxed good. I learned a lot the last time I rode him [in the Arkansas Derby]. The first time I rode him, I won on the lead, but in the last race, I took him back and learned a lot about him.”

After Super Saver crossed the fin-ish line, Borel raised three fingers to the sky, signifying his three triumphs on the first Saturday in May. The Cajun jockey won his first Run for the Roses in

2007 with Street Sense. He then won on Mine That Bird in 2009, and now comes Super Saver. He is the only jockey in the history of the race to win three times in four years. He’s two wins behind Bill Hartack and Eddie Arcaro, who share the record for most wins at five.

If Borel was overjoyed to win the race, trainer Todd Pletcher probably felt what the jockey was feeling, times a hundred. He could be seen pumping

his fist, a big smile on his face, after Su-per Saver got the job done.

“It’s a joy!” gushed Pletcher. “People said we had one with our name written on it. I didn’t take anything for grant-ed. It feels awfully good.” The Eclipse Award-winning trainer had zero win-ners from 24 starters in the Derby before Super Saver vindicated him. His best finish before this year came with Invis-ible Ink, who was second in 2001; and

Bluegrass Cat, who was sec-ond at odds of 30-1 in 2006. His record before Super Sav-er’s win was a bit deceiving. Rarely, if ever, did any of his previous 24 starters have a “real” chance to win. They were mostly long shots.

Super Saver’s win gave the late Maria’s Mon his sec-ond Kentucky Derby winner. (He also produced 2001 win-ner Monarchos, who owns the second-fastest winning time in the race at 1:59.97.) The gray/roan sire was euth-anized in 2007 at age 14 after failing to recover from organ dysfunction. His other prog-eny include Grade 1 winners Wait A While and Monba.The field passes the stands for the first time in Derby 136, with Conveyance and Sidney’s Candy in the lead.

The winning connections for WinStar Farm celebrate on the podium in the Winner’s Circle after Super Saver won the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby.


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Calvin’s wife, Lisa, plants a celebratory kiss on the winning jockey while holding up three fingers to signify his third Derby victory in four tries.

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Triple Crown ambitionsAs many could have predicted, Su-

per Saver will make his next start in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes. The status of runner-up Ice Box is unknown at the moment. Trainer Zito said he will pon-der the Preakness, but he may opt to wait for the Belmont Stakes, five weeks after the Run for the Roses. The trainer won the Belmont Stakes in 2004 with Birdstone and again in 2008 with Da’ Tara. His other colt, Jackson Bend, is also under consideration for the Preak-ness. D. Wayne Lukas’ Dublin is likely headed to the Preakness as well. Deci-sions have yet to be made for Paddy O’Prado, Lookin At Lucky, Make Music For Me and Mission Impazible. Trainer John Sadler indicated that Grade 3 Der-by Trial winner Hurricane Ike is head-ed to the Preakness. Awesome Act will be moved to the barn of trainer Steve Asmussen.

It’s quite possible that Super Saver won the Kentucky Derby from a com-bination of a speed meltdown, wet track, and having the masterful Calvin Borel on his back. It’s also possible that he’s improving and right now is just that good. Whatever the cause, when asked about logging his third win in four years, Borel replied, “It never gets old.”

Borel says he believes the colt will win the Triple Crown. (He made a simi-lar promise last year, guaranteeing that Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird would take the Belmont. The geld-ing finished third behind Dunkirk and the winner, Summer Bird.) But whether or not those Triple Crown ambitions are realized, the trio of Super Saver, Calvin Borel and Todd Pletcher have already cemented their names in the history of thoroughbred racing and its most im-portant race. h

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Amid threats the weather might deliver a constant deluge and flash flooding, at least one fan opted for the safety of a life vest over a top hat or seersucker suit. But the weather, while certainly wet, was bookended by sun all day on Oaks Day

and a surprising cameo appearance by the sun at post time for Derby 136.

In fact, by post time for each of the big races the big hats, the bold hats, the wide hats were all out. There were blooms, plumes, bows and bands. There were fascinators and fedoras. There was no doubt this was a party for the 250,000 fans who attended the two days of racing at Churchill Downs and the goal of dressing to the nines was achieved.

And for those who were not in it for fine fashion, finding a Derby theme seemed to be the mission. The “rose hat” guy, a Colonel Sanders look-a-like, Triple Crown wannabe jockeys, the lego-horse guy, the Wise Guys of the 40s and just about any hat with a horse that would be called ridiculous on any other day were all scattered throughout the crowd.

To assuage worries that maybe Derby 136 was more hype, more PR than party, all you need do is look to the three British visitors Stride ran into in the paddock. They were here for the Derby, but they have attend-ed Aintree, Epsom and Ascot. Asked to sum up their Derby experience, they replied unanimously: “It’s Brilliant!”

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The 2010 Barnstable Brown Gala was a stargazer’s dream, whether you were an invited guest or

just an enthusiastic spectator. Cheers would erupt every ten

minutes or so as an announcer would inform the crowd, “The Jacksons – Tito, Marlon and Jackie – have arrived,” and the noise would go flat off the charts when any University of Ken-tucky sports personality was in-troduced.

Actress Marisa Miller (facing page) and Marlon, Jackie and Tito Jackson (right) on the red carpet and Barnstable Brown.

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Potential NBA No. 1 draft choice and recent UK grad John Wall made his ap-pearance on the red carpet, only to ven-ture over to the raucous skirmish line of fans for a round of high-fives and auto-graphs. For many who came prepared with UK paraphernalia, stars like Diane Lane, Rebecca Romjin and the Jacksons were an afterthought. They came for UK’s Wall, Patrick Patterson and coach John Calipari.

But make no mistake: the star power was there. Ashley Simpson and Pete Wentz attended, as did Lost’s Terry O’Quinn, Green Bay Packers quarter-back Aaron Rodgers and country music star Travis Tritt.

Inside, the Barnstable Brown Gala served up an amazing spread of food, sneak-peek tastes of the $1,000 mint ju-leps that would be sold on Derby Day, and great live music. Jennifer Holiday, the original Dreamgirl, performed. She started off with a rendition of Etta James’ “At Last” before reprising songs from Dreamgirls. Next up was spe-cial guest John Michael Montgomery, with an impromptu performance that included “Letters From Home” and “Sold (The Grundy County Auction In-cident).”

Then there were the Jacksons.If you ask event organizers, they’ll

tell you this year was bigger and better than ever. But the true proof is found among the guests, especially the loyal ones who keep coming back. And they all seemed to agree that the cast of stars, the music and the food made for their best Barnstable Brown Gala yet.

And for Priscilla Barnstable and Tri-cia Barnstable Brown, the event’s host-esses, the 22nd edition of their gala to promote funding for diabetes research and care will always be considered a glowing success. Over the years, the star-studded gala has raised millions in funding for the Barnstable Brown Dia-betes & Obesity Center at the Univer-sity of Kentucky.

The hostesses are already formulat-ing their plans for next year’s edition.

The hostesses Patricia Barnstable Brown and Priscilla Barnstable (left) at the Louisville mansion that has hosted the Gala for 22 years (above).

John Michael Montgomery performs during the Gala.

Sneak preview tastings of the $1000 Woodford Reserve Mint Julep at the Gala (above) and Allison Baver shows off her Olympic medal on the red carpet at Barnstble Brown (right).

The hostesses Patricia Barnstable Brown and Priscilla Barnstable (left) at the Louisville mansion that has hosted the Gala for 22 years (above).

Sneak preview tastings of the $1000 Woodford Reserve Mint Julep at the Gala (above) and Allison Baver shows off her Olympic medal on the red carpet at Barnstble Brown (right).


The dessert display inside of the Gala (left) and Rebecca Romjin and Jerry O’Connell on the red carpet (above).

Original Dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday performs at the Barnstable Brown Gala (left) and University of Kentucky Basketball Coach John Calipari is surrounded by television reporters on the red carpet at the Gala (above).


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Top 10 Things I Learnedat My First Kentucky Derby

By Mrs. Stride

1. Meet thy neighbors. You really have no idea who the guy in the rain poncho is.

2. Hats suggested, fashion statement required.

3. Mint juleps and lilies: You have to try them.

4. Infield mud is more than dirt and water. You really don’t want to imagine every element of derby mud.

5. Smile! there might be a photographer 200 yards away with a 600 mm lens stalking a hat photo, like my husband ...

6. All traffic transgressions are forgiven in Louisville if you use your signals and practice your Excuse me’s.

7. Bet the favorite and the long shot. Your chances are all the same, especially when Calvin is involved.

8. Bluegrass or blue skies – you might not get both.

9. there is no such thing as “the slow lane” in Louisville. everyone picks a speed, usually something on the sedate side.

10. Oaks day and derby day have very distinct personalities. there is definitely a little more Mardi Gras on Derby Day, and a little more afternoon tea on Oaks.


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You’d never know it by looking at this crowd, but Blind Luck -- who at this point in the race was well back -- edged out Evening Jewel by a nose to win the 136th Kentucky Oaks.

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When the horses line up for the Preakness, Bruce Wagner will have his finger on the button

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The most likely place for some-thing to go wrong in a thorough-bred horse race is at the starting gate. And no one knows this bet-

ter than Bruce Wagner, the man in control of the button that will open the gates for the running of the Preakness.

Wagner has been involved with racing

since he was 15 years old. He has hot-walked horses, professionally ridden as a jockey, has been a steeplechase rider and worked as a trainer. But the man who met his wife while working as a gateman at Pimlico has spent the last 22 years of his life making sure horses go into the gate safely and exit safely.

Photos and storyby Scott Serio



Says Wagner, “You just want a fair start; you keep your eyes on the dif-ficult horses, and make sure everyone comes away together.” This year will mark Wagner’s ninth time ensuring a fair start at the Preakness.

The path from working as a hotwalk-er and groom for Dick Dutrow Sr. to his current job has been an eventful one.

“I rode on the PA circuit at Penn National for maybe three years,” he re-called. “I am not sure how many win-ners I had – 250, maybe 300. Then I rode steeplechase for two years, but I got tired of getting hurt.”

Wagner then turned to training, but that didn’t quite suit his tastes, either.

“Chasing money from owners wasn’t my thing,” he says.

When a job opened up for an as-sistant starter at Delaware Park, he jumped at the opportunity. Since then, he has come into contact with a lot of horses, many of them great – and some of them stubborn.

“There was this one horse, Itron, he tried to turn over and pull on the bridle, but we got him up and off.” Itron was never a factor in the 1995 edition won by Timber Country, but he got away in good enough order to sit fifth in the field into the clubhouse turn.

Wagner attributes much of the suc-cess of his gate crew, and the crews of

‘you just want a fair start; you keep your eyes on the difficult horses, and make sure everyone comes away together.’– Bruce Wagner


all the racetracks that are at the level of the Triple Crown, to two factors: close cooperation and accurate in-formation sharing.

“We keep really good track of ev-ery horse that runs in Maryland. We keep marks on certain horses that need certain things,” says Wagner. “And now we are now involved by computer with all the other states.”

This information helps Wagner make important decision come race time. “Before the race,” he says, “I will check the numbers, assign each assistant starter to a horse. Some

guys get along with certain horses; I try to pair up assistant starters with the horses they match up with best.”

There is an added level of help for the Triple Crown. According to Wagner, Churchill Downs, Pimlico and Belmont share gate staff. “They will work the Triple Crown. Maybe they have experience with a local horse that has certain needs.” Wag-ner also thinks it helps with the de-velopment of the assistant starters with whom he works. “They get to experience different crews, and they

might be able to pick something up along the way that will help us.”

Wagner is happy to be where he is and to be involved with horse rac-ing. He takes his job seriously, al-ways keeping the fair start as the ul-timate goal. But when it comes time to take credit, he demurs.

“Anyone can do my job. The guys in the gate, they have the tough job. They get banged around a lot.

“It is a tough job,” he repeats, “and my crew is the best gate crew around. I wouldn’t work with any-one else.” h

Bruce Wagner says his main objective as the gateman at Pimlico is to ensure a fair start for every race.


Meet Ted the Barber


To doctors and lawyers, jockeys and trainers – well,

to everyone who has wandered into his barber shop, he is Ted the

Barber. Since 1980 the man with the scis-sors, whose real name is Charles Ambrose,

has been operating the tiny barber shop tucked in a corner of the grandstand at Pimlico Race Course. The

two-chair establishment is as much about friends sharing gossip as it is cutting hair. With a Fearless Fosdick sign in the win-

dow, a Seabiscuit poster right next to it and a classic barber pole outside, the shop dates back to long before Ambrose purchased it. The pensioned railroad worker was working in the jockey’s room when the opportunity arose. Thirty years later, Ted the Barber is still there, serving up donuts, coffee and a good cut to race fans and horse racing Hall of Famers alike. If you find yourself in need of a trim when you arrive at “Old Hilltop” look up Ted the Bar-ber. The cut will be solid and the conversation might even lead you to an inside tip on who might win the Preakness.

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Baltimore cuisine starts with seafood, but itdoesn’t end there – in fact, it doesn’t end

Story and photos by Scott Serio

You can find plenty of good food in and near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Blue crabs ready for cooking at Bo Brooks Restaurant (inset).


With the Run for the Roses done, an exu-berant Cajun Calvin Borel is headed to Baltimore – a Kentucky Derby winner for the third time in four years, piloting

the only horse with a chance to win the Triple Crown.When Borel and the rest of the racing world arrive in

a little less than two weeks for the 135th running of the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course, they’ll be looking to party it up and enjoy the Triple Crown ride.

The Derby might have charm and history, but as a host for the second jewel of the Triple Crown, Baltimore more than holds its own, with a practically unending variety of excellent restaurants that can satisfy the taste of any visitor. Many lie close to the Inner Harbor, the beating heart of “Charm City.” And the culinary de-lights will in many cases be centered around that local delicacy, the Chesapeake Bay blue crab.


A taste of the bay They’re called “blue crabs,” of

course, but after local stalwarts like Bo Brooks Restaurant are done with them, they certainly are not blue. And the first question you might ask yourself after eating a crab cake or crab fluff is, “How did this taste come out of that?”

But set aside all fears. Despite the possible peril of proclaiming, “I got crabs when I went to Baltimore,” be as-sured that the informed listener will respond with “steamed or crab cake?” (And yes, Bo Brooks has them steamed as well.)

Located right on the water off Boston Street in the city’s Canton neighbor-hood, the restaurant can be picked out at a distance by the red-and-white light-house. Its view of the harbor is wonder-ful. While the steamed crabs and crab cakes are great, the signature dish for years has been the crab fluff. Deep-fried until golden brown, the fluff has a bit of a spicy bite to it – and one is an under-

taking unto itself.But Bo Brooks is just one of a string

of restaurants that begins at the south-ern end of the Inner Harbor at the Rusty Scupper along the harbor’s promenade – where you find M&S Grill and La Tasca – and continues to the epicenters of Balti-more cuisine: Fells Point and Little Italy.

Not far from the local seafood mecca of Bo Brooks is another site with a more Mediterranean flair. Kali’s Court is found on Thames Street in Fells Point, just a bit down from Duda’s Tavern (more on that subject in a bit). Kali’s Court has an upscale menu that match-es its upscale clientele and its décor. If

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you visit, be sure to try their grilled bronzini – the house specialty.

Just a few doors down the block from Kali’s Court on the corner is Duda’s. It has long been known for it humongous portions, but it was also voted the “Best Crab Cake” by readers of Baltimore’s weekly City Paper. The beer list is as-tonishing, a dizzying array of off-the-wall brews – including the Congolese Simba (it’s the one with the lion’s head as a logo).

Little Italy, big tasteJust a few blocks away from Fells

Point, working your way back towards the Inner Harbor, is Little Italy, which boasts a selection of restaurants that will satisfy any Italian cravings. Aldo’s, Da Mimmo and Sotto Sopra are excel-lent choices, but the top of the list is Germano’s. Whether you get the osso buco, veal Masala or tortellini opera, an excellent meal at the family-owned and -operated restaurant on High Street is

the norm. Sabatino’s is another venerable old

player in Little Italy. They serve won-derful food, but if you’re in a hurry and want some Italian to go – maybe for a

picnic on the promenade at the Inner Harbor – go for the Bookmaker’s Salad, a super-sized salad topped with shrimp, Genoa salami, provolone cheese, a hard-boiled egg and Sabatino’s award-

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winning house dressing. Just to round out the appetizer, you get a half-loaf of Italian bread.

No matter the choice for dinner, there is only one choice for dessert in Little Italy, Canton or Fells Point: Vacca-ro’s. They have an assortment of Italian pastries and gelato, but for the major-ity of patrons, the draw is the cannoli. Since 1956, the family-owned bakery has been dishing out tastes of Sicily. And after your cannoli, be sure to grab some almond cookies or biscotti to go.

A taste for adventure If you’re feeling a bit more venture-

some, two dining spots just up Charles Street from the Inner Harbor in Mount Vernon are worth your attention: Thair-ish, at 804 N. Charles St.; and The Hel-mand, at 806 N. Charles. You can’t find more authentic Afghan cuisine than that served at The Helmand. Owned by Qayum Karzai, brother of Afghan Pres-ident Hamid Karzai, the elegant restau-

rant serves purely perfect entrees like Banjan Laghatag, Kaddo Borawni and Koufta Challow. Wondering what they are? Visit, find out, and be delighted.

Next door to the refined airs of The Helmand is Kerrigan Kitikul’s Thair-ish, a gem of a neighborhood café that specializes in Thai food. You can eas-ily miss the tiny place whose food was once voted “Best Place to Eat Six Days a Week” by the City Paper. For the un-initiated, and those who can’t take the full heat of spicy Thai cuisine, the Pad Thai is a terrific choice – whether you go with the chicken, shrimp or tofu.

Moving a little way up the heat chart is Stride’s favorite Thairish offering. Yes, there is a little heat, but not too much (let’s call it “sweet heat”). Never-theless, ordering the curry-based Masa-man could be a mistake anyway: It will thoroughly satisfy you, but when you return to Louisville, Miami, Chicago, Minneapolis or from wherever you traveled, you will only be left thinking,

Man! I wish I could make Masaman like Kerrigan! Don’t try. The effort would be doomed to failure.

There really are many more din-ing options in Charm City than can be written about in one article. Like New York, Baltimore is a melting-pot city that boasts practically all nationalities. And the personalities of these people shine through in their food – and in their drinks.

Which brings us to the last jewel in this Triple Crown tour of Baltimore cuisine. It can be found at Pimlico, the home track of the Preakness. Not often remarkable for anything culinary, race-tracks would usually be the last place to look for a “best of,” but Pimlico is exactly where you should go for the best bloody Mary. Venture to the Finish Line Bar and see Fareedah Griffin. Her simple recipe has just the right combi-nation of sweet, hot and pure kick.

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Under threatening April skies, fans clutch their umbrellas as they prepare for Day 2 of the Rolex Kentucky Three-

Day Event. A half-hour before the first horse-and-rider team breaks from the deck to begin the day’s event – a gruel-ing four-mile cross-country marathon – anorak-clad spectators have already staked out spots along the challenging obstacles of the course.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, the sun breaks through the clouds. It’s typical of how things can go here.

The Rolex, which is held each April at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexing-ton, is an exceptional – and often un-predictable – event filled with thrills and sometimes some terrifying spills. Winning the Rolex, the only four-star Three Day Event held in the Americas, brings enormous prestige. And this Rolex might hold an additional wind-fall: A good showing here will weigh heavily when it comes time to select the eventing team that will represent the United States at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, to be held at the venue from Sept. 25 to Oct. 10.

And while the 2010 Games will bring international attention to the horse park and to the state, the U.S. eventing team could shine some unanticipated light on another Kentucky staple: the racing industry. On Day 1 of Rolex – dressage day – 53 horse-and-rider teams compet-ed. More than 30 of those horses were

thoroughbreds, many of them bred in the Bluegrass State, and at least eight had started their careers on the race-track.

Second careersTwo-time Olympian Amy Tryon

came to Rolex armed with two off-the-track thoroughbreds (OTTBs): Leyland and Coal Creek. Tara Ziegler brought Buckingham Place. A grandson of the great Buckpasser, he made 40 starts and earned over $23,000. Phillip Dut-ton’s The Foreman raced under his

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registered name, Four Across, and landed in the winner’s circle once in 21 starts. El Primero, now nicknamed Tony, was bred in Idaho, where rider Sara Mittleider reportedly picked him up for $300. Wonderful Will raced 11 times and even had a brief career as a lead pony before finding his true call-ing as an eventer. There is also former Australian racer Neville Bardos, whose sale for $850 saved him from slaughter. The most celebrated OTTB, however, might be Courageous Comet. Landing in second place at Rolex in 2008, the for-mer stakes-placed racehorse carried his co-owner and rider Becky Holder all the way to the Summer Olympics that year.

“When I first saw Comet, I wanted him instantly,” says Holder, who has had the horse since he was 5. “He has a very special way of moving over the ground and is a natural athlete.” Now 14, Comet is listed among the best Three Day Event horses in the world.

He wasn’t a bad racehorse, either. Bred in New York, the son of Comet Shine was a four-time winner out of 36 starts and placed third in the 1999 New York Stallion Times Square Stakes. Comet’s career earnings totaled $71,780. “I’ve had several OTTBs that have been successful in the event world,” says

Holder, “and I am a big fan of their heart and inherent competitiveness.”

Comet, meanwhile, isn’t the first ex-racehorse to ascend to the Olympic lev-el in eventing. Tryon campaigned the bold jumping Poggio II (who raced as Chesterstimetoofly) to a bronze metal in Athens in 2004, and they returned to the Olympic stage in 2008, after which Poggio retired. Tryon is now compet-ing at the advanced levels on several

other OTTBs, including Leyland and Coal Creek, 10-year-old geldings mined from Emerald Downs in Auburn, WA, near Tryon’s home base.

The track is “a great outlet – and it’s definitely in my price range,” laughs Tryon. “I would never have been able to afford horses that weren’t off the track.”

Tryon is so committed to OTTBs, she is considered a regular on the back-stretch, and has developed enough of a relationship with trainers that they now often call her about prospects, not only for herself, but for her clients as well. “Some end up being children’s hunters, some ending being equitation horses, and some, if they continue to improve as event horses, hopefully like doing the four-star level,” she says. “Thor-oughbreds tend to be very genuine and tend to have really good work ethics.”

The small but mighty El Primero has similar small-track roots. He be-gan his racing career at Les Bois Park in Boise, ID. “He had six starts and never outran a single horse,” says his rider, Mittleider. While the 15.2h son of Dr. Dan Eyes never made it to the winner’s circle, Mittleider says Tony can boast a number of other accomplishments, such as being the first Idaho-bred to compete at the highest level in eventing. Indeed, Boyd Martin rode Neville Bardos, who was saved from slaughter, in this year’s Rolex.

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for three consecutive years, Tony finished in the top 20 at Rolex.

For the 24-year-old Mittleider, an OTTB was a natural option, since both of her parents were thor-oughbred trainers. But the horses, she says, are athletes with the qualities necessary for the rigors of eventing. “The off-track horses already have a lot of life experiences,” she says, “they have been fit and they already have the ‘go’ button installed, which is important in an event horse.”

Anna Ford, program director at New Voca-tions, a racehorse adop-tion agency started by her parents with facili-ties in Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee and Kentucky, has made a career of find-ing new homes for ex-racehorses, and attests to the natural abilities of thoroughbreds. “They are very trainable, espe-cially if you can keep them comfortable in their environment,” she says. “Most of the problems that [less experienced] people have when they are first com-ing off the track is that they throw too many new things at them at once, and they can’t handle that.”

Ford has seen many sport horse people, but especially eventers, looking for potential rides among her retrained geldings and mares, most of which had minor injuries that ended their racing careers. “We definitely have a lot of eventers come through,” she says, “and it’s my favorite crowd, because to do eventing, you have to know your stuff, and thoroughbreds fit in so well there.”

Making connectionsWhile eventers, professional or oth-

erwise, are doing their part to provide a solution when it comes to off-the-track unemployment, most feel that opening

up lines of communication between tracks and sport horse people could help many more OTTBs find new homes and second careers. “I don’t think that race-track people are very aware of the oth-er horse sports where thoroughbreds excel,” says Mittleider, “and it’s likely they don’t know how to make contact with those sports.”

Tryon adds: “If you make yourself known at your local track, make it known that you are looking for a sound young horse that maybe doesn’t run well, hopefully people will start calling you. It’s not as intimidating as it may seem.”

But Ford notes that many competi-tive riders don’t have the experience or expertise of a Rolex-level equestrian. They aren’t comfortable going directly to the track – often for good reason.

“Amy Tryon and Becky Holder, they know enough that they can go down

to the track, pull a horse out of a stall, and know if it’s going to fit them,” she says. “What we have to offer is a horse that’s been evaluated, has been off the track for a few months, and a rider can see exactly what their dis-positions are going to be like.” Also, she adds, “It’s very hard for racetracks to do more than they are doing. They’ve got to run a business. They can’t re-ally have herds of people coming in. So hopefully they’ll support groups like ours, and let us mar-ket them and show [the horses] for what they are.”

It’s an open question whether an OTTB will be invited to the coming World Equestrian Games. It will take the rest of the summer for the official selection team to choose who will represent the United States in Lexing-ton. But such publicity

could have a significant effect on the reputation of the racehorse.

“It definitely would be great expo-sure,” says Ford. “It’s important to see that these horses, even if they have raced, can go on and do more, even the Olympics and World Games – and that’s just huge.”

On the final day of Rolex, the sta-dium jumping concludes on a wildly windy afternoon. When the last fence is cleared, Holder and Courageous Comet find themselves in third place. Dutton and The Foreman finish fifth, giving them both a good shot at an invite to the WEG. Of the top 10 finishing hors-es, eight of them are thoroughbreds and three are off the track.

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“When you wake you shall have all the pretty horses. Blacks and bays, dapple grays…”

That lullaby pretty much sums up my childhood. Indeed, I grew up with quite a number of pretty hors-es. It started at 10 months old, with a very pretty bay named Northern Dancer.

From that day on, my picture was taken with a lengthy list of champion Thoroughbreds. A chestnut stallion called Secretariat soon followed. A sunny after-noon was spent playing in a field with a sweet dapple gray by the name of Lady’s Secret.

I rode in a car up the rolling Pennsylvania hills as Lonesome Glory galloped alongside. I picked flowers as Da Hoss grazed just inches from me, only a week after

his second Breeders Cup Mile win. Genuine Risk showed off her first foal to me. And I saw the regal Dahlia twice – first as a baby in my mother’s arms, and then years later, standing on my own two feet, now tall enough to reach her nose.

I introduced my dolls to Pre-cisionist, gave a bouquet of dan-delions to Alydar, and Holy Bull nibbled on my hair.

And I have it on good author-ity that my first kiss just may have been from Cigar. He was quite the charmer. Then there was Seattle

Slew, Affirmed, Forego, John Henry, Damascus, Mr. Prospec-tor, His Majesty, Danzig, and Spectacular Bid, who by that time was white as snow. The list goes on and on.

Mighty photo albums lined our shelves at home, as they still do today. The pages are not as white as they used to be, and some are now frayed along the edges, but the albums are still there, forming a wall of memories that any horse lover would dream about.

On my last trip home, I looked at some of these albums. The covers creaked open, revealing a rich tapestry of scenes – this horse, that farm, big smiles, outdated outfits.

But instead of joy or nostalgia, a strange emotion crept into

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my mind. Regret. I suddenly realized that I didn’t have one true memory of these scenes, that my only “memories” of these remark-able experiences were through photos and stories.

Even once I was old enough to capture these moments, I lacked the appreciation to really make them stick in my head. Despite what my father enthusiastically tried to tell me, I couldn’t fully understand who these horses were, or what they had accom-plished.

That feeling of regret was quickly followed by an overwhelm-ing sense of guilt. How many people would kill for experiences like this? Yet, to my naïve younger self in these photos, it was just another horse. It pains me to write that.

Admittedly, I took it all for granted, not knowing at the time how lucky I really was. While my dad was having me pose for pictures (no doubt encountering some resistance and overly dramatic rolling of the eyes in later years), I didn’t realize he was actually giving me a very special gift. I have to believe that he knew I couldn’t appreciate all this then, and that’s why he froze these moments in time. He wanted me to look back at them all these years later and think, I did this – how lucky was I?

Sitting here now, looking at a photo of me as a baby with chubby cheeks meeting Northern Dancer, I’m thinking that very thought.

I suppose childhood memories can only be fully em-braced in retrospection. Only then do we grieve over their transience and celebrate their sublime purity. That’s why we take photos. So those moments will one day be suspended in time and bound by gilded picture frames. Untouchable. A brief glimpse into who we were and the experiences that made us who we are today.

I am the person I am today because of years of green pastures, white fences, shaded stables, the soft purring of barn cats, the crinkling of peppermint wrappers, and of course the blacks and bays and dapple grays.

Thanks to my dad and a library full of photo albums, I will always have cloudless memories of all those pretty horses.

***As an addendum to this column, I have been asked

if I plan to stay involved in horse racing, and in what capacity.

To answer that question, I must once again return to

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my past. For as long as I can remember, I have tried to find a way to keep racing in my life. As a teenager I wanted to be a trainer, until I realized how early in the morning I’d have to wake up.

Then I wanted to be a bloodstock agent because it sounded cool. But I soon came to the realization that I un-derstood more about quantum physics than I did about equine conformation.

I eventually decided to become a vet-erinarian, majoring in pre-vet in college and spending my summers working at the New Jersey Equine Clinic under Scott Palmer and Patty Hogan. But af-ter three school years of organic chem-istry and systems physiology, and two summers spent covered in blood and holding castrated testicles, I knew that wasn’t for me, either. I rebelled against all things science-related by changing my major to English and Art History, and decided that I would make lots of money and become a horse owner.

When it became clear that an English

major was not going to make me rich, I resigned myself to just being a horse racing fan, and maybe a suave gambler like some female Damon Runyon char-acter. But just when I was about to start smoking cigars and learning the art of slapping a rolled up program into my hand, my father told me he was going to the Dubai World Cup and he found a writing assignment for me. Pat Cum-mings wanted me to write a piece for his website, DubaiRaceNight.com, chronicling my first trip to Dubai.

I was ecstatic. Suddenly I was a seri-

ous journalist, traveling to the Middle East to report back on my cultural and glamorous experiences in a far-off land. In my head, I was Kipling. I wrote that article with all the enthu-siasm and flowery metaphors I had in me, and actually received a lot of great feedback. People were saying that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree and making jokes about my dad being a good “sire” – that he was the next Storm Cat. I was honored and touched by all

the compliments. But most importantly I knew I made my dad proud.

So the answer to that question is, of course, yes. But it took a while for me to realize I was destined to follow in my fa-ther’s footsteps and actually write about horse racing. I guess life doesn’t always show you the easy path. It’s all those dead ends and roundabouts that allow you to recognize the right path when it appears before you. I know now that horse racing will remain in my life as long as I keep writing about it. h

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