Bill Young Jr. is a nice man - quiet, smart, private to the point of being very shy, honest and practical. On June 9, he shocked the Thoroughbred world with the announcement that he was dispersing almost all of the horses who are owned by Overbrook Farm, which had become one of the major success stories in the U.S. Thoroughbred business over the past quarter century.
By Arnold Kirkpatrick (16 July 2009 - Issue Number: 13)
Happy New Year. 2008 is gone and thank God for that!Last fall, we were ravaged by a perfect storm of a justifiable collapse of confidence in the US economy, accompanied by atrocious results at our major sales, compounded by the anticipation of sales in 2009, where breeders will be selling yearlings and weanlings conceived and born at 2007 and 2008 prices.
Arnold Kirkpatrick (20 January 2009 - Issue Number: 11)
When
Pope Gregory I consolidated the eight 'evil thoughts'of the 4th
Century Christian monk Evagrius Ponticus into the Seven Deadly Sins, he
perpetuated what I believe may be one of the classic errors of all times
by excluding "Arrogance"from the list. In my opinion, "Arrogance"
should not only be on the list, it should be .
Arnold Kirkpatrick (11 December 2008 - Issue Number: 9)
The Members of Congress were clearly bored and frustrated.One
commented, The six members of this panel can't even agree on what to do;
why should you expect us to believe that racing can handle this problem
on its own? Another yawned.
Arnold Kirkpatrick (14 October 2008 - Issue Number: 10)
