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02-25-2016, 02:27 PM
Tonight (2/25) at 8pm ET (5pm PT), on our live Internet radio show "Winning Ponies", we welcome Hall of Fame Jockey Pat Day and Award-Winning Writer and Handicapper Frank Angst!
You can hear the show live (as well as the past archived shows) at: http://radio.winningponies.com/
We hope you tune in live, and feel free to call in (888-346-9144) to speak with our special guests, or even to give your hot tip. We are offering a free WinningPonies.com baseball cap to everyone who calls into the show!
This Saturday there will be plenty of reasons to focus on Gulfstream Park. Hall of Fame Jockey Pat Day will be at Gulfstream to partake in a fundraiser for the PDJF called "Jockeys and Jeans." Pat will reflect on some of the great races of his career and share some stories about his days with many of the other Hall of Fame riders that will be in attendance. In all 14 Hall of Fame riders are scheduled to attend among others Manuel Ycaza and John Rotz.
Also Gulfstream Park will offer many stakes. The Blood-Horse's Handicapper and Award-Winning writer Frank Angst will join John Engelhardt to analyze the top races that will include performances by the undefeated Mohaymen in the Gr. 2 $400,000 Fountain of Youth and the undefeated Cathryn Sophia in the Gr. 2 Davona Dale - both races should produce starters in the Kentucky Derby and Oaks. In addition to those races Frank and John will handicap the highly competitive $150,000 Gr. 3 Palm Springs and the $150,000 Gr. 3 Canadian Turf.
Guest #1 Bio - Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day was born October 13, 1953 in Brush, Colorado. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991. Day also received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1985, given annually to a North American jockey who demonstrates the highest standards of professional and personal conduct. In 1995, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship". Day has ridden winners of U.S. Triple Crown races nine times. Day was quoted in a recent interview on the TVG Network's "Legends" program that Easy Goer was the best horse he ever rode in his career. In 1991, Pat Day won the Canadian Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard the future Hall of Fame filly Dance Smartly. He is the only jockey to have ridden at least one mount in each of the first 20 Breeders' Cups, and ranks second all-time in Breeders' Cup winners, with 12. Day is also the all-time leading rider at Churchill Downs and Keeneland Race Course, the two largest tracks in his adopted home state of Kentucky. In 1989, he set a North American record when he won eight of nine mounts in a single day at Arlington Park. Early in his career, he had serious substance abuse problems with both drugs and alcohol, but became a born-again Christian in the early 1980s. He has been involved with the Race Track Chaplaincy of America since his conversion, and is currently the racing industry's representative on the board of that organization. After undergoing hip surgery that forced him to miss the Derby for the first time in 21 years, Day announced his retirement on August 3, 2005 after a 32-year career that saw him ride 8,804 winners, fourth on the all-time list, and set a North American record for prize money won, with his mounts earning nearly USD 298 million. He said he would retire and commit the rest of his life purely to spreading the Gospel. Day and his family reside in the Lake Forest subdivision in Louisville, Kentucky. Lil E. Tee in 1992 scored one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Kentucky Derby. His jockey was Pat Day; This was Pat Day's first and only Kentucky Derby victory.
Guest #2 Bio - Frank Angst
Recently The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB) announced Jan. 5, 2015 that The Blood-Horse has won the 2014 Media Eclipse Award in the Audio/Multi-Media Internet category for “Waiting, and Waiting, for Crowning Glory: A generation repeatedly denied a Triple Crown winner looks to California Chrome,” an in depth examination of the difficulties of winning Thoroughbred racing’s greatest challenge, which appeared on bloodhorse.com on May 28, 2014. Written by Frank Angst, “Waiting, and Waiting, for Crowning Glory” offered a comprehensive multi-media presentation on the various components of the “near misses” of the Triple Crown, which has not been won since Affirmed captured the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in 1978. The article examined the improbable odds of a horse sweeping all three grade 1 races at distances of greater than 1 1/8 miles; related the stories of the most recent horses who won the first two Jewels of the Triple Crown; and recalled the “spoilers,” the horses that won the Belmont Stakes and denied the Derby and Preakness winners their ultimate goal.The last section of the piece undertook explanations for the reasons behind the Triple Crown not being achieved in 36 years, exploring the changes in breeding, training, field sizes of the Triple Crown races, and fewer starts by horses than previous generations, among other variables. “It is a tremendous honor and I can’t emphasize enough how much of a team effort it was to win this award,” said Angst, a staff writer at The Blood-Horse since 2013 who previously wrote for the Thoroughbred Times for 12 years. “After doing this story, when a horse finally wins the Triple Crown, I will be more impressed and appreciative of the enormous accomplishment it is to sweep all three races.”
You can hear the show live (as well as the past archived shows) at: http://radio.winningponies.com/
We hope you tune in live, and feel free to call in (888-346-9144) to speak with our special guests, or even to give your hot tip. We are offering a free WinningPonies.com baseball cap to everyone who calls into the show!
This Saturday there will be plenty of reasons to focus on Gulfstream Park. Hall of Fame Jockey Pat Day will be at Gulfstream to partake in a fundraiser for the PDJF called "Jockeys and Jeans." Pat will reflect on some of the great races of his career and share some stories about his days with many of the other Hall of Fame riders that will be in attendance. In all 14 Hall of Fame riders are scheduled to attend among others Manuel Ycaza and John Rotz.
Also Gulfstream Park will offer many stakes. The Blood-Horse's Handicapper and Award-Winning writer Frank Angst will join John Engelhardt to analyze the top races that will include performances by the undefeated Mohaymen in the Gr. 2 $400,000 Fountain of Youth and the undefeated Cathryn Sophia in the Gr. 2 Davona Dale - both races should produce starters in the Kentucky Derby and Oaks. In addition to those races Frank and John will handicap the highly competitive $150,000 Gr. 3 Palm Springs and the $150,000 Gr. 3 Canadian Turf.
Guest #1 Bio - Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day was born October 13, 1953 in Brush, Colorado. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991. Day also received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1985, given annually to a North American jockey who demonstrates the highest standards of professional and personal conduct. In 1995, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship". Day has ridden winners of U.S. Triple Crown races nine times. Day was quoted in a recent interview on the TVG Network's "Legends" program that Easy Goer was the best horse he ever rode in his career. In 1991, Pat Day won the Canadian Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard the future Hall of Fame filly Dance Smartly. He is the only jockey to have ridden at least one mount in each of the first 20 Breeders' Cups, and ranks second all-time in Breeders' Cup winners, with 12. Day is also the all-time leading rider at Churchill Downs and Keeneland Race Course, the two largest tracks in his adopted home state of Kentucky. In 1989, he set a North American record when he won eight of nine mounts in a single day at Arlington Park. Early in his career, he had serious substance abuse problems with both drugs and alcohol, but became a born-again Christian in the early 1980s. He has been involved with the Race Track Chaplaincy of America since his conversion, and is currently the racing industry's representative on the board of that organization. After undergoing hip surgery that forced him to miss the Derby for the first time in 21 years, Day announced his retirement on August 3, 2005 after a 32-year career that saw him ride 8,804 winners, fourth on the all-time list, and set a North American record for prize money won, with his mounts earning nearly USD 298 million. He said he would retire and commit the rest of his life purely to spreading the Gospel. Day and his family reside in the Lake Forest subdivision in Louisville, Kentucky. Lil E. Tee in 1992 scored one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Kentucky Derby. His jockey was Pat Day; This was Pat Day's first and only Kentucky Derby victory.
Guest #2 Bio - Frank Angst
Recently The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters (NTWAB) announced Jan. 5, 2015 that The Blood-Horse has won the 2014 Media Eclipse Award in the Audio/Multi-Media Internet category for “Waiting, and Waiting, for Crowning Glory: A generation repeatedly denied a Triple Crown winner looks to California Chrome,” an in depth examination of the difficulties of winning Thoroughbred racing’s greatest challenge, which appeared on bloodhorse.com on May 28, 2014. Written by Frank Angst, “Waiting, and Waiting, for Crowning Glory” offered a comprehensive multi-media presentation on the various components of the “near misses” of the Triple Crown, which has not been won since Affirmed captured the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in 1978. The article examined the improbable odds of a horse sweeping all three grade 1 races at distances of greater than 1 1/8 miles; related the stories of the most recent horses who won the first two Jewels of the Triple Crown; and recalled the “spoilers,” the horses that won the Belmont Stakes and denied the Derby and Preakness winners their ultimate goal.The last section of the piece undertook explanations for the reasons behind the Triple Crown not being achieved in 36 years, exploring the changes in breeding, training, field sizes of the Triple Crown races, and fewer starts by horses than previous generations, among other variables. “It is a tremendous honor and I can’t emphasize enough how much of a team effort it was to win this award,” said Angst, a staff writer at The Blood-Horse since 2013 who previously wrote for the Thoroughbred Times for 12 years. “After doing this story, when a horse finally wins the Triple Crown, I will be more impressed and appreciative of the enormous accomplishment it is to sweep all three races.”