Random Replay of the Week: The Third Triple Crown Failure in a Row

I was a little too busy observing the Green Sports Alliance Summit last week to go back and watch a replay… but sitting down today I decided to flip through some old horse races courtesy of the on-demand section from Versus on my cable box. There was a period early in the new millennium when the sport of horse racing came agonizingly close again, and again, and then again once more to realizing the long-sought dream of a Triple Crown winner.... Read More

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 136th Preakness Stakes

The field is set, post positions are out and we’re just two days away from the 136th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore. The Kentucky Derby saw Animal Kingdom blow past the favorites under jockey John Velazquez to give trainer Graham Motion his first Derby winner in a long career in the sport. The Preakness, hosted by the second oldest race course in the country, is that middle jewel that has stumbled many a potential Triple Crown winner.... Read More