the quest for the elusive triple crown starts again...

...with the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby. the winning horse hopefully will win the next race, the Preakness and then at the Belmont Stakes. the last to win that triple crown honor was Secretariat in 1973, hmn, lots of young folks were not born then, i'm sure, laughs. but it is a fascinating, heart thumping and riveting 2 minutes in sports. i don't go to horse races nor bet on them but i am always fascinated and glued on TV comes first saturday in may. it is not because of the hats worn by fashionable ladies but maybe because of the sheer grandeur and the chance to put my bet in my head of who will be the winner this year. i rooted for shackleford but he made it only to 4th place out of the 19 horses that ran. i always thought that this game was rigged though by how and by who that is the question. but come on, in 38 years, nobody had followed secretariat's footsteps yet?

and congrats to our super hero, manny pacquiao. not only that he can make traffic vanish in metro manila, with his fists he can make bigger men submit in defeat, wow! i think he is greater than muhammad ali :)...but i know you knew that already :>