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This might be one gruesome Kentucky Derby. There are 20 horses in the field, and Calvin Borel gets to ride only one of them. Twenty horses being asked to run the race of their lives, and it won't matter how many others they have to push around, run over, mug and treat inhospitably.
Twenty horses, and none of them prepared for a stirring rendition of "My Old Kentucky Home," and if the weather people are accurate handicappers, the Churchill Downs track will resemble suburban basements at high tide. Hooves and horseshoes...
Last summer, the trainer Doug O’Neill was formally sanctioned after one of his racehorses at Hollywood Park in California tested positive for illegal drugs. A year before, in 2010, O’Neill was punished for administering an ... more »
BALTIMORE -- Few things related to the consumption of sports have changed more in the last decade than their measurability. The fan (or the writer) knows more now about what he has seen than ever before. This is a deliciously... more »
They wake up, and then they sing. Team O'Neill — as Kentucky Derby winner Doug O'Neill and his group of assistants and grooms are called — rises early, like all horsemen. In Baltimore, where the crew is preparing I'll Have... more »
Possessing a moniker familiar to infield revelers and non-racing fans alike, I’ll Have Another will be a popular favorite to duplicate his Kentucky Derby performance in the Preakness Stakes, second jewel of... more »
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