Aussie Craig "Buster" Mottram won the Pre Classic 2 mile this weekend in a meet record 8:03.5. Apparently, Buster has a certain anatomical secret which allows for such quick running, and which he mentions during the interview at the end of the race.
Actually, I'm a little surprised that it didn't slow him down. Matt Tegenkamp came in third in an American best 8:07.07. Full results may be found here.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
tags: Big Brown, horseracing, Triple Crown, streaming video
Big Brown fights with his jockey, Kent Desormeaux, in the stretch before he crosses the finish line last in the 140th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. on Saturday, June 7, 2008.
Image: Chang W. Lee, NYTimes.
Big Brown was…
Apologies for the lack of posts the past few days - the workload at school has been very high for both of us this week. In honour of this weekend's Boston Marathon, below is an interview I conducted last year with former Boston Marathon Champion and prolific writer Amby Burfoot. Amby is a…
As mentioned briefly here and on Twitter, I spent the past week at the Renaissance Weekend in Charleston, SC. This is a biggish smart-people festival, running for 30-odd years now, bringing together a wide array of people from politics, finance, science, and the arts. Bill Phillips has been going…
[Guest post by John Mashey]
This is a second follow-up to the original falsification, flat-earth maps and dog astrology. Flat-earth is discussed here in More use and abuse of IPCC 1990 fig 7.1(c). This post explores the other topic:
David Deming, "dog astrology journal" and then Jon Overpeck…