Jon Stettin’s Blog
The House makes the rules, and if you play you are going to play by those rules, whether you like it or not. The house has bet on you playing regardless of what the rules are, or how they interpret...
I am pretty sure Yogi Berra was talking baseball when he said “90% of this game is half mental.” I always understood Yogi and had a similar way of thinking. In racing 90% of this game is at least 50%...
There are a lot of people, including some fine horsemen, who believe jockeys do not matter all that much. Allen Jerkens was as good as it gets and was known to give all riders a shot and felt anyone could...
The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile So much has changed in the Thoroughbred industry in the past 25 years or so, the least of which is not training a race horse. Training race horses still has some basic fundamentals,...
The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile If you missed the 70’s and 80’s in horse racing, you truly missed some glory years when the Sport of Kings was so much more than what it has been reduced to today....
The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile Too often the Sport of Kings has questions with no answers. On better days we have more questions than we do answers. That’s usually not a good place to be. Today I’ll talk...
The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile It is easy to talk about the big wins and scores and at one point or another most, if not all, of us do it. I remember them all, but we know this...
The 2021 Grade 1 Keeneland Turf Mile This past Saturday we saw the most exciting edition of the Belmont Derby in the short history of the race. Martin Panza, of the New York Racing Association, had a great idea implementing...