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Good Horse Dead
Cigar, who won Horse of the Year in 1995 and 1996, and at one point won 16 consecutive races, died last night due to complications from neck surgery. He was 24. Here he is setting a then-record at the '95 Breeders' Cup Classic. ...
Queen Elizabeth's Racehorse Fails Drug Test
Estimate, a five-year-old mare owned by Queen Elizabeth II, tested positive for morphine following a recent race. Morphine is illegal on race days, but it appears this may all have been a big mistake....
Pissed-Up Wanker Invades U.K. Horse Race, Manages Not To Get Killed
A while back we brought you an Idiot On The Field who ran onto the track during a harness race. Here's the thoroughbred version, from today's Cream Gorse Handicap race in Leicester....
California Chrome Owner Gives Weepy Apology
Steve Coburn, the co-owner of California Chrome, is real sorry about all the steamin' and hollerin' he's been doing in the days since his horse failed to win the Triple Crown. To prove it, Coburn and his wife went on Good Morning America, where the mustachioed old man wept and apologized the same wa...
California Chrome Owner Steve Coburn Is Still Pissed Off
Steve Coburn, one of the owners of California Chrome, was furious about horses being allowed into the Belmont Stakes without racing the previous races in the Triple Crown. He called Tonalist's victory the "coward's way out." A day later, Coburn's still fuming about the loss....
California Chrome Does Not Win The Triple Crown At Belmont
California Chrome finished tied for fourth at the Belmont and so the Triple Crown eludes another horse. Tonalist is your winner, as California Chrome got off the rail and stuck behind a pack of horses and never seemed to really catch fire. Commissioner and Medal Count came in second and third, respe...
Someday Belmont: The Making Of A Race Horse
Originally published in the June 1, 1975, edition of New York Newsday. Reprinted here with the author's permission. For more Nack, check out his classic portrait of Secretariat in Sports Illustrated....
Horse Dies In Infuriatingly Avoidable Accident At Churchill Downs
Unless you reject the idea of horse racing, you have to accept that horses break down and are destroyed. It's an unfortunate part of the sport, and lots could be done to minimize fatalities, but it's always going to happen. At Churchill Downs yesterday, five-year-old mare Never Tell Lynda did not ne...
California Chrome Takes Preakness, Has Shot At Triple Crown
California Chrome and jockey Victor Espinoza won the Preakness Stakes today in a time of 1:54.84....
Wes Welker May Have Been Giving Away Money That Wasn't His At The Derby
So, about all that money Wes Welker was walking around with at the Kentucky Derby, some of which he passed out to adoring fans: Churchill Downs wants it back. ...
Images From The 140th Kentucky Derby
[Horses round the first turn during the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs on Saturday. AP Photo/Matt Slocum.]...
Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, has his pick for the Kentucky Derby. He likes Chitu as the best value—20-1 right now—but he has some other recommendations for exotics that you should check out on his blog. Levitt also swung by Deadspin to chat horse racing yesterday, which you can read her...
Make A Mint Julep And Capture The Fake Majesty Of The Horse Track
Remember how Regressing was the best part of Deadspin until they pulled this unconscionable bullshit and we had to fire-murder poor Reuben and Kyle, who were probably decent dudes, but at a certain point, enough's enough? Well, we here at the Concourse are aiming to atone for some of our dead brothe...
<em>Freakonomics</em> For The Derby: I'm Steven Levitt. Let's Talk Horses.
Steven Levitt is one of the authors of Freakonomics and a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He's also something of a railbird and an adviser to Derby Jackpot, a legal online horse betting website. Dive into the discussion below and ask him about handicapping tomorrow's Kentucky De...
Two Racehorses Die In Head-On Collision
Harness racing at Flamboro Downs in Ontario was marred last night by a horrible-head collision that required two horses to be euthanized. The video shows the collision just after the one-minute mark; It's not necessarily graphic, but it is disturbing....
Gate Car Spins Out, Crashes Into Horses
Disturbing video here from Freehold (N.J.) Raceway, but know that four drivers went to the hospital and all horses survived....