There’s a line from Gabriel Byrne that comes to mind when I think about the Thoroughbred business today: “How did we get here?” And I think about Sunday Silence. Because somewhere along the way, we seem to have forgotten one of the greatest lessons this game ever gave us. A good horse can come from anywhere. Any shape. Any size. Any pedigree. And sometimes the horse the experts dismiss is the very horse who winds up changing the world. I remember the first time I laid eyes on Sunday Silence....

Yup, there it is! We’ve been getting the whole spill from customers for weeks now. “When’s the Breeders’ Cup Package coming out?” “What’s it gonna include?” “Are we getting all the tracks?” “Is the Zoom included?” Well, folks, quit tapping your fingers and pacing around the living room like a horse in the paddock waiting for the jockey. THE BREEDERS’ CUP PACKAGE IS HERE! And we’re not talking about some little snack pack with two crackers and a slice of cheese. We’re talking about the...

Is there an outrage button on your phone? Because some horseplayers seem to have that son of a bitch on speed dial. They'll get outraged over things that make absolutely no sense, or things that don't mean a hill of beans to anybody with a functioning brain. I'm filing all of this under People Do Funny Shit. Think Girls Gone Wild, except instead of college girls taking their tops off, we've got grown adults losing their minds over horse racing. And unlike those videos, nobody's making any...