Pre-Race Thoughts Before the 143rd Belmont Stakes

Like the debaucherous prognosticating procrastinator that I am, I’ve been working too much and writing too little lately. Fifty-plus hours a week at hard labor in a kitchen with but one day a week off work — and that day spent in the dentist’s chair, no less — will keep a guy from getting motivated to take his fingers over the keyboard for any meaningful discourse on the events of the day. I’ve been abject in my duties,... Read More

Contenders and Pretenders at the 137th Kentucky Derby

The field is set, post positions are out and we’re just two days away from the 137th Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. It’s been more than six years since the good Dr. Gonzo kicked the bucket, but you’ve got to think he would love a field as decadent and depraved as the twenty horses that will be lining up on Saturday for an antiquated event that has been running since the era of Reconstruction following the Civil War. Read More  Read More