Winning Ponies

Old Friends' founder and President Michael Blowen will tell us about his journey from his position as Arts & Entertainment reporter and film critic for The Boston Globe to racing a small stable of claiming-level horses and to ultimately becoming operations director for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. In the second segment Richard Eng who covers the Horse Racing industry for the Las Vegas Review Journal, and author of Handicapping for Dummies will join our host in handicapping some of the important stakes races to be run around the country this week-end, among others the $750,000 Grade I Woodward Stakes, The $500,000 Grade I Forego Handicap and the $250,000 Grade II (T) Bernard Baruch Handicap all at Saratoga, and the $85,000 Harry F. Brubaker Stakes and the $300,000 Grade I Del Mar Debutante Stakes at Del Mar.