Our mission is to bring you horse racing information without ever having to go to the library!! Let us do the work for you.

I remember my first horse race. I was 11 years old and it was the 1987 Kentucky Derby with Alysheba blazing to victory. I was instantly hooked. I watched the Preakness and eagerly anticipated a Triple Crown winner, which by that time, I knew was a big deal. I watched the 1990 Breeders Cup races in complete agony. I tuned out horse racing for many years after that one, but ultimately I returned to the sport ready to take the good with the bad.

My uncle had Sports Illustrated magazines from 1973-1987, so I pored over all the magazines and learned as much as I could. I learned about the likes of the great Secretariat, Ruffian, Seattle Slew, Affirmed and Alydar and Spectacular Bid through the magazines. I never saw footage of their actual races until years later. As the years went on, I began to fill in as many holes as I could. The goal of this website is to help you fill in even more holes.

We handicap races, but not very well. We would much rather tell you about the great Damacus, Dr. Fager rivalry, than tell you who will win between Curlin and Street Sense. The members of this website do have some big scores to their credit including the superfecta for this years Kentucky Oaks, and the superfecta for this year’s Belmont. We will gladly posts our picks at no costs to you unlike some of these other sites, who want a fee for their hunches, because gambling is certainly not our primary objective.

The game is different today. Las Vegas and Atlantic City exist for gambling, and the sport is definitely in a decline of sorts. There are many reasons for this, and instead of sulking over the loss of the good old days, we will bring them back to life. Luckily we live in an age of youtube and the world wide web. We can view a race of the brilliant filly Dark Mirage, so we should be able to learn about her entire career and troubling end with as little effort. Her story is perhaps even more similar to the great newsmaker Barbaro, than Ruffian’s was, but you never hear her name mentioned in connection with the Derby winner’s horrific breakdown.

Long before there was a Barbaro there were other horses struck down in the prime of their life. While Ruffian will always remain my favorite animal of all time, there were many other racetrack tragedies that nowadays are largely forgotten, but in their day were no less significant.

There were wonderful rivalries. There were feuds between stables, trainers and jockeys, owners and trainers. There were long careers (unlike today). There were record setters. There were heart breakers. There were little known facts that we will strive to bring out in the open, that would be fit for a fiction novel, and a large one at that.

There were champions. There were tragedies. There were triumphs. They all combine to make a rich history that is American Thoroughbred Racing. The sport is not the same. Breeding syndicates for all intense purposes have made actual racing a secondary priority, and it is only in learning of the past, that we yearn for a change in the present because there are very few fans of the sport who feel that racing wasn’t better in the past. For everyone not sure of that fact, or for the fan who knows all too well and wants to revisit the great triumphs of horses like the mighty Forego, we proudly bring you…..Nostalgic Horse.

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