Carve a drum, hear a story – and make a quilt. You can do all that and more at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, which kicks off its Black History Month celebration today with workshops and performances.
The action starts at 11:30 a.m. with “Hoofing in America,” a performance of funky street dancing by the teenage dance troupe Tap Team Two & Company. (There’s another show at 1 p.m. today, too).
Then, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, learn about the underground railroad – and the role that quilting played in leading slaves to freedom. “During slavery, spirituals were sung with coded messages, and some quilts had coded messages, too,” explains Teresa Gonzalez, a museum staffer. “There were specific panels leading people to freedom – coded messages saying ‘go this way.'”
At today’s workshop, kids will get a chance to make their own quilt panels out of paper, then put them all together to tell a story.
Music is the message next weekend at the museum. On Saturday, from 2:30 to 4 p.m., kids can learn the history and footwork of Capoiera, a combination of Brazilian dance and martial arts. Next Sunday, ALL EYES ON BEHRENS IN DONN HA … 02/05/2000
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Published: 02/05/2000
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ALL EYES ON BEHRENS IN DONN HANDICAP
Byline: By ED FOUNTAINE
The last Grade 1 stakes they held at Gulfstream Park was the 1-mile Breeders’ Cup Classic Nov. 6. Three months later, a trio of horses who ran in the Classic and haven’t raced since are entered to meet again at Gulfstream in today’s Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap at 1- miles.
The Donn, the first leg of the “NTRA Champions on Fox” series for older horses, will be televised live by Fox from 4-5 p.m. with post time scheduled for 4:40.
The spotlight today falls on Behrens. Favored at 2-1 in the ’99 Breeders’ Cup, the son of Pleasant Colony would have clinched Horse of the Year with a victory. Instead he never ran a lick and staggered home seventh.
The dismal effort cost Behrens not only Horse of the Year but the Eclipse Award for best older horse. That honor went by one vote to Victory Gallop, who beat Behrens a nose in the Whitney Handicap last summer at Saratoga.
Behrens’ trainer Jim “007” Bond, stung by the defeat, has spent the winter licking his wounds while gearing up Behrens, now 6 years old, for another run at the championship. But Bond also entered stablemate Pleasant Breeze in the Donn, and with Jorge Chavez named to ride both horses, only one will run.
As of last evening, Bond was still unsure which of them would go.
“I want to see how both horses are when they train (this) morning,” he said. “I won’t decide until then. If the track is muddy, Behrens will not run, but it’s drying out pretty good.
“Is Behrens the same horse he was last year? I’ll let you know (today). He’s doing good or I wouldn’t enter him.”
Last year, Behrens finished second in the Donn before rattling off four straight victories in the Gulfstream Park, Oaklawn, Massachusetts and Suburban handicaps.
But Pleasant Breeze, a 5-year-old by Pleasant Tap, is no slouch either. He won the Meadowlands Cup last fall and finished second in the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs, beaten a nose.
The two other Breeders’ Cup veterans in the Donn are Golden Missile and Almutawakel.
Golden Missile – whose owner, Frank Stronach, also heads the corporation that owns Gulfstream – almost pulled off a 75-1 shocker in the Classic. The son of A.P. Indy made a bold, sweeping move on the far turn, poked his nose in front at the top of the stretch and held for third, beaten just 1½ lengths.
Trained by Joe Orseno, currently the leading trainer at the Big A winter meet, he’s been working solidly for his return and blazed five furlongs in a bullet :59.1 at Gulfstream last Saturday.
Edgar Prado, locked in a tight race for leading rider at the south Florida meet, picks up the mount.
Another leading rider at Gulfstream, Johnny Velazquez, rides Almutawakel for the first time, replacing Jerry Bailey.
Upset winner of last year’s Dubai World Cup, Almutawakel came to the U.S. late last summer and finished second in the Woodward at Belmont Park and third in the Jockey Club Gold Cup before tiring late to be fifth in the Breeders’ Cup.
His new trainer, Mark Hennig, is tied for leading conditioner at the Gulfstream stand.
