Warren Eves | April 13, 2013
By Warren Eves The following mock telegram was written about the University of Louisville basketball team by California scribe Bob Jackson. “If any of y’all are plannin’ to come to town on the first Saturday in May, please tell us y’all are gonna be sittin’ in those fancy Churchill Downs [...]
Warren Eves | March 9, 2013
By Warren Eves Owners like Walter Cluer are badly missed in horse racing. “He was the best,” says Ray Odom, Sr., who is in his 55th year as a thoroughbred trainer at Turf Paradise. Cluer, a millwork founder and manufacturer from Phoenix, bought 1400 acres of [...]
Warren Eves | August 27, 2011
By Warren Eves Jose Valdivia is returning to California and will ride at Fairplex Park. Veteran jockey agent Vince DeGregory made the announcement. DeGregory will continue to handle the business of jockey Alonso Quinonez. Valdivia won the Belmont Stakes with Ruler On Ice. He called DeGregory and asked him [...]
Warren H. Eves | February 9, 2011
By Warren Eves Remember the 18-year-old kid named Fernando Jara who won the Breeders Cup Classic with Invasor way back when? Jara resurfaced Wednesday at the Big A and won wire to wire with his only mount–Number One Cherry in the day’s sixth race. The [...]
Warren Eves | June 8, 2010
By Warren Eves It might be a good idea to follow Joseph M. Jennings at Monmouth Park the rest of the summer. Here’s why. On June 5, the seventh day of the summer meet, Jennings saddled the ninth race winner–a four-year-old filly named First Acquital. [...]
