Deadspin: Horses

Kentucky Man Charged With Repeat Horse-Sex Offense

Jack Dickey — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:45:00 EDT

Nathan Johnson, 28, just can't suppress the urges inside him. Or maybe he was just bored in Paducah, Kentucky, a city of 25,000 near the Illinois border. The heat, oh, the heat. It can drive a man mad. More »

Horse Herpes Outbreak Forces Rodeo Queens To Ride Stick Ponies

Barry Petchesky — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:40:00 EDT

Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's the actual headline that a Utah TV station went with for this story. More »

This Is What It Looks Like To Almost Get Trampled By A Runaway Racehorse

Emma Carmichael — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:15:00 EDT

Hickey posted about this traumatizing moment at the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Australia's Warrnambool carnival this morning, when a wild racehorse leaped over a fence and into a crowd of people, injuring an 80-year-old woman and a two-year-old boy and scaring the shit out of an unspecified number of people. Now there's video, here to kill any lingering childhood dreams of the "cute horsie" you might be holding onto. More »

Preakness Infield Exposé: I See The Blush Upon Thy Ass Cheeks, Maryland!

Andrew Snow (pictures) and Alan Siegel (words) — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:45:29 EDT

On Saturday, photographer Andrew Snow and writer Alan Siegel ventured among the bottoms and bottomless mugs of beer in the Preakness infield. Their report and a gallery, after the jump. More »

Don't Forget to Send In Your Photos and Videos of Preakness Debauchery

Gourmet Spud — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:00:06 EDT

Unlimited drinks for $20 means, at the very least, someone's got a picture of a jockey being tossed around like a beach ball against his fiery little will. More »

Today Is The Preakness, So Send Us Your Photographic Evidence of $20 Debauchery

A.J. Daulerio — Sat, 15 May 2010 12:15:33 EDT

You know, the usual: Port-a-potty runs, fistfights, "Show. Your. Tits!"-chants, vomiting girls, litter, men running on to the track attempting to cold-cock horses mid-gallop. All that good stuff. Subject: Preakness Mess. And read this excellent story from Triple Canopy. More »

Teen Guilty of "Horsing Around!" (Also Probably Seriously Mentally Ill)

Pareene — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:22:52 EST

Wacky sporting news for you crazy kids! "Goshen teen charged with having sex with horses." More »

Ball The Pretty Horses: High Schoolers Show School Spirit With Equine Double-Team T-Shirts (UPDATE)

Tommy Craggs — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:40:16 EDT

It seems a few hairy-palmed scamps at Houston's Memorial High School recently sold the t-shirt you see here to commemorate their Mustangs' football game against archrival Stratford. Think this is the only bit of Memorial-related horsefucking? Nay! More »

Man Asserts Dominion Over Nature, Hits Horse With Rally Car

Tommy Craggs — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:30:28 EDT

Here's a photo of an Argentine rally driver running into a herd of wild horses somewhere in the Patagonian hills. One of them had to be put down. This is basically a metaphor for the industrial revolution. More »

And For His Next Trick, Sun Tzu Will Write The Sequel To All The Pretty Horses

Ben Cohen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EDT

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"The strain, my dear, the strain. I have attended wars which seemed less emotional experiences than Pony Club polo matches." Note to columnists: War is never a good analogy. Especially when you're writing about tony ponies. [Daily Mail] More »

I Want My Money Back

KOGOD — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Kentucky Derby favorite I Want Revenge was scratched from this afternoon's race as a precautionary measure. There is concern over an injury that could be exacerbated by making the horse run in the rain. [AP] More »

Previewing the Running of the Horses

KOGOD — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:30:00 EDT

The Preakness Stakes is finally upon us and Maryland students couldn't be more eager to get fucked up in celebration (it's not a real party without Scott Van Pelt). Since I know incredibly little about horse racing, I've turned to Randy, a lover of both equines and Deadspin. His words are after the jump. More »

Leonard Davis Gives A Damn About Your Horse

mjdeadspin — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:30:00 EDT

It's the biggest time of the year in horse racing, and you know what that means: total disregard for the health of animals while the rest of us drink bourbon and gamble. But not for Cowboys offensive lineman Leonard Davis. Davis is an equine hero. More »