http://www.kentucky.com/288/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Maryjean Wall 60 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:05:12 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/288/story/419966.html http://www.kentucky.com/288/story/419966.html Sat, 31 May 2008 07:31 EDT
Herald-Leader staff writer Maryjean Wall, a three-time Eclipse Award winner who has covered thoroughbred racing since 1973, is retiring.

Wall said Friday that she decided to accept the Herald-Leader's recently announced voluntary buyout program because .it's time to move on and do something else.. She said her first priority will be completing her dissertation for a PhD in history at the University of Kentucky, something she's been working on for about three years.

Herald-Leader Publisher Timothy Kelly said the number of employees who decided to participate in the buyout program was .very close to the number we anticipated.. Wall was the only reporter to take the buyout.

She was one of the first women to cover horse racing full time, in an era when sports writing was a profession still dominated by men. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/288/story/410109.html http://www.kentucky.com/288/story/410109.html Tue, 20 May 2008 02:03 EDT
I mean, when you talk about flight risks (as suspected in the Curlin ownership situation), Big Brown is a whole lot more certain to disappear. His owners have said so. He won't race at age 4.

Under different circumstances, Horse of the Year Curlin probably would have disappeared into the stud at the end of 2007 and we'd never have seen him win the $6 million Dubai World Cup in March.

But Curlin can't go anywhere except to the next racetrack. With hundreds of former fen-phen users seeking the assets of two of his three owners (Shirley Cunningham and Bill Gallion), the ownership situation is a tad too touchy to do a worthwhile stallion deal.

That's why I'd like to thank the judge. He inadvertently gave the rest of us an extended glimpse of a great horse as he matures and masters the world stage. Last I heard, Curlin was nominated for France's premier race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.]]>