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Saratoga Springs, New York
Joined July 2008
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Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
This is where his line started, White Beauty, owned and trained by my grand father Herman Goodpaster!
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Rare white thoroughbred here in the opener at @ChurchillDowns - not something you see all that often in Kentucky!
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
It's #NationalBisonDay, and we've got some bison facts!
1️⃣ Bison are the largest land mammal in North America
2️⃣ Bison may be big, but they're also fast and can run up to 30 mph!
3️⃣ When a bison's tail hangs down and swishes naturally, the bison is usually calm. If the tail is standing straight up, watch out! It may be ready to charge.
4️⃣ Bison love a good salad and are typically foraging for grasses, weeds, and leafy plants for 9–11 hours a day.
5️⃣ Called wallowing, bison roll in the dirt to deter biting flies and help shed fur.
6️⃣ Yellowstone is the only place in the U.S. where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times.
7️⃣ Bison have been integral to Tribal culture, providing them with food, clothing, fuel, tools, shelter and spiritual value. The InterTribal Buffalo Council, established in 1992, works with the NPS to transfer bison from national park lands to Tribal lands. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
ALT A large bison walking forward through deep snow with snow clinging to its fur and face.
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Aidan O’Brien confirms that MINNIE HAUK (Frankel x Multilingual) will run in the Gr1 Japan Cup 🇯🇵
Should Minnie run well in Japan, she is also very likely to run in the Gr1 Hong Kong Cup 🇭🇰
Breeders’ Cup turf winner BENVENUTO CELLINI (Frankel x Newspaperofrecord) is an intended runner for the Gr1 Hong Kong Vase 🇭🇰
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
I read a third of them and wrote three novels. More to come. link.amazon/B0ftoSRZV
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Klay Thompson gives an emotional post game interview after his game-winner:
“Bam set an incredible screen… I was visualizing my footwork. I believe in the power of the mind and I came through tonight”
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
C. S. Lewis list of must read books. The list tracks pretty well the books that a person concerned with preserving our culture ought to read (or aspire to read):
Homer
Iliad (c. 8th BCE)
Odyssey (c. 8th BCE)
Unknown, Book of Jonah (8th-4th BCE)
Pindar
Olympian Odes (early 5th BCE)
Pythian Odes (early 5th BCE)
Fragments (early 5th BCE)
Aeschylus, The Eumenides (5th BCE)
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BCE)
Aristotle, Poetics (335 BCE)
Virgil
The Georgics (29 BCE)
The Aeneid (29-19 BCE)
Lucian, Vera Historia (2nd)
Apuleius, Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass (late 2nd)
Unknown, Beowulf (8th-11th)
Unknown, The Song of Roland (11th-12th)
Laȝamon, Brut (c. 1190-1215)
Unknown, Huon of Bordeaux (c. 1216-1268)
Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda (early 13th)
Dante, Divine Comedy (1308-20)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (late 14th)
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Unknown, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th)
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485)
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (c. 1516)
Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562)
Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia (late 16th)
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590s)
William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet (1591-5)
Twelfth Night (1601-2)
The Winter’s Tale (1611)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1590-7)
Henry V (c. 1599)
John Donne, “The Apparition” (early 17th)
Michael Drayton, “The Shepherds Sirena” (1627)
Thomas Browne, Urn Burial (1658)
Jean Racine
Andromaque (1667)
Phèdre (c. 1677)
John Milton
Paradise Lost (1667-74)
Samson Agonistes (1671)
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712-4)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726, 1735)
Voltaire
“Micromégas” (1752)
Candide (1759)
Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
William Beckford, Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1782)
James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
William Wordsworth
“Michael” (1800)
The Excursion (1814)
Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815)
Benjamin Constant, Adolphe (1816)
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819)
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Witch of Atlas (1824)
Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala (1835-49)
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers (1836)
Great Expectations (1861)
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859-89)
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857)
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869)
George Eliot, Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life (1871-2)
Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)
Lewis Carroll, “The Hunting of the Snark” (1874-6)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (1883)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Edwin Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
John Ruskin, Praeterita (1885)
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
H.G. Wells
First Men in the Moon (1901)
“The Door in the Wall” (1911)
Beatrix Potter, Tales (1902-1930)
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (1904)
E.R. Burroughs, Tarzan (1912-1965)
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale (1908)
James Stephens, The Crock of Gold (1912)
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)
Gertrude Stein, “Sacred Emily” (1913)
James Branch Cabell, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919)
Kafka, The Castle (1926)
Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (1946)
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (1954-5)
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Today marks the anniversary of Secretariat's final racetrack appearance, when 32,990 fans at Aqueduct cheered as jockey Ron Turcotte paraded him through the homestretch one last time. Photo: Bob Coglianese
secretariat.com/store/photog…
#OnThisDay #FlashbackFriday #AqueductRacetrack
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Say farewell to a legend! 🩵
ROMANTIC WARRIOR’s retirement ceremony will take place at Sha Tin on 22 Nov following Race 3 on the card.
#HKRacing | #ロマンチックウォリアー
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
🌅 Goodbye Medaglia d’Oro, a truly remarkable sire and, before Sovereignty, the only horse this century to win the Travers and the Whitney S. 👑
📍@DarleyAmerica
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Look at the smile on his face!
#LeonardPeltier
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
New assessment of the greatest of all time: Antarctic blue whales, showing how whaling reduced them from >200,000 to a low of just 418 before slow recovery at 4.5% per year to more than 4000
Rand et al. [incl. me] doi.org/10.3354/esr01557
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
Her grandmother was taken from her family at eight. Today, her granddaughter is the first Native American woman elected governor in US history.
In the early 20th century, an eight-year-old Native American girl named Helen was taken from her village in New Mexico by a Catholic priest.
She was put on a train and sent to St. Catherine's Indian School in Santa Fe, more than 100 miles from home.
For five years, she lived away from her family.
Her father once travelled three days by horse and wagon to visit her.
Helen's granddaughter is Deb Haaland.
On November 3, 2026, Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico, becoming the first Native American woman ever elected governor of a US state.
But her journey to this moment was anything but straightforward.
A member of the Laguna Pueblo, Haaland raised her daughter as a single mother. She experienced homelessness, relied on food stamps and made money selling homemade salsa.
She earned her law degree at 45.
In 2018, she became one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress.
In 2021, she became the first Native American to serve as a US Cabinet secretary, taking charge of the Department of the Interior.
The historical irony was extraordinary.
She now headed the very department responsible for overseeing much of the federal government's disastrous policies toward Indigenous peoples.
Rather than sweeping that history under the carpet, Haaland ordered an investigation into America's Indian boarding schools.
The investigation identified 417 schools and documented the deaths of at least 973 Indigenous children.
The real number was almost certainly higher.
She also travelled to Indigenous communities to listen to survivors describe what had happened to them.
And now, at 65, she has won another election and broken another barrier.
The institutions that once tried to destroy Indigenous cultures had failed to destroy them.
At her election victory celebration, Haaland spoke about the road near her grandmother's childhood home.
"And just off this road, my grandmother was taken away to boarding school. Yet we are still here."
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
The impact tight vet protocols have had in driving a resurgence in the Melbourne Cup should not be underestimated. Another safe Cup. A few disgruntled connections along the way is hugely outweighed by an increase in public acceptance with all horse having a safe passage.
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
It was a riding double yesterday at @ChurchillDowns for 17yo apprentice YOMAR ORTIZ, Jr.!
@yomar_ortizjr went 2-for-2 yesterday at CD, winning the 2nd race aboard Tiffany Twist by a nose for trainer @mjsharp75_joe and the 5th race aboard Jackie's Player by 7 3/4 lengths for trainer @bradcoxracing!
Career stats since his first career mount on 10/14:
🏇31 mounts
🥇4 wins (13%)
🥈2 seconds
🥉4 thirds (32% ITM)
💵$203,403
Ortiz, Jr. has 26 scheduled mounts this week at CD and IND.
Check out his jockey profile on Equibase:
equibase.com/profiles/Result…
📸Coady Media
Sid Gustafson DVM retweeted
🇭🇰 Saffie Osborne has described herself as “slightly shocked” to learn that she has 10 rides for her Hong Kong debut at Sha Tin on Sunday.
“It’s also really nice to pick up a ride in the feature race.”
thoroughbreddailynews.com/sa…
POINT OF LAW🇬🇧2023
(FRANKEL ▪︎ PORTFOLIO BY DEEP IMPACT)
#PointOfLaw
🇦🇺Melbourne Cup G1
Flemington
3200m
A$10,200,000
