Timothy Pettine🏇

@HipicoColombia @HKJC_Racing @zpurton That's not a thing

@timpettine @HKJC_Racing @zpurton He’s Racing against the clock, he has no rivals 🚀

THE FREAAAAAAAK!! 🤯🤯🤯 World's best Ka Ying Rising sets ANOTHER 1200m track record (1m 07.10s) at Sha Tin, securing his 20th consecutive win with @zpurton for David Hayes... #FWDChampionsDay | #LoveRacing | #HKracing

@hunt80539 @HKJC_Racing @zpurton Fuck that ... he's 10-12 lengths behind American horses setting 21 and change for the first quarter ... and those horses can finish. Today he sat off the pace with an easy first quarter in 23. Those aren't the kind of quality animals he would catch in the US.

@timpettine @HKJC_Racing @zpurton He’s a better horse now after travelling to Aus for The Everest - and he smashed them there. He would beat any horse in the world on turf up to 1400m, and he would beat them anywhere

@Tinky47flat wtf?

To all you naysayers out there who only focus on the negatives of the game, there's "Lots of surgery content coming soon", from the "magical place" called Rood & Riddle! 😂

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So many Trump voters know they got it wrong. They feel the cognitive dissonance. But cognitive dissonance is a real bitch. It fights to vanquish the conflict as an intrusion, to keep you addicted to a faulty world view. For most, it creates rationalizations before resolutions.

@nickluck Win at Ascot or in the US then we can talk.

Are the handicappers still trying to find a 'marker horse'? Or can we just all agree he's one of the best there has ever been?

@IsItSwift Finger Lakes will survive all calamities.

@IsItSwift postive test

NBA doing some horse racing level stuff tonight.

How not to be average is a must watch speech by Curt Cignetti, Indiana University

A compelling graphic look at all the ways that Trump and his family and friends have been monetizing the White House in his second term to enrich themselves more than any presidential clan has ever done before. @LazaroGamio @amyswalk nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Used to be a proper country

I post this one every year! ⬇️

This guy just pulled off the smartest wealth transfer in modern history. But nobody understands what he actually did. Yesterday, Michael Dell announced $6.25 billion to fund "Trump Accounts" for 25 million American kids. Media's celebrating it as philanthropy. But it's not charity... It's billionaires weaponizing government infrastructure. Here's what happened: Trump signed a law creating investment accounts for kids under 18. Kids born 2025-2028 get $1,000 from Treasury. Parents add $5,000/year tax-deferred. Money goes into S&P 500. Standard program? Wrong. The loophole: "Qualifying organizations may make additional contributions that do NOT count toward the $5,000 limit." Unlimited money can flow in. Dell drops $6.25 billion for $250 deposits to 25 million kids in zip codes under $150k income. The genius part: Dell doesn't build a foundation, track recipients, manage investments, or handle taxes. Treasury does ALL of it. One check. Government does the work. Brad Gerstner: "This is a unique platform created by government that can unlock major giving." First time billionaires use FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE to distribute wealth. Zero overhead. The compounding: $250 at age 10 → $8,000 by age 50 Add $100/year from parents → $72,000 Dell's $250 becomes a $72k nest egg. He gets full credit. The contrarian take: Dell's net worth: $148 billion. Lifetime giving before this: $2.9 billion. This move: $6.25 billion. He DOUBLED his entire lifetime philanthropy in one transaction. Why? Before this, giving 25 million kids money cost $1-2 billion in overhead. Now government does it free. Other billionaires are watching too: Uber, Zillow, Nvidia, Salesforce already committed to employees' kids. This is the playbook now. But what people miss? Accounts are tax-deferred, not tax-free. Withdrawals get taxed when kids turn 18. Government loans money, gets paid back decades later through taxes. Dell's stock jumped 4% since announcement. $148B → $154B net worth. He gained $6B in market value from a $6.25B donation. Net neutral. Plus "largest commitment to US children" PR. But Dell didn't invent this. Brad Gerstner spent 4 years lobbying. Dell waited until the infrastructure was built, dropped $6.25B, and claimed the narrative. Why build rails when government does it? What happens next: Within 5 years, $100+ billion will flow into these accounts from other billionaires. This becomes the primary vehicle for billionaire philanthropy. Not because it's the most effective. Because it's the EASIEST. Write one check. Government does the rest. For entrepreneurs watching this: The lesson isn't about charity. It's about INFRASTRUCTURE. Dell hijacked an existing system and scaled instantly. That's how you move $6.25 billion in 24 hours. Don't build rails. Find existing rails and run your train. The reality: $250 doesn't solve poverty. But it gets 25 million families comfortable with investing and compounding. 75% of zip codes qualify. Including middle-class families who don't need it. Which means this is either: The smartest philanthropic innovation in decades. Or the most sophisticated PR play ever. Time will tell which one it is. But one thing's certain... Michael Dell just changed the game for how billionaires give money away. And it all happened because the government built the infrastructure first.

@steelers Happy Halloween from Singapore

@DRFLivingston @DailyRacingForm @claibornefarm One of the wins he was parked way outside...pretty impressive feat

LURE (Danzig-Endear, by Alydar) won back-to-back runnings of the Breeders' Cup Mile, including a powerful score in the 1993 renewal at Santa Anita. Favored at 1.30-1, the Claiborne Farm homebred paid 4.60. He and partner Mike Smith also won the 1992 Mile, run at Gulfstream Park.

@b_hernandezjr Cheering you on for a quick recovery Brian!

I had a successful surgery today to stabilize my ribs. I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers! The doctors and nurses here at UofL have been absolutely fantastic. Hopefully one step closer to going home. Many thanks 🙏

@SwiftHitter I’ll give you this if he can beat older horses. This 3 year old crop appears suspect - who did he beat yesterday? American Pharoah wins Travers if Baffert doesn’t blow his race the day before showing him off in front of the fans. He was a good one.

Source: nature.com/articles/s4422…