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Newsman, Horseman, Fan, Friend: Rest Peacefully, Ed O’Brien
Grief is an odd thing. An absolutely healthy reaction to profound loss, grief is shunned by too-many people in western culture. Misled people feel that, by holding in their grief–they come...
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Manhattan Dan, the Breeders’ Cup and the Power of Love
When the gate explodes open at 3:30PM on Friday (October 30th), 13 juvenile Thoroughbreds will burst onto the Kentucky grass and carry the hopes and dreams of many people on their young backs. A...
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New Gary Contessa Ad Says it All
Gary Contessa, Thoroughbred Trainer Making the dream a reality. (732) 620-4422 gcc1313@aol.com www.garycontessa.com Gary Contessa Television:...
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Gary Contessa Says, It’s Never Too Early to Learn about Kentucky Derby...
Well, it’s almost six months ’til the First Saturday in May (Kentucky Derby Day), so this is the perfect time for Gary Contessa to provide you with some education, new race fans. For after the...
View ArticleGary Contessa Buys Former Trainee Out of Auction, Encourages Establishment of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trainer Gary Contessa Buys Former Trainee Out of Auction, Encourages Establishment of Buy-Back Fund for Thoroughbreds Elmont, NY and Saratoga Springs, NY—When Thoroughbred...
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Gary Contessa’s Holiday Gift Giving Suggestion: Save Horses AND Your Mind…
…by shopping at The Exceller Fund’s Holiday Gift Shop. We’ll back up just a bit: ?you DO know that Gary is President of The Exceller Fund, right?? And you know that more than half the people on your...
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Gary Contessa’s Report from the (Arctic) Front: Keeneland January Sales 2016
The US Postal Service can’t claim sole domain over the phrase, “Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night…” –not in Lexington, Kentucky, anyway! Thoroughbred Trainer, Gary Contessa, checked into...
View ArticleRich Halvey Explains How Gary Contessa Represents the Trainers’ Conundrum
A horse races, then is tested and discovered to be positive for 2.3 billionths of a gram of cocaine. Two years ago. 2.3 billionths, as Mr. Halvey explains, is akin to, say, one snowflake on Mount...
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Manhattan Dan Wins Texas Glitter at Gulfstream; Looks Across the Pond for June
I’m sorry, I love it when I’m right. Ever since Gary Contessa introduced me to Manhattan Dan as a two-year-old, I knew the horse had It. You know “It”: that untouchable something that separates the...
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Turco Bravo Stymies His Opponents at Aqueduct–Again.
Today, Turco Bravo, trained by Gary Contessa, won the 1 1/8 mile, $125,000 Stymie Stakes at Aqueduct for the second year in a row. The handsome red-headed gelding son of Caesarion (IRE) and...
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When I Say, “Clinic,” You Say, “Gary!” (Trainer, Gary Contessa’s Saratoga...
The summer of 2015 was packed with racing action in Saratoga, and nowhere was there more action than in the imagination and educational commitment of Thoroughbred Trainer, Gary Contessa. On Belmont...
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Turco Bravo: Contessa’s Too-Cool Chilean Horse Flattens the Competition in...
Two months-and-one-day ago, Winning Move Stable’s Chilean tank, Turco Bravo, flattened his opponents in the Stymie Stakes at Aqueduct, the second time in two consecutive years. Trainer, Gary Contessa,...
View ArticleGary Contessa: Ultimately, Pedigree is MADE…a Good Lesson for Humans, too…
This piece is posted on Gary Contessa’s News page, on his website. This article is not news, however. It’s philosophy, actually. I know, I know–many people in horse racing are all caught up in...
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Seal Team Six Update: After a Long Journey, the Former Racehorse is...
Let’s recap, shall we? When Thoroughbred Trainer, Gary Contessa, bought and trained Seal Team Six for Wounded Warrior Stables, he had no idea that the handsome son of Distorted Humor might ever end...
View ArticleRunaway Lute Gets His Alpha on, Wins the Rockville Centre Stakes by 8 ¾
Brian Bohl of NYRA related the story of Runaway Lute’s victory in the Rockville Centre Stakes at Belmont (today) very well, so I’m not going to try to re-write that, and be transparent in my effort....
View ArticleSteven Crist, Will be Missed. (Retirement: Good for Him, Not so Much for Us.)
Today it was announced that one of horse racing’s rocks–a member of sport’s media without whom the sport might not be what it is, or heading where it can be–has retired from his beat. His beat, of...
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Gary Contessa, Jeremy’s Song and YES…it IS That Easy to Re-Home a Horse.
Well, this SWEET. On Monday eve (August 1st), Thoroughbred trainer, Gary Contessa posted this request, for a loving, forever home for one of his horses, Jeremy’s Song: “Ok, I have the biggest,...
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Gary Contessa’s Three August Clinics–If You Snooze, You Lose…
Ahhh, the lazy, overheated days of August. Days when it’s so hot-your blood doesn’t even have the energy to flow. It’s hard to do anything productive in August–even to think about doing anyhing...
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It Was 35 Years Ago Today…a Gary Contessa Flashback.
Yes, as the Beatles might have sung, if Lennon and McCartney were fans of our great sport, “It was 35 years ago today…”: on this date (August 7), in 1981, Gary Contessa posed with a winning horse,...
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Turco Bravo Wins Another Stakes Race, this One, the Birdstone in Saratoga.
“Turco Bravo is like a bottle of aging Cabernet. The older he gets, the better he gets. Smooth and mellow, yet very distinct.” Thoroughbred Trainer, Gary Contessa, used these thoughtful (and...
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