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Susan Cloos
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So much stress over self-definition.
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A poem, "Spring and Fall, to a young child" by Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Margaret are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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On Halloween 2024, Friend Ofthe Devil won at Aqueduct and Count Dracula won at Churchill.

As it turned out, foretelling.
The finish order of the 8th race at Aqueduct on Halloween 2024, with Friend Ofthe Devil the winner and More Therapy in second place. The finish order of the 9th race at Churchill Downs on Halloween 2024, with Count Dracula as the winner.
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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50 years ago today was also a Sunday, July 6, 1975. Belmont Park was host for the Foolish Pleasure – Ruffian match race.

That was the last time America truly cared about a horse race.
A grainy black and white photo taken a long distance away of the horse Ruffian standing on the Belmont Park track against a tall hedge. Jockey Jacinto Vasquez is standing in front of her, holding her reins. An ambulance is driving toward them.
July 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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From the Liberty Island message board on NetKeiba. This is an imperfect automatic translation of a post written in Japanese.

Liberty Island's "father" was Duramente, a champion racehorse and leading sire in Japan before his untimely death from colitis at the age of 9.
This is a post on NetKeiba from a fan regarding the euthanization of the filly Liberty Island after breaking down in the QEII at Sha Tin. This is an imperfect automated English translation of a comment written in Japanese. The post reads: I don't want to believe it, but the local Hong Kong newspaper reports are not fake. She was shocking from the age of 2, won the Triple Crown at the age of 3, challenged Equinox as a 3-year-old filly, and I will never forget how she ran desperately even after experiencing overseas and injury. To be honest, the only strong fillies I liked this much were Liberty and Gran Alegria. Gran Alegria and Liberty Island were my favorite horses. When I saw her last race, there were many comments saying she had passed her peak, and I believed that was not the case, but I thought she might have actually burned out, but I thought that I would see her come back in Hong Kong. I never thought it wouldn't turn out like this... There are several turning points in life, and I think there were times when we thought, "I'm going to stop pushing her so hard at that time, let's put her in breeding." Or, "I wish I had stopped her earlier in the race." It is true that if that had happened, she would have been saved, but no one is to blame, not even Liberty. The proof that Liberty ran hard will surely be engraved in the hearts of kind-hearted horse racing fans and Liberty fans for the rest of their lives. Please praise Liberty Island for doing their best until the end and not letting Kawada down. Thank you so much, Liberty Island. Please get along well with your father. Goodbye.
April 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM