Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:55 PM

Subject: Mr. Prospector again
 
Mr. Prospector at it again!
    Speaking of watching TV……..we were weren’t we?
The following headline in a recent internet Paulick Report stated point blank, “Are talking heads a problem?”
     They were speaking of the abundance of aimless yakking that goes [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: Mr. Prospector again

Mr. Prospector is still alive and kickin’

    This kindly old curmudgeon (oxymoron?) loves it when someone has the nerve to say what should be said.
 
In a recent article in the Thoroughbred Daily News, an informative internet offering on horseracing, [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, November 09, 2010 8:46 PM
Subject: All good things

 
All Good Things
Facts are facts and Mr Prospector has to admit all good things must come to an end.
    Way back in 1956 the former Mrs Aly Khan, nee Rita Hayworth, warbled, “Put The Blame on Mame,” in a stage [...]

Author: Mr. Prospector

Datelline California, Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:21 PM
Topic: From too long silent Mr. Prospector
IT’S BREEDERS’ CUP TIME AGAIN!
The self-indulging BC officials love to call these annual races, “World Championships.”
     I like to remind all who will listen the world is not strictly the U.S. versus Europe.
     Australia, South America and others have world [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:03 PM
Subject: Thrilling finish - Horseracing fans set new betting record
  
 MR. PROSPECTOR AIN’T DIRT POOR!Hot Flash: This old dirt digger has heard it — nearly — all!
 
New dirt surface planned for Santa Anita.
According to reports, “A group of horsemen (no women? Why?) and track [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, August 15, 2010 8:55 PM
Subject: Doug O’Neill, Darryl Delaoussaye and low ranking, $2,000 race horses
 No Song of Burna Dette from Doug O’Neill, while O’neill and the “Milkshake King” Darryl Delahoussaye are at it (again).
Mr. Prospector can’t carry a tune.

But neither can trainer Doug O’Neill after this debacle.
 
Debacle it is!
    The 1943 [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, Monday, August 09, 2010 7:34 PM
 Subject: Pace makes the Race; Zenyatta at Delmar & Quality Road in Whitney Handicap at Saratoga …
It’s about time …
 
Mr. Prospector has seen a lot of “time.”
     The word time pops up all over the place.
     “Time flies when you’re having fun.”
     [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:31 AM
Subject: Lopsided doings; A horse racing record; Toyota with no accelerator problems; and a Mexican Torero scared sh**less!
 
Modern era!
 That term drives this old pick and shovel geezer up the wall.
    Every story I have read pertaining to the super race mare Zenyatta winning the [...]

Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: Somewhere in the California Hills, Monday, June 07, 2010 7:33 PM
Subject: Zenyatta poised for historic milestone, top ten dumbest sports, boxing and the Belmont Stakes, and what happened to D-Day
 
Breaking away and Zenyatta …
Well now, the great race mare ZENYATTA this weekend will jump out of the Hollywood Park starting gate against rather [...]

Title: The science of horse training – aka “how not to starve your horse, and get out of its way”
Byline: Mr. Prospector
Dateline: 28 May 2010; from the Golden Starting Gates
 
Now this is truly a strike.
No not finding a rich vein of gold, but having someone call it as he see it. The Paulick Report is [...]