In the moments after his Preakness victory aboard Rachel Alexandra, an emotional Calvin Borel said, “I love you, Mom and Dad, and thank you for the little boy that got cancer here. We’re going to try and help him, okay?”
The little boy, the 33 year-old man, is Marion Cornwell.
Most racetrack folks toil far from the [...]
Larry King has a little problem with something we like to call the truth.
And horse racing has a little problem we like to call terminal stupidity.
First, Mr. King’s problem. In an excerpt from his new book, “My Remarkable Journey,” King recounts a tale from his younger, broker, less suspender-laden days.
Down nearly to his last dollar [...]
It’s been said, in another context, that academic battles are fierce precisely because the stakes are so low.
So it is with sports in general and sports commentary in particular, in which the nearly meaningless becomes invested with the hand of God himself. Because apparently God has nothing better than to do than to prevent this [...]
Now that the Preakness has been drawn, the controversies die down. Whether you love or hate Rachel Alexandra in the race, ready or not, here she comes. Whether you think Andy Beyer’s recent “kill Maryland racing to save it” column was genius or lunacy, the one thing we all know is that, come Saturday, the [...]
Most every year, there’s a local angle to the Preakness. After all, in this faded era, the Preakness stands out as the middle jewel of the Triple Crown — and, to Maryland horsemen, our middle jewel.
The Derby, of course, will always be the Derby. But to Marylanders, the Preakness is special in a different, perhaps [...]
Preakness week has dawned with fanfare, an amusing and now resolved controversy about whether various owners of Preakness horses would conspire to freeze out super-filly Rachel Alexandra, and a salvo from Planet Curmudgeon, namely, Andrew Beyer (thanks to our pals at Equidaily for the tip).
Beyer, donning the white coat of the mad scientist, suggests that [...]
We think of horse racing as a break from real life, but to those of us who earn (or try to) a living from it, the game has a way of being sometimes more lifelike than life itself. Or, at the very least, revealing of life in capsule form.
And, so, one day just before the [...]
