Greg Hopper

Baffert colt JUSTIFY 1/5 in his upcoming debut @santaanitapark. Wonder what his Derby odds would be at the moment as an unraced 3yo mid-Feb?

@BillboardChris @CarolFielding1 Other than that....

@CarolFielding1 I’ve lived in BC all my life, genius.

While I am not voting for Black, this joker needs to go home to the US and stay out of our BC politics!

@1FastColt @SheaMizer What's the issue? If you want to run for a purse of $89K and not face allowance horses then risking selling your horse for $62.5K isn't a bad deal...

@SheaMizer I think you are being wise or you wouldn’t lead with it. It’s like saying, “I don’t want to be rude”. In your theory it’s good for the game, then if every horse gets claimed in every race, that is better yet. Clearly not true. Yes, claiming needs to happen.

This a a serious epidemic when 5 of the 7 horses are claimed for $62,500! More unbelievably one of them was claimed by an “Unknown Trainer”!

@Dallas_Brodie @JasJohalBC I'd tune in for that and I'm sure it would attract many other first-time listeners

@JasJohalBC Hi Jas - Dallas Brodie here - I agree with the comment above - it’s high time you invited me on your show since you often discuss me in absentia. I am available any time - you pick! Or does CKNW have a ban on me?

If Vancouver-Quilchena voters are succesful, does that make the Fulmer/Brodie deal null and void? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

@danvinylman @Dallas_Brodie Please don't. It will be more fun watching the proponents cheat and still fail to hit the threshold

@Dallas_Brodie I am going to send an email to Elections BC to have this petition thrown out for allowing NDP insiders to file this. Why are they even allowing this?

Who could guess why the NDP and Reconciliation Industry activists are coming after me....?

@JasJohalBC Vancouver-Quilchena voters spoke 18 months ago. This isn't about the voters or the real people who live in the riding.

@byronrogers73 #2 should also apply to probables. So annoying not knowing if the track/ADW is showing probables based on $1 or $2

Two of the most bizarre barriers to entry that North American horse racing has created is: 1. Fractional odds. If any sane human looks up at a board and sees 2.5 it’s pretty easy to say “put a dollar on that horse and that’s what you get back if it wins”…instead we put up 6/4 and expect new players to understand it right away. Why? 2. Not making every payout in every bet type on every ADW to a $1 standard. Why are some $2 or $0.50 and some $1? Just silly.

@UlwellingRacing @mnwild Still, I wish your guy (Kaprizov maybe?) had taken the shot in OT instead of passing immediately before the Avs went down and scored the winner

Ray Charles could see that Colorado was a FAR superior team than the @mnwild Lots of work to do for Minnesota.

@GuyAdami @JesseBarfield29

Clemente

@RockNRoLL_85 Jealous Guy is better than either. It's the best song any Beatle ever wrote.

Is “Maybe I’m Amazed” by Paul McCartney a better song than “Imagine” by John Lennon

@BillboardChris Imagine being able to opt in or out. Everyone could be happy in BC for once

I’m perfectly fine with being woken up anytime for an alert of children being kidnapped. All hands on deck.

I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance. Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith. Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn't, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield. This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging. I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment. But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind. When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn't unique. It was all the same story over and over again. I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don't understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly. One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.

@atTheTrack7 The owners too

Good on Riley Mott. This makes a ton of sense the way the race is taking shape.

@Pedigreeconsult Is there anything about North American horse racing in its present state that would be designed this way intentionally?

Hard to do re logistics. Thinking about it, if you were designing a three race series for 3yo colts, would you ever design it so the best 20 - give or take the odd late developer - raced just two weeks before the second leg...

@Tim_Pettit_ @DavidKrayden So do I. @Dallas_Brodie and Caroline were pioneers in calling this out. But at the same time I realize that a one-issue candidate isn't the answer for BC or for the BC Conservatives

@DavidKrayden I do. She was raising concerns before anyone else did on these issues and before she hired Ontario campaign staffers.

Do you believe her? Who is working to elect this woman? Carney handlers are on her campaign team. She has the endorsement of Covid mandate king Jason Kenney.

@MarcScottEmery Many of these workers are forced to pay the owner to get those jobs. Will the locals match the going rate?

My local A&W had a staff lunch yesterday & all 10 staff were from India or The Philippines. So today or Monday I am going to talk to the manager & suggest that it might be good for his business & future relationship with the community if he hired some local people to work there.

@C__Herridge @mayemusk @grok Canada was great then. Eaton's, Simpson's, The Bay all gone now. Like our history. And our future.....

@mayemusk @grok This brings back many memories of growing up in Toronto and shopping at Eaton's. Thank you for sharing and sending best wishes for Mother's Day!

Happy Mother’s Day photo for tomorrow, now speaking with @grok 💖💖 This 1990 poster was one of the first modeling jobs I did when I moved from Johannesburg to Toronto. They didn’t even ask if I had children. They needed me as, at 41, I was the oldest model in Canada. I told this story in my book as this poster got me my start to obtaining a credit rating. #AWomanMakesAPlan 📖 #ItsGreatToBe78 @XFashion

@jensblog @DanonymousMan @reredevaux @foxandfriends @ABRLive @keeneland 100% Jen!

@DanonymousMan @reredevaux @foxandfriends @ABRLive @keeneland Going for the legendary Triple Crown would have been good too

Another really nice job by @reredevaux just now on @foxandfriends explaining how the horse comes first in the decision making process. Puts it in simple terms, easy to understand. With all eyes on racing, we seriously couldn’t have asked for a better rep.

@billoppenheim Nobody wants to be watching/attending the Belmont Stakes card on Fourth of July weekend. These connections aren't skipping the Preakness because of 14 days, they're skipping because the Preakness means nothing to them

The best decisions arrive organically, from the constituents. When Bill Mott & Cherie DeVaux skip the Preakness because 3 races around 2 turns on the dirt in 5 weeks isn't right for their 3yo's it's time to pay attention. Start the 1st Saturday in May, end on July 4.

@GateToWire Add Colonial and NYRA

I get the sentimental pull but with the current horse population there just isn’t enough horses to have Monmouth, Delaware Park, Parx, CharlesTown, Laurel and Penn National all racing.

@RepoleStable Probably should have led with "free dinner and wine"

🚨 ‼️ Breaking Horse Racing Industry News!!!!! I’ve spent months asking The Jockey Club and its Stewards for ONE thing… get the real decisionmakers in a room and let’s come up with a REAL action plan to save this sport. My only motive here is to make racing better, fix the sport and help the sport grow again for everyone. I want to help every participant in the industry and protect the Horse. All I have asked for is REAL meeting with people empowered to make change. Instead, The Jockey Club offered me another one-on-one meeting with Everett Dobson. I said no. Then they offered a Zoom call where “maybe” some other Stewards would join. A Zoom call is supposed to fix what’s broken in Thoroughbred racing??? NO CHANCE. We need the leaders of this industry sitting face-to-face, committing to transformational change with real solutions and accountability!!!!! So Wednesday, my lawyers proposed a day-and-a-half IN PERSON meeting June 3-4 in Saratoga Springs during Belmont week. At a minimum, Chairman Everett Dobson and the lead Stewards Stuart Janney, Vinnie Viola, Bill Farish, Bill Lear, and Terry Finley must all be there. We should be talking about: • Aftercare • The SAFE Act • HISA • The collapsing foal crop • CAWs • Access to data • Declining owners, breeders & racetracks • California & Florida concerns • Lack of innovation • Board overlap conflicts • Transparency around TJC subsidiaries • Marketing & fan engagement and EVERYTHING else threatening this sport. I even offered to buy dinner and let them pick the wine!!!!! Mr. Dobson says he agrees with me on 90% of the issues. GREAT. Then let’s sit down and fix 90% of the problems. No more excuses!!!!! The Jockey Club just has to say YES or NO to this meeting. They have a deadline til the end of the day to accept my meeting invitation. If the answer is NO, then everybody in racing will CLEARLY know they have no interest or intention about saving this sport. I am trying!!!!! How do you think they will respond???