Evan Hammonds

@LNJFoxwoods @RubenFanDuelTV @bradcoxracing @Alex_Solis_II @litt_jason @MadisonScott157 Not sure I’ve ever seen (live) a horse run as fast as she did in the stretch

7 YEARS AGO TODAY WE WITNESSED A BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE BY COVFEFE IN THE MISS PREAKNESS. SHE BROKE THE TRACK RECORD IN 1:07.70💨 👀 AN UNBELIEVABLE TALENT💙💛🏆 @bradcoxracing @Alex_Solis_II @litt_jason @MadisonScott157

Today’s mantra …

@EJXD2 @ByPatForde shopping at Laurel?

This is some gift shoppe!

Who did this? - 😭 😭 😭

@PeterBerryPicks Get well Peter!

Take out for @LaurelPark race track. It’s really embarrassing and gross. One of main reasons I never play this dump unless in a contest. Like just put out a message saying we hate horse players go home. Jesus man

@EJXD2 @KentuckyDerby @FairmountPk @ClubHawthorne @mtrgaming @MonmouthPark Overall handle for the week down 11% from last year?

Handle for the week following the @KentuckyDerby shows we're officially in @FairmountPk handles more than @ClubHawthorne territory. Bettors don't seem to care about @mtrgaming historically bad morning line. @MonmouthPark made most of opening weekend w/ less races.

@thestaggieman @AndrewChampagne ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

While everyone is complaining about the TC and the derby winner… The TC is the least of our concerns for horse racing. How about we talk about the 50% reduction in foals? The lack of horses running past 3? Tracks disappearing yearly? Gamblers dealing with CAWs?

@EJXD2 @WilliamDenzik Might be surprised - where’s Orb these days?

@WilliamDenzik Doubt Daisy Phipps is charmed by $20M

Put a 20 million dollar bonus on winning the Triple Crown and we’ll see how many owners and trainers put the horse first. If they want the Triple Crown to continue, then owners need to be paid to sacrifice a horse’s career. Money talks, especially in this industry.

@KennyRiceSports The Blue Grass, Ark Derby, Santa Anita Derby, Florida Derby, Wood, and Louisiana Derby were moved years two decades ago to accommodate horsemen/today’s Thoroughbred with more time. So…why not the Preakness / Belmont? Only thing getting in the way is logic.

Becoming a tradition. #GoldenTempo will not run in the #Preakness A new tradition is needed. Move the #Preakness at least a week. Force #Belmont to concede For those who say what about the #TripleCrown it won’t be the same? It already isn’t the same #Adapt #Succeed

@KennyRiceSports It’s called evolution - adapt or die - been around for a few million years and has proven pretty successful

@RubenFanDuelTV Kentucky Oaks Day … and it’s not even close

Quick everyone: What is the 2nd biggest day of 🏇wagering handle each year?

@sheabridge143 @KySportsRadio You work under Devaux’ shed row?

@KySportsRadio Terrible for the game!! The horse is fine!!

Golden Tempo skipping the Preakness likely means they have to change the schedule Two years in a row of not having the Derby winner just means the event has to change

@KySportsRadio 3 out of last 5 years is a pattern…

As the late Harvey Pack would say, Golden tempo is going to ‘El Paso’ @PreaknessStakes

UK Athletics has literally given no statements to the fans since the end of Basketball except giving (and taking away) a $5 million golden parachute to the AD and that same AD calling anyone criticizing it, “Knuckleheads” Read the room…say something to your Fanbase

@stoolpresidente @EJXD2 Oaks Day program was stronger top to bottom, so I can see that being up 18% …

So Derby Day handle was down but Oaks day was way up? Interesting.

For those who said it can’t happen on big days, see below. Amazing that NBC picked up on it immediately.

@dashmeshstud @KentuckyDerby Wow - How many top horses trace to Blitey?

Easy to say after the fact but that is a proper @KentuckyDerby winner’s pedigree. Golden Tempo is a seventh generation homebred for the Phipps family whose connection with the family began when they acquired his Sixth dam Lady Pitt who was bred by Florida breeding legend, Harry T. Mangurian. In today’s commercial breeding world especially in USA its refreshing to see such a loaded pedigree, the broodmare sires; Bernadini, El Prado,Seeking The Gold, Nijinsky II all scream CLASSIC! Another recent superstar from this clan is Flightline. As for an Indian connection to this family, the third dam Dancinginmydreams’s Gr.1 winning son Dancing Forever (Rahy) stood at Hazara Stud with moderate success. The Phipps family isn’t as active as they used to be under Ogden and Dinny Phipps but they’d be the closest thing stateside to a Bloodstock empire over generations akin to the @AgaKhanStuds, Wertheimers, Niarchos family, Wildensteins and the like. Great to see super-sire; Curlin get his first @KentuckyDerby winner too