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How far has horse racing sunk? Far enough that sport's biggest event of the day isn't at Belmont, but at River Downs in Cincinnati.
At 4:53 p.m. ET, a 4-year-old named Restore the Road will race a 29-year-old named Chad Johnson. Because you can't exclaim "Oh, the humanity!" without "Man." And you can't promote "Man vs. Beast" without "Man." Or, uh, "Beast." (What about "Meast vs. Meast?")
Restore the Road will race 1/8 of a mile. Johnson will run 1/16. Thank god: It's for charity. (FeedtheChildren.org)
And, yet: I'll bet you can still make a wager at your local OTB. Currently, Beast is favored over Man at 5-7.
Full post-race coverage tomorrow. Judge for yourself what more post-race coverage of Chad Johnson than Belmont says about things.
(Memory Lane: Back in March 1983, Chris Collinsworth raced a horse — Mr. Hurry — at Turfway Park in Kentucky. Collinsworth got routed.)
— D.S.
Man vs. Beast [The Sporting Orange]
Comments
Worthless fact: The same jockey that beat Collinsworth will be riding against Johnson.
I can't wait to see Ocho Cinco's celebration should he win. I'm going with a right hook that knocks the horse out.
Though, it is a shame they couldn't find a horse named "Hugh" for him to race.
I'm sorry, we don't hire dirty centaurs.
Jesse Owens is not impressed.
Grow 'FroHawk, Grow! Affirmed.
If the horse pulls up lame, I have a good guess how they're gonna feed the children...
Barbar-... nevermind.
Please give the horse some pimped out horseshoes to show off to the crowd post-race.
What's 29 in horse years?
@ArmansCopyOfSwank:
Jesse Owens is not impressed.
John Holmes is...What's that? Oh, they're racing. Oh, that's the contest, o'kay.
As a centaur, are you more attracted to the horse part or the human part? If you saw the back of a horse, and the front was behind a barn, would you be attracted to it, for just a split second, until you realized it was a horse and not a centaur?
The rest of the interview will be Centaur questions.
Great job by those writers.
Technically I still beat you.
Ladies and gentlemen, another round of applause for Ohio.
There's a horse's ass joke in here somewhere...
Why is this race not taking place in Tijuana? I thought that was the place for all horse/man interaction.
@UkraineNotWeak:
Or Washington state.
I hope Carl Monday is there to make sure nothing gets out of hand.
No.
Affirmed.
That is the most horrifying photoshop I've ever seen.
It was a horse. Deal with it.
For the first time in three weeks, Gilbert Arenas has updated his blog. The primary topic of concern was of course his decision to opt-out of his contract.
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