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2 days ago
- Sport
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Malibu, Met Mile Winner Raging Torrent Retired
Malibu, Met Mile Winner Raging Torrent Retired originally appeared on Paulick Report. Raging Torrent two-time Grade 1 winner of the Malibu Stakes and Metropolitan Mile Handicap along with this year's Grade 2 Godolphin Mile, has been retired because of a suspensory injury to his left foreleg. Craig Dado, managing partner of Great Friends Stable, which co-owns the 4-year-old son of Maximus Mischief with Yuesheng Zhang's Yulong Investments, confirmed the news on Mike Willman's Thoroughbred Los Angeles radio show after it was first reported by Daily Racing Form Saturday night. Dado told Willman that stud plans have not been finalized, but that 'we're pretty far down the line with Lane's End right now. A couple more things need to be worked out, but would speculate that's where he'll be.' After being freshened following his victory over dual Grade 1 winner Fierceness in the Met Mile at Saratoga on June 7, Raging Torrent was set to begin serious preparation to defend his title in the Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Stakes at Del Mar. O'Neill said some swelling was detected and diagnostics indicated damage to the suspensory ligament. 'We were so bummed,' O'Neill told the Paulick Report. 'He was a brilliant, brilliant horse who had sprinter speed but the heart and competitiveness and stamina of a route horse.' Placed in graded stakes at 2, Raging Torrent won seven of 14 starts, with $1,797,400 earnings. He won six of his final seven starts, including two Grade 1 events that have proven to be stallion-making races, the Malibu at Santa Anita and the Met Mile, run the last two years at Saratoga while Belmont Park is being rebuilt. From the initial crop of the Into Mischief stallion Maximus Mischief – second to Mitole in the 2023 first-crop sire list – Raging Torrent was bred in Kentucky by Rodney J. Winkler and Alfonso Mazzetti. Produced from the Violence mare, Violent Wave, the colt raced initially for Mark Davis, who purchased him for $75,000 at the 2023 OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in training, with Great Friends taking a minority interest in the horse. Davis sold his share to Zhang following Raging Torrent's Malibu victory Dec. 26. This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jul 20, 2025, where it first appeared.
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4 days ago
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Repole Stables' Mindframe, Fierceness Work Toward Saratoga Grade 1s
Repole Stables' Mindframe, Fierceness Work Toward Saratoga Grade 1s originally appeared on Paulick Report. Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables' Mindframe, the last-out Grade 1 Stephen Foster-winner on June 28 at Churchill Downs, completed his first breeze back when covering a half-mile in 52.46 seconds on Friday, July 18, over the main track at Saratoga Race by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, the 4-year-old Constitution dark bay currently leads the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll following wins in the nine-furlong Stephen Foster and the seven-furlong G1 Churchill Downs on May 3. Mindframe is 3-for-3 this year, also capturing the G2 Gulfstream Park Mile in March, among his 7-5-2-0 lifetime record with over $1.8 million in earnings.'We were just looking to get an easy half in, he went by himself,' Pletcher said of Friday's work. 'He does whatever you ask him to do. He is cool that way. He goes easy if you want him to go easy, fast if you want him to go fast.' On Aug. 2, Saratoga hosts the G1, $1 million Whitney, a nine-furlong main track test for older horses, offering a 'Win and You're In' berth to the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic in November at Del Mar. The question for Pletcher has been whether or not Mindframe could run there alongside Fierceness, who has been reported to be targeting the race for Repole Stable, Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor, and Mrs. John Magnier.'I've got to gather up with the connections. We are still a couple weeks away, but he is a fit horse coming out of the Foster win. We don't have to do a lot with him if we did decide to run in the Whitney,' Pletcher if he'd like running Mindframe and Fierceness against each other in the Whitney, Pletcher said, 'Ideally, no. We'd split them up, so if we decide to wait for the [G1] Jockey Club Gold Cup with him [Mindframe], that would be one way of splitting them up.'The G1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, a 10-furlong 'Win and You're In' event for the Breeders' Cup Classic, is run on Aug. 31 at the Spa.'Fierceness hasn't run since the Met Mile, so we have always been pointing him towards the Whitney,' Pletcher said. Fierceness worked Friday over the main track, covering five furlongs in 1:01.70 in company with Dreamlike.'He worked terrific today. He is giving us every indication he is on target for it [the Whitney],' said Pletcher. 'I'd say if he stays that way, that would probably give us a good reason to wait a little longer on Mindframe and give him a little extra time off a huge effort shipping to Churchill.' Fierceness, the multiple G1-winning 4-year-old City of Light colt and the 2023 Champion 2-Year-Old Male, last ran second in the one-mile G1 Metropolitan Handicap here after a track-record setting win in the 1 1/16-mile G2 Alysheba on May 2 at Churchill Downs.'I thought he worked terrific, like he always does, he finished up nicely and put in a huge gallop out, moving great, doing everything you'd like to see,' Pletcher has earned in excess of $4.5 million through an 11-6-2-1 record, including a head score over subsequent Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna in the G1, $1.25 million DraftKings Travers in August here. This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared.
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08-07-2025
- Automotive
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Del Mar passes new e-bike rules
DEL MAR, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The City of Del Mar has finalized its e-bike regulations, banning e-bikes from sidewalk riding and mandating helmets for e-bikers. 'It's a good start, but it's not enough,' said Don Mosier a former city councilman from Del Mar. Mosier says when it comes to e-bikes, he's seen a lot of dangerous riding. 'Get themselves hurt or run into an elderly pedestrian. There's no good outcome the way things are now,' Mosier said. The city passed the ordinance to start to rein in some of the wilder behavior from E-bikers 'We want pedestrians to be safe, and we want people driving cars to be safe, because God forbid someone they hit anybody, right, so I think it is a win-win for everybody and most importantly it's safety for children and that's my priority,' said Tracy Martinez, the deputy mayor of Del Mar. However, not all are happy about the new ordinance requiring e-bikes to stay off the sidewalk. Eli Gallagher says sometimes the sidewalk can be a little escape in traffic. The final ordinance brings Del Mar's rules in line with Encinitas and Solana Beach. 'It also makes it easier for riders to understand that the three coastal cities are going to abide by the same rules and regulations,' Martinez said. The new ordinance goes into effect in 30 days. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Washington Post
02-07-2025
- Automotive
- Washington Post
He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don't
DEL MAR, Calif. — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola's research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was locked in a 1970s corporate battle to invent the portable phone . Cooper rejected AT&T's wager on the car phone, betting that America wanted to feel like Dick Tracy, armed with 'a device that was an extension of you, that made you reachable everywhere.'
The National
29-06-2025
- Politics
- The National
Telling of Neil MacCormick's life best described as joyful challenge
The 10 chapters and more than 500 pages may seem a daunting challenge. But I experienced it as a joyful one, reading of an old friend through the eyes of an author who brought fresh insights to Neil's character. I say joyful challenge, as there were many occasions where I laughed at some of the tales told. In 1960, Neil had been a hugely effective editor of the Glasgow University student newspaper. At the end of his period as editor, Maksymilian Del Mar reveals 'the incoming editors, wondering what to give him as a token of thanks, thought of 'A plasticine Stone of Destiny that he can steal whenever he wants to''. Neil's father, 'King John' MacCormick, was central to the Stone of Destiny story and the Scottish Covenant. READ MORE: Glastonbury Festival organisers respond after Bob Vylan's Israeli military chants Although there are a very small number of historical inaccuracies in the book, none affect the substance of the arguments presented. My memories of Neil include his love of debate and Scottish culture. He would have been in his element over a glass of claret discussing philosophical questions with such enlightenment characters as David Hume and Adam Smith. The book dwells on his passionate belief in enlightened debate, at one point quoting Neil's address to new law students: 'There is no fanaticism worse than the fanaticism of a closed mind … No-one's opinion is sacrosanct, not free from the need to be tested and set in competition against opposing opinions. An opinion not tempered in the heat of fair argument is rarely worth holding, and never known to be.' If only politics today engaged in fair and respectful arguments. The chapter A Democratic Intellect reflects the importance to Neil of George Davie's The Democratic Intellect. As Del Mar argues, 'Davie's book clearly touched a nerve, inspiring a generation to reflect on what was lost in Scotland and what was unique about the Scottish approach to philosophy and its education'. The connection of philosophy with democracy was inevitably part of the character of Neil. He read widely, and his lifelong interest in philosophical debate not only shaped Neil's approach to politics but was central to his character development too. Of particular interest to myself was the role Neil played in the difficult period of the 1980s. He was both a wise peacemaker – being central to enabling members of the '79 group to come back within the party fold – and also a wise counsellor promoting a philosophy of good government. Del Mar's book helps us understand more clearly how Neil navigated those troubled times. Of personal satisfaction are the sections in the book where my great friend Allan Macartney is shown to have worked so effectively with Neil. Allan died far too young when an MEP, and would have been delighted to see Neil elected in 1999. Considering Neil MacCormick as legal theorist, Del Mar has managed the no-easy feat of making it interesting and understandable to myself. However, like many, I have not allowed my lack of sophistication in the law to stop me from pontificating on matters such as sovereignty. In this regard, Neil sparked controversy over his conceptions of post-sovereignty and writing beyond the sovereign state. But to demonstrate how Neil was able to communicate complex ideas amusingly, Del Mar quotes him thus: 'We must not envisage sovereignty as the object of some zero-sum game, such that the moment X loses it, Y necessarily has it. Let us think of it rather more as of virginity, which can in at least some circumstances be lost to the general satisfaction without anybody else gaining it.' This has been a mere glimpse of a fascinating book. Like Del Mar, I leave the final words to Neil, whose quote seems to me to express much of his character and life. (Image: NQ) 'Practical reasoning in morality certainly concerns my plans for myself, but it even more saliently raises the issue of the calls other people have to make on me. What about my children, my spouse, my friends, my colleagues, my employer, my fellow citizens and indeed all of my fellow human beings with all their sufferings? How do they figure in my plans? More urgently, how should they? Isn't that the very essence of every moral problem? What do we owe others? How do we respond to them?' Neil MacCormick: A Life In Politics, Philosophy And Law by Maksymilian Del Mar Published by Cambridge University Press, 2025
