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A pair of Florida stallions took turns in the spotlight at Gulfstream Park this weekend. Pomeroy's son Flashpoint won the Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes impressively by 6 1/2 lengths from the Trippi colt Travelin Man. And the Trippi filly R Heat Lightning won the G2 Davona Dale Stakes by 7 1/4 lengths from the Tapit filly Dancinginherdreams, with the Pomeroy filly Pomeroys Pistol in third.
Trippi's son Gourmet Dinner was a good second in the G2 Fountain of Youth behind Soldat (a son of the Danzig stallion War Front, whose other son, The Factor, won the San Vicente last weekend at Santa Anita).
Pomeroy (by the Danzig stallion Boundary) has first-crop 3-year-olds this year, like War Front. They are part of a deep and successful group of young sires that also includes last year's freshman sire leader Congrats (also formerly in Florida and now in Kentucky at Vinery) and Preakness winner and champion Bernardini. The latter was selected as the first mate for Horse of the Year Zenyatta and is the sire of Fountain of Youth third To Honor and Serve.
As a racehorse, Pomeroy was a sprinting fool, much like his sire Boundary, and the blaze-faced Pomeroy won the G1 Forego and King's Bishop, as well as the G2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at his beloved Saratoga.
Retired to stud in Florida, the medium-sized and powerfully made Pomeroy has been popular with breeders and buyers.
From his earliest returns at stud, however, he wasn't the hottest sire on the block. As a powerful horse with tons of speed, breeders expected the stallion's stock to race and win early and often. But the Pomeroys seemed to surprise everyone by acting like they wanted a little time, and some of them may also want a bit more distance than their sire did.
Purely on pedigree, there was no reason for Pomeroy to prefer sprinting. His sire Boundary was by Danzig, who got more milers than pure sprinters, and was out of a Damascus mare, which would tend to give a mile or more. Then Pomeroy is out of a mare by Seeking the Gold, one of the best sons of Mr. Prospector for getting quality performers at a mile and up.
But then, if breeding worked by a set formula, we would not have half the fun. The sophistication required for breeding with consistent success and the variability of results obtained by breeders with great experience or little are reasons for great humility. But when a mating works, what greater elation is there?
Surely among the most elated at present are the South African breeders who purchased Trippi in July 2008. Johann and Gaynor Rupert bought the handsome bay son of End Sweep to stand at their L'Ormarins Stud. The Ruperts purchased Trippi from a partnership that had stood the horse for his entire career at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., and exported Trippi to the Southern Hemisphere.
The final Northern Hemisphere crop by Trippi are now 2-year-olds, and the stallion has been on fire. R Heat Lightning won the G1 Spinaway and ran second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies last year, and Gourmet Dinner has been a model of consistency.
Part of the reason for consistency in a sire's production is the quality of his mares. Year after year, stallion managers have to work to maintain the quality of their stallions' books, and the success of that is seen in the stallions' progeny on the track.
Trippi had made a name for himself as a leading stallion in Florida at the time of his sale, standing for $12,500, and Pomeroy was one of the most popular young sires in the state when he retired.
As he had done with Congrats, Brent Fernung brought Pomeroy to Florida, where the horse initially stood at Cloverleaf Farms, then moved to Vinery Florida after Cloverleaf closed its operations in Florida.
Although Pomeroy was already doing well with his book this year, a Vinery representative confirmed that the stallion's book doubled to more than 120 mares over the weekend.
One of the good mares that Fernung enlisted for Pomeroy's first book was the stakes winner Two Punch Lil (by Two Punch). A big, ruggedly made gray mare, Two Punch Lil was already the dam of stakes winner Uncle Sam Lee and a stakes-placed runner when breeder Silverleaf Farms sent her to Pomeroy.
The resulting colt was Flashpoint, who was nice enough as a short yearling to fetch $115,000 at the Keeneland January sale in 2009. Just two months earlier, his dam had gone through the Keeneland November sale, barren to Pomeroy. She brought $1,200. For her new owners, the mare has a yearling filly by Congaree.


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The ex-husband of a Florida nurse found dead Thursday in a sugarcane field died from a drug overdose in Miami, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.
Albert Lambert was a top suspect in the the murder of Kimberly Lindsey and was going to be served a warrant on murder charges, authorities said Sunday. Lindsey's blood was found on his clothing, authorities told The Palm Beach Post.
"The bottom line is we were going to charge him with first-degree murder, no doubt," Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.
Authorities said two people carried the body of Lambert, 52, out of a Miami home early Saturday morning. One was a man and authorities said they believe the other was Lambert's sister, who owns the home at 2101 Coral Gate Drive. Investigators who were watching Lambert around the clock were nearby.
"They saw a male and female coming out of the residence, struggling to carry a body wrapped up in a sheet. It was pretty obvious to them what was going on, two people removing a body," Bradshaw said at a news conference.
Lindsey was a nurse at Bak Middle School of the Arts. The school reported her missing early last week. Days later, Lindsey's body was found by maintenance workers in a Hendry County field.
A probable cause affidavit stated that Lindsey's body was found headless, with fingerprints removed and a gunshot wound to the chest. A cause of death has not been released.
Lambert was a physician in Broward. On Thursday he and his sister were seen leaving his Jupiter condo, with Lambert carrying clothes and a sports bag, the affidavit said. Lambert had been staying in Miami with his sister.
Lindsey was last seen last weekend, when she returned from a trip to Florida's west coast. She had texted her daughter that she was home safe after visiting her other daughter. The next morning, Lindsey never came into work.
According to the sheriff's office, there had been a violent confrontation at Lindsey's Palm Beach Gardens home, "after which the body was removed and taken to the remote area where it was discovered."
"I never saw or even heard anything that sounded like that," said Jim White, who lives across the street from Lindsey's home. "It's hard to think that something like that happened so close and I was right here."
Smears of blood were found throughout Lindsey's home the day she was reported missing, according to the affidavit. Her bed was missing the sheets and comforter, officials said.
Blood was also found in the trunk of the car driven by Lindsey and Lambert's youngest daughter, who was staying with her father for the weekend, officials said. The area of the blood was consistent with a body being placed in the trunk and the trunk door pushing down on it, according to deputies.
Lindsey's coworker Roberta Azrak said the nurse was going through a difficult divorce from her husband, which her attorney confirmed. Their dissolution of marriage was finalized in November of 2012 but they were still going through court hearings over alimony and child support, according to Palm Beach County authorities.
Those hearings over alimony and child support were messy, according to the affidavit. Lambert allegedly told a presiding judge that he would "disappear or go to jail" before he paid anything.
"He overdosed on narcotics and that's going to put this case as closed. There is no doubt he committed this crime," Bradshaw said of Lambert.
The couple had three daughters, ages 16, 18 and 20.
"The tragedy here is not only do these kids not have a mother, now they don't have a father. And at the end of the day, that's the real tragedy," the sheriff said.
Friends and family of Lindsey came together Thursday to make a public plea for tips that would lead to her return. More than a hundred people gathered for a vigil at dusk Friday, still clinging for hope before the positive identification was made.
Bak officials told The Palm Beach Post Sunday they will rename the clinic at the West Palm Beach school in Lindsey's memory. Grief counselors will be at the school Monday to "help both children and adults cope with this senseless act of violence and loss of life," Principal Sally Rozanski wrote in a letter to parents.
"Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the entire family," Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent Wayne Gent said Saturday. "This is such a tragic event for the school and community."
The memorial service for Kimberly Lindsey will be held on Nov. 6 at 3 p.m. at Christ Fellowship South Campus on Northlake Boulevard.
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Viewers of the ALDS Game 3 watching from home were subjected to a bombardment of ads for the new TNT show Men of a Certain Age. The comedy's premise involves men in their forties coping with the realities (ear hair? Viagra? "going" problems?) of middle age. Undoubtedly, this title could apply to Mariano Rivera as well. Rivera, who is credited with being 39 years of age with the big birthday in November, apparently never got the message that life and your body is supposed to slow down as four decades tick away. Since turning 35, Rivera had worked 361.2 innings, struck out 358 and posted an ERA of 1.89 while saving 190 games.
Yet, there he was, bags accumulating under his eyes like Yankee championships he had helped cultivate in his 15 seasons in pinstripes, ready to terminate the Minnesota Twins 2009 season and with it, the lights of the Metrodome that glow upon the baseball field, once and for all.
But let's come to one consensus about this: Mariano Rivera was not supposed to be here. No, he was supposed to be pitching in Angel Stadium or Comerica Park. Not the Metrodome. He was mentally prepared to face the Angels or the Tigers and ready to spend some quality October time in Southern California or Detroit. He certainly did not expect to be in Minneapolis, having the sub-40 degree wind slap him on the face on his way from MSP into the downtown luxury hotel. Nobody expected him to be here.
If we are being honest, let us admit that around September 6th, when the Twins were seven games behind in the AL Central with 26 to go, we all decided they were done. The local beat writers had already inked their offseason piece on how the team should approach Joe Mauer's contract extension and called it a year. Columnists had transfixed their gaze on Brett Favre who galloped into town and mesmerized the media like a Tiger Beat heartthrob. For all intents and purposes, the team was declared dead.
You know that seen in Monty Python's Holy Grail when the peasant attempts to pass off what he insists is a dead body to the body collector who ambles through a plague-stricken village calls for the remains of all the deceased? The peasant carts up a mangy looking excuse for a human being and demands that the body collector takes the pile on his cart. A voice cries from in the cart stating that he, the mangy pile, is in fact not dead. That he is very much alive and happy. And also wants to go for a walk. But for all of his persistence to the contrary, the peasant refused to accept the fact that the man was still alive. That was the Twins in 2009. Everybody assumed they were dead. The Twins, meanwhile, insistent that they weren't.
From September 7th forward, the Twins had a creampuff schedule. With multiple series against the lowly Indians and even lowlier Royals on the horizon, followed by games against the pace car that has suddenly sputtered to a crawl, the Detroit Tigers, where the Twins could directly influence their situation. Which is precisely what they did: they won 18 of 26 games. The offense hit .297 with 26 home runs and averaged 5.73 runs per game. The pitching held a 3.90 ERA and limited opponents to 4.07 runs per game. This was not a terminal team, but a team on the brink of surging. Because of the mad dash to the finish line, it was the second time in as many years, an additional game to determine the winner of the AL Central would be needed. In game 163, the Twins and Tigers turned in an epic battle that was equal parts gut-wretchingly bad and good. Unbelievably, the team that was lacking 3/5th of their original starting rotation (Slowey, Perkins, Liriano), their All-Star first baseman (Morneau) and starting third baseman (Crede), had somehow captured the division.
Rested with as many hours of sleep as people have fingers on their hands (if you exclude the index, ring finger and thumb) – the Twins were tasked with the responsibility to topple a 103-win New York Yankees team. As the Yankees trotted out 19-game winner and former Cy Young winner in CC Sabathia, the Twins countered with Brian Duesning – a fresh-faced kid from Marysville, Kansas that had not pitched in double-decker stadiums prior to this year nor even stepped foot in the city of New York. Even before the first pitch the Twins' starters' neck was already sore from craning up to see the tall buildings. Not surprising, Sabathia systematically dismantled the drowsy Twins lineup that flailed at his slider and retreated to the dugout to catch some winks prior to the next half inning. Duesing last two innings before hitting the wall himself, allowing a Derek Jeter shot to tie the game at 2-2 before the billion dollar lineup rattled off five more unanswered runs.
By game two, the Twins had caught up on sleep. Even though Nick Blackburn's mound opponent, AJ Burnett, was making $16 million more in 2009, he provided an identical performance, matching one-run ball with Blackburn for 5-plus innings. Burnett, however, would be rescued by a baserunning gaff by Carlos Gomez would ran past second to overzealously, fired two double-barrel shots into his foot and provided yet another example for the announcers to remind America how great Derek Jeter is when he called for the ball to tag out the tangled up Gomez before Delmon Young could cross the plate. As Burnett would be picked up by his teammates Blackburn, on the other hand, would be let down by closer Joe Nathan who failed to maintain the Twins' two-run lead. Many will use umpire Phil Cuzzi's miss call on Joe Mauer's 10th inning ground-rule double as a scapegoat, but the Twins would leave 17 runners on base while cleanup hitter, Jason Kubel, would whiff four times in six at-bats.
Back on Sunday night, on the mound stood the slight, yet imposing, Rivera. In the eighth, Yankees manager Joe Girardi would summon Rivera to the mound to dispose of Joe Mauer, possibly the best the Twins had to offer. Rivera has cold, dead eyes that seem to capture the souls of all of his past victims. Since 1995, Rivera had collected a regular Hall of Fame list in the postseason alone – Ken Griffey Jr, Chipper Jones, Mike Piazza, Jason Giambi and so on. It seems to keep him young. After getting Mauer to spray the first offering, Jorge Posada set up low-and-inside, well off the plate, and called for another cut fastball that barrels into a left-handed hitter. Rivera eviscerated the batting champ's lumber, sending sawmill shards every which direction and the ball dribbling up the line to the awaiting Mark Teixeira at first for the final out of the inning.
If nothing else, that moment alone symbolized everything that transpired between the two teams in the post-season: their best simply overpowered our best.