Blog Author's Easy Grand

We’re all busy people, and when we get a few moments to visit our favorite blogs we ordinarily don’t have time to read long posts. We want to get into a blog, zip through it and get out. We don’t have time for a thousand words. However, a blog author can cheat a bit by compacting those thousand words into a picture. The thousand words above are from the soggy Friday races at the 2007 Breeders Cup where, in the Filly & Mare Sprint, jockey Elvis Trujillo rides Maryfield to victory at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.

(PHOTO: AFP/Timothy A Clary)

Good Mudders Needed For Breeders'

The 24th Breeders' Cup World Championships begin Friday at Oceanport, N.J., and forecasts for the two-day event call for an 80 percent chance or precipitation today and 100 percent on Saturday. Temperatures on both days will vary from the low to the high 60s. According to a story in Friday's New York Post, rain has fallen on the Breeders' Cup only once, and that was nearly 20 years ago (1988) at Churchill Downs. That's all I have to say about that. Enjoy the races.