Will you be in Saratoga on Friday, July 19th, for Opening Day at the historic, 150-year-old, Saratoga Race Course? Of course you'll be there! No real fan of horse racing would miss this most extraordinary Opening Day in racing history....
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Love Horses? Love Books? MaryAnn Myers in Saratoga, Sunday, August 4th.
There are writers, and then there are writers. Some writers take a deep breath, and plunge into the frightening, long journey toward being published as an author. A real book. The focus and drive that it takes to create a...
“Flying Change…” by Patrick Smithwick: Guts. Glory. GREAT Book.
Every now and then, someone writes a book that I love. Less-often, someone pens a tome to which I can relate, directly, and cry my way through to the end. "Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing" by...
Book Review: “Six Weeks in Saratoga,” by Brendan O’Meara
SIX WEEKS IN SARATOGAHow Three-Year-Old Filly Rachel Alexandra Beat the Boys and Became Horse of the Yearby Brendan O'MearaISBN13: ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3941-9Excelsior Editions (State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, 257 pages, $27)I like writing book reviews, because I love reading...
Book Review: Fender Mason by Bernie Orenstein. (Great Tale [Tail?], Fun Read, Wonderful Book)
A few weeks ago, I was up way-too late, incapable of sleeping. As I channel-surfed, I thought that the infomercials and other shoppertunities should have bored me into the Arms of Morpheus.But no. I couldn't sleep, and became aggravated by...
Book Review: “For Parents Only: Straight Talk from Inside the American High School” by Richard Michael Holmes.
I'll start this book review by being brutally honest: I don't know anything about education. I mean, I got an education (high school, college). I had some great Teachers, Professors and Mentors along the way. The combined Wisdom of these...
Book Review: “Hayseed’s First Race”–Building Self Esteem, from the Turf, Up.
If you were kinda short and had an odd birthmark--would it stop you from finding your star, and following it all the way to personal victory? Those problems didn't stop George Stephanopoulos or Mikhail Gorbachev--and it shouldn't stop anyone else,...
Book Review: “Horsenameographies: Life Stories in a Race Horse Name” — More than just a great read, a roadmap to finding our core.
Books in the Middle Ages were treasures. Not everyone owned a book, usually only royalty or those wealthy enough to afford a scribe to hand-write a book for them. These books were beautiful, no two books alike. It could take...