What happened to Haskin's derby writings on bloodhorse?

[Indian Charlie]

He seems to have been vacuumed out of bloodhorse!

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

He seems to have been vacuumed out of bloodhorse!

Left for South American trip. Back in a couple weeks.

[Thunder Gulch]

I enjoyed him through the years, but do we really need him to rave about 25 maiden winners in January?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Thunder Gulch

I enjoyed him through the years, but do we really need him to rave about 25 maiden winners in January?

It can be a good way to get on the bandwagon of a horse before it becomes a star which is fun for a lot of people. I enjoy his early Triple Crown coverage probably more than anything else he writes. The only problem I ever have with his writing is he can sometimes be a little superlative in his praise. You could read one of his columns and think you have ten future Secretariats on the way.

[my miss storm cat]

It took me a long time to appreciate Hemingway... I didn't understand till years after i first read him that the beauty was in the simplicity of his words. Every line was pure and true.

That's kinda how I feel about Haskin.

He exudes a kind of passion and enthusiasm, but he never hits you over the head with it, never talks down to his audience. He tells you how he see it all, makes his points, backs them up and always stays within a certain style...

His piece after Barbaro died was short, but it was perfect. You could feel what he was feeling and like any art form, to me anyway, the point is to move people.

I had always enjoyed his work but that piece... that piece was beautiful.

His Triple Crown stuff? No problem here with the potential for 10 Secretariats. I'd rather read someone who is excited about the game than the sometimes-dry and generic writers elsewhere.

(Geez, I sound like I'm on his payroll or something).

Jesustapdancingchrist, mmsc.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

Jesustapdancingchrist, mmsc.

Shoulda just said I like him, huh?

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Shoulda just said I like him, huh?

(I do agree with you though)

[blackthroatedwind]

Hemingway and Haskin?

Well, Hemingway did write a famous book about a gelding.

Haskin constantly gets drunk,
visits as many bars in Europe as
he can, and then is known as a
man's man after he kills himself?

or just the drunken passion part...

The Sun Also Rises was... uhmmm... redundantly depressing.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Hemingway and Haskin?

Well, Hemingway did write a famous book about a gelding.

Clubhouse leader for Post of the Year.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Hemingway and Haskin?

Yeah.

Totally different subject matter, but...

If there is a flaw in nature’s power of healing, it is that it cannot be applied to the Thoroughbred, to whom the words stationary and prone do not co-exist

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

... the rhythm is similar.


Throughout the grandstand, the disciplined Pletcher machine unraveled in a burst of emotion during the stretch run. Burdened with an 0-for-28 record in Triple Crown races, Pletcher unleashed a flurry of eight short jabs into an invisible opponent, while urging on his filly: “Come on, baby; come on, baby,” he pleaded. As she crossed the finish line, he jumped up, flinging his fist in the air, and then kissed his wife Tracy, knocking her hat off.


There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is ****. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Isn't it?

The preps are over and the journey to Jersey begins. This past weekend’s stakes orgy did not measure up to the stirring stretch battles and top-class performances we saw the previous week. While there were some big efforts and exciting finishes, it was not a good weekend for favorites, with several big-name stars and division leaders going down to defeat.


Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.


Well it is to me.

(Time for my medication now?)

[horseofcourse]

Every written word is a victory over death.

(or something like that I read once!!)

..yes...even on derbytrail.

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Hemingway and Haskin?

Well, Hemingway did write a famous book about a gelding.

"Hemingway and Haskin?"

why not both?

always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. that will teach you to keep your dappled well muscled mouth shut.

-ernesteve haskinway

the world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. but those that will not break it kills. it kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave and the very well dappled impartially. if you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

-ernesteve haskinway

call it fate. call it kismet. whatever title you prefer, happieness in intelligent people is the rarest thing i know.

-ernesteve haskinway.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Hemingway and Haskin?

Well, Hemingway did write a famous book about a gelding.

love hemingway, but damn that man hated a happy ending.

well, hemingway and haskin in a thread....whatdyaknow.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Haskin constantly gets drunk,
visits as many bars in Europe as
he can, and then is known as a
man's man after he kills himself?

or just the drunken passion part...

The Sun Also Rises was... uhmmm... redundantly depressing.

for whom the bell tolls is my fave. a moveable feast is good too. heck, they're all good. it's like trying to decide if you like tom sawyer or huck finn better...

Originally Posted by Danzig

for whom the bell tolls is my fave. a moveable feast is good too. heck, they're all good. it's like trying to decide if you like tom sawyer or huck finn better...

Tom Sawyer.

by Rush

A modern-day warrior
Mean mean stride,
Todays tom sawyer
Mean mean pride.

DFF DFF (slight rest) DFF DFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
DFF DFF (slight rest) DFF DFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

above with air guitar...

Hemingway would have never jammed
with an air guitar. He would have smacked
me over the head with a bottle of empty
spirits if he caught me trying.

Old Man And The Sea if I had to vote.

I like epic battles between man and fish.
George Bush thinks man and fish can
coexist peacefully. He is not a Hemingway
man.

[RolloTomasi]

Instead of banning future offending posters from this board, I suggest limiting their access to all threads save this one.

They'll gladly fall on their own swords.

I thought this thread was going to bury Haskin, not praise him.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Instead of banning future offending posters from this board, I suggest limiting their access to all threads save this one.

They'll gladly fall on their own swords.

I thought this thread was going to bury Haskin, not praise him.

Guess this means you don't wanna hear which poet you remind me of, huh?