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Labor Day Sees Plenty of Work Ahead	August 31st 2008
Welcome to September, my favorite month. It's the time for pennant races, the Grand Circuit at Lexington, and a little race called the Little Brown Ju... [Read More]

All Hail King Dewey	August 30th 2008
Just saw Deweycheatumnhowe finish off the competition this afternoon at the World Trotting Derby. If nothing else, the colt's race should forever sile... [Read More]

Selling the Sales: The Lex Book Arrives	August 30th 2008
Smart folks, those Lexington Selected Yearling Sale marketers. They made sure that they got their catalogues for the October sale to potential buyers ... [Read More]

The Tug River Affair Ends	August 29th 2008
Shortly after I wrote about ownership responsibility issues in the wake of the Tug River Princess affair (the filly and her owners were penalized... [Read More]

Kleinhans on Breeders' Crown and More	August 29th 2008
He's back. Peter Kleinhans, that is. With another excellent installment of his blog within a blog. Without further ado, heeeerrrrrrrre's Peter: ... [Read More]

Weekend Watching, Labor Day Version	August 29th 2008
Okay, since I know you care, I am going to share with you my weekend harness watching plans. I'm watching the Cane Pace on Monday and the gre... [Read More]

HOY Award is Dewey's to Lose	August 29th 2008
Good Friday morning. Not too many horses could draw the 7-hole at Freehold and still come out as a 9-5 morning-line favorite in a race l... [Read More]

Can't Get Enough of Barry White Story	August 27th 2008
Any story that involves a man named "Barry White" is worthy of First Over attention. The White we are concerned with is not, however, the gravel-voice... [Read More]

Finger Lake-ing Good Idea for Horse Adoption	August 27th 2008
Good morning. First Over Friend Allan Schott passed along this interesting story about how Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack is helping to adopt out o... [Read More]

Kentucky Bans Steroids: See How Easy That Was?	August 26th 2008
Good morning. Just like that, poof, Kentucky has banned the use of anabolic steroids, a move that ought to have a ripple effect on the entire harness ... [Read More]

Hanover's Paul Spears: Slots Discouraging PA Sales	August 25th 2008
Here is a comment I received today from Hanover's Paul Spears who wrote to express his frustration in the wake of Sunday's PA Preferred Sale. I find i... [Read More]

Paging Karen Offutt: Want to Sell a Horse?	August 25th 2008
Good Monday morning. I feel all preached out today because I had some CBS friends over yesterday and all I did was talk about harness racing... [Read More]

Five Weeks Later, M-Pace Setters Still Setting Pace	August 24th 2008
Good Sunday morning. Are you surprised that Art Official yesterday paced the fastest mile in the 604-year history of Freehold Raceway? I am not. ... [Read More]

Good for the ORC for Looking Into Suspicious Qualifier	August 22nd 2008
I've been sitting on this story for a few days-- thanks to Ed Martin for passing it along this past weekend-- but now we can talk about it. The O... [Read More]

The Pennnsylvania Polka	August 22nd 2008
Good Friday morning. It could be an exciting weekend at the Casa Cohen. Sam's filly McGibson goes today in the New Jersey Sire Stakes at Freehold (she... [Read More]

The RCI Takes a Good Step; Commissions Must Follow	August 21st 2008
Good news yesterday from Racing Commissioners International. The RCI helped pave the way for state racing commissions to implement tougher anti-drug r... [Read More]

Why Don't We Train Horses in the Afternoon?	August 21st 2008
Good morning and here is the Zen thought of the day. Why don't horse people train horses in the afternoon? The races are in the afternoon, or the even... [Read More]

Team Harness Racing: from Tim Konkle	August 19th 2008
We have this morning a "guest blog" from Tim Konkle, the nice fellow who handles the Hoosier Horse Review chronicling all that is happening in Indiana... [Read More]

Stars, Flops, and Comebacks: Sunday Had it All	August 17th 2008
Sunday was a great day to have two Racetrack Television Network receivers, or an uncanny ability to jump back and forth between two tracks, because th... [Read More]

Langley to Cohen: I get it, you don't	August 16th 2008
After reading my post this morning Phil Langley, President of the United States Trotting Association, sent in the following "comment" (which also appe... [Read More]

Langley Still Doesn't Get It	August 16th 2008
Good Saturday morning. I was able to catch up on a little harness reading last night and while I was enjoying the current issue of Hoof Beats I came a... [Read More]

The Battle of Brandywine	August 15th 2008
We are really looking forward to watching Share The Delight in the Battle of Brandywine on Sunday evening at Harrah's Chester. He's had a re... [Read More]

What Should I Watch This Weekend?	August 15th 2008
Good Friday morning, friends. I am soliciting today suggestions on what races I shouldn't miss this weekend. So far, the plan is relatively simple. I ... [Read More]

Wrong Horse? Wrong Message	August 14th 2008
Good Thursday morning. It's Andrew and I'm back (sort of) for the next few days. By now you've probably read this story about the "wrong horse" racing... [Read More]

Year-round racing in Delaware?	August 12th 2008
It's Gordon Waterstone again, hoping to help Andrew with his blog while he remains busy with important family matters. I do know though... [Read More]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart	August 12th 2008
Good afternoon. Words cannot express how grateful I am for all the kind words of support and sympathy so many of you have given me and m... [Read More]

Share The Delight co-owner Edward Cohen dies	August 8th 2008
Edward Cohen, the father of The Horseman And Fair World columnist and First Over blogger Andrew Cohen, and himself a co-owner of 2008 Meadowlands Pace... [Read More]

Contrasting reports from Pennsylvania, New York	August 8th 2008
With Andrew absent again Friday, it's Gordon Waterstone trying to fill in his big shoes. I found it interesting that there are contrasting report... [Read More]

She's going to Springfield, I'm going to The Red Mile	August 7th 2008
With Andrew tending to family matters, and Kathy having posted her own blog about her trip to Springfield, she asked me to also fill in to tell of my ... [Read More]

Heading to the fair	August 7th 2008
Hi, Andrew is handling the needs of his father at the hospital, so this is Kathy Parker guest blogging. I've never been to Springfield for Illinois St... [Read More]

Purses Up, Handle Down, in Keystone State	August 6th 2008
Here is the link to a glossy new report on horse racing in Pennsylvania. I can't pretend to understand what all the terms and figures represent but th... [Read More]

Picking Cottonwood: Illinois Breeders Deserve Better	August 6th 2008
It's sales catalogue time and once again the folks at Cottonwood Farm in Big Rock, Illinois have sent me their list of yearlings for sale. I love look... [Read More]

LBJ Figures To Break Some Records With New Surface	August 5th 2008
The "glamour boy" division already has seen two horses pace in 1.47, shattering a world record for 3-year-olds and coming within a fifth of the all-ti... [Read More]

Xtreme, Part Deux: A Good Idea Never Copied	August 5th 2008
Good Tuesday morning. I am xtremely disappointed that the creative concept of "Xtreme Horsepower"-- different kinds of harness races initiated last ye... [Read More]

Ho Ho Hialeah-- Save it!	August 4th 2008
On this post-Hoveambo Monday let's digress a bit to the T-bred game. There is a move afoot to save a track that has special meaning to me-- Hialeah Ra... [Read More]

Jay Wolf On Scioto and More	August 4th 2008
Good Monday morning. Only 363 days left until the next Hambo. This morning I offer a "guest" post by Jay Wolf. Here is the email he sent me early... [Read More]

Dewey Defeats.... Them All	August 2nd 2008
So Deweycheatumnhowe did what Big Brown could not. He did smoothly and expectedly what Somebeachsomewhere could not. He did what no other winner ... [Read More]

The Oaks, the Shalee, and a Group of Kids	August 2nd 2008
An amazing thing is taking place here in the 4th floor waiting room at the Rose Medical Center. There is a gaggle of kids here waiting to see their gr... [Read More]

Pouring Down Rain at the Big M (Updated)	August 2nd 2008
Poor Meadowlands, poor Hambletonian Society. At post time for the first race on this Day of Days it is pouring down rain (with gusts of wind) in East ... [Read More]

Getting Ready to Blog On Hambo Day	August 2nd 2008
Good Saturday morning. So far, so good, on the operation front for my dad so I'll be watching the races from the Big M today from the waiting roo... [Read More]

Art Official Gets His Due: Horse of the Month	August 1st 2008
Hello from the Rose Medical Center, second floor waiting area, where your favorite blogger has just learned that Art Official has been named Horse of ... [Read More]

I'm Adios Today-- So I Need Help with the Adios	August 1st 2008
Hey there, First Over friends. I won't be able to watch the Adios eliminations today because I'll be at the hospital with my mother. My father he... [Read More]

Great Dewey Color Courtesy of Chris Tully	August 1st 2008
Good morning. I am not easily impressed when it comes to writing about harness writing-- I think some of it is downright terrible. But Chris Tully of ... [Read More]

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