Leisure and football work have been taking turns on our schedule all summer long (ahhh, the benefits of having my Baseball Guy, whose been crushing it with our totals-only service this summer). With August here, it is back to work full time and starting in a few days you’ll be benefiting from that work here.

You’ll want to be visiting frequently all month long as we get ready for some football, providing you with previews, injury situations, personnel changes, and the kind of updated information that the football annuals published in May could never possibly be accurate on.

Visit here frequently in August to benefit from our hard work.

I’ve heard a lot of my horse buddies complaining about the lack of quality in horse racing these days. New York tracks have tons of state bred races. Even at Saratoga, they have to card turf sprints (horses that don’t have enough speed for dirt sprints nor enough stamina for traditional turf routes) to get full fields. California tracks have a storm of 5 and 6-horse fields as well, even at Del Mar.

A quick look at the Wednesday Saratoga entries illustrates the problem. Races 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, are all maiden races. In other words, there will not be a horse that has won a race racing at Saratoga between 1:02 and 4:55 tomorrow afternoon. I realize that the 2-year old maiden special weight races can be strong up at the spa, but only Race 7 is one of those. Half of that sextet are claiming races.

If this is the premier race meet in America, what are the other tracks carding?