Carlsbad, the undefeated Arizona mighty mite, bumped it up to five wins in a row today to claim the $100,000 Santa Paula Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
Owned by her breeder, Dennis Weir, Carlsbad won her four starts in Arizona by a combined margin of more than 50 lengths. Weir transferred the Arizona-bred daughter of Rocky Bar to the Southern California barn of Jeff Mullins after she captured the Arizona Oaks by 13 1/4 lengths Feb. 21. She began her career last fall at Turf Paradise with Kevin Lewis.
We’re kind of bummed we weren’t there because we would have bet on her to win. The only way a horse could have a better name would be if it was Carslbadistan.
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Sounds like exactly what we’re looking for. We haven’t read the book yet, but hopefully they’ll answer the biggest question we’ve been having lately: how do you get any work done at home when you live in the most beautiful city in the world and the beach is just a short walk away?
With all the storms and floods we’ve been seeing on the news, we thought we cruise to the beach to see how Carlsbadistan is holding up. We ended up with a minute and a half of exactly why people who live anywhere else always say they hate us. . .
Carlsbadistan pro surfer Ricky Whitlock is featured in the new issue of Surfing Magazine in a story titled, Players: Confessions from five of surfing’s most notorious bachelors. But it doesn’t look like everyone in the surf world thinks it’s cool. Especially the blog Postsurf.com. Here’s what we mean:
But my favorite story came from young Ricky Whitlock, a Carlsbad D-list pro surfer who you’ve probably never heard of. . . . Ricky recounts one of his greatest exploits for Surfing: “I got this call at 11pm on a weekday night. It was a bunch of girls on the phone and they’re like ‘We’re drinking and hanging out and we want you to come over.’ I thought it was a setup, but since they weren’t far from where I was, I went anyway.” . . . Ricky goes on to describe how three girls answer the door, throw him on the couch, and start kissing him. But instead of going along with it, Ricky tells them “I need to at least have a drink to slow my heart down.” . . . Likely translation: “I’m being suffocated by three homely hippos with mustaches and unibrows. I need to be absolutely shit-faced to follow through with this.”
Want to know a little about the history of Carlsbadistan? We haven’t gone on the tour yet, but we’re looking forward to taking a “walk back into time” to “revisit 19th and early 20th century Carlsbad. Four sq. blocks of history. Stories & people from a bygone era.”
Walks are lead by amateur historian George Hruby every Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM, 1 PM and 3 PM. Tickets are $12 and available for purchase at The Ocean House Restaurant.
[Editors’ Side Note: Our recent rash of irony-free posts is scaring us a little.]
Lisa Snyder, the general manager of the Village Faire Shopping Center, was rooting around in the attic above Carlsbadistan’sOcean House Restaurant when she found a tube containing a long-lost “22-foot-long, 6-foot-high painting that once hung on the wall” of the restaurant, according to a Michael Burge story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The painting was one of three that had been tacked up in the old restaurant, which was known in its heyday as “The Twin Inns.” . . .The canvas – yellowed and slightly misshapen – shows a bosky, pastoral scene and has a signature in the bottom right corner: “J. Morton Patterson, 1/25.” . . . Snyder said the owners haven’t decided what to do with the rediscovered treasure. . . . “It’s more of historic significance than monetary,” she said.
We’ve always wondered what was in those haunted upper rooms.
As “Ambassadors of Song,” the San Diego Children’s Choir brings the joy of choral music to audiences throughout the region, the nation, and world! Polly Campbell founded the choir in 1990 with the mission to “provide the children and youth of San Diego with the opportunity for artistic and personal growth through choral music performance.” Our choristers follow a comprehensive music education program that includes classical works, folk music from many cultures, jazz, and more. For more information about the choir, please visit: www.sdcchoir.org
The performance is free, however, a $5 donation would be greatly appreciated by the museum.
Carlsbadistan’s Police Chief Tom Zoll, 58, has been placed on administrative leave “pending an investigation” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Capt. Mike Shipley has been the acting chief since March 18, Kristina Ray, the city’s communications manager, said yesterday. . . . “It’s a personnel matter, and the city cannot comment,” she said. . . .Councilman Keith Blackburn, a former Carlsbad police officer, said, “All I know was our chief was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.” . . .Zoll’s stewardship of the Police Department has seen little to no public controversy since he was hired in 2003. He is known for an easygoing style and dry sense of humor. . . .Contacted at his Carlsbad home yesterday afternoon, Zoll politely said he had no comment.
The “World’s Fastest 5k” returns to Carlsbadistan on April 5th, 2009 as our streets are again taken over by thousands of ground pounders in the Carlsbad 5000. But this year there is another twist. It’s called the All Day 25k.
“We wanted to offer a new longer-distance aspect of the race that could serve as a training option for runners preparing for a marathon or half marathon later in the season,” said Shannon Davis, Event Manager. “It will make the 5K course into a challenging 25K, thus allowing our more serious runners a chance to participate in a fast, seaside training run while still taking advantage of one of Southern California’s most exciting races.”
Limited to only 150 competitors the All Day 25K will see runners racing in five of the day’s 5k runs. No thanks. Click here for photos from last year, or follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
OC Register real estate blogger Jeff Collins wrote up the Carlsbad-based company Property Tax Adjusters today and mentioned that their recent direct mail piece arrived with the words “2009 Orange County Property Tax Assessment Notice” could be a little misleading.
Crosby Teague of Property Tax Adjusters said “there’s a fine line” between making a mailer that commands attention and claiming you’re from the government. . . “We clearly say we’re not a government agency,” Teague said. “Making a letter look important enough to open and read is a far cry from claiming we’re from the government.”
Collins was also skeptical of the companies ability to represent clients in “13 Bay Area and Southern California Counties.” For the rest of the story follow the link.
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Carlsbad, the undefeated Arizona mighty mite, bumped it up to five wins in a row today to claim the $100,000 Santa Paula Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
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