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Saturday, June 08, 2002
 
The Belmont Stakes

The LA Times has an interesting story on War Emblem's owner Prince Ahmed bin Salman of Arabia. But the LA Times sucks hard now. Not only do they still bombard you with pop-up ads, now they want you to register with your name, address, phone number, age, and all kinds of other identifying information. Feel free to use my login and password. Both are 456123. Or get your own by feeding them a bunch of bogus information. Or boycott 'em - whatever.

Oh yeah, horseracing. It seems that a lot of folks are none to happy with the way the Arabs are throwing around their money and buying the talent to win - ala (no, not allah) the Detroit Red Wings. The article quotes Jimmy Breslin from Long Island Newsday as writing, "It is understood that these Saudis won't have the class of a goat. If this Bin Salman had any, he would stay away and not run his horse out of respect." The article suggests that the Prince's father may be involved with terrorists. And the Prince himself owns a number of Arab newspapers around the world though they are said to print "not as much of the hate" as papers actually published in Arabia. Well, that's a relief.