Sports picture of the year:

‘cause, you see watching men bash their brains in for your entertainment is something you get great enjoyment out of. I don’t give me the bullshit line “that horses are being forced to do it,” because you don’t know horse behavior at all.

you are implying that owners haven’t been trying to win the Triple Crown. They were trying long before Secretariat’s stallion syndication deals blew the doors off stallion fees for high end stallions in the 1970s.

how is this “legit” animal abuse?

Every god damn year I have to hear this....

Its getting there...one of the three sire lines mentioned above is gone. Most of the Derby contenders have the 1950s Derby contender Native Dancer as their great-great-great-grandfather. Suggestions have been made to the registry (the “Jockey Club”) to encourage a more diverse gene pool but they have all been rejected…

...so the Derby is going and you have horses like Exterminator (great name, right?) who was bought for $500 to be a exercise horse in 1917 and not a race horse. He was called “Old Bones” and the “Galloping Hat Rack” because never could keep on the weight. But whoops, guess who wins the 1918 Derby at 30-1! He went on…

I did that route...1979 and 1988 seasons were the worse....

...and then came 1870s, when Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. leased 80 acres from John and Henry Churchill to build...thats right Churchill Downs! Clark once the Epsom Derby in England (they say Darby” what un American prudes...) and said “hey, we need one of these!” and started a race in Kentucky called the “Kentucky…

I mean where else but horse racing are you going to press notes like this?

First the Caps win, then damn Justify comes alogn...what an ass....now what I am going to complain about in the sports world....MY LIFE DEMANDS SORROW.

Nope...I am here all week....I know a few things about horse shit, given I have to clean the stalls right now. Now, listen closely, did you know that all thoroughbreds are descended from three different Arabians (horses, not people...geezus, what is wrong with you?). First there was the Godolphin Arabian....

I went down into the gutter that is an argument with Darren Rovell on Twitter. He reported that the horse Justify (“Breaking News” he wrote) had been sold for $30,000,000. I called bullshit to him because none of the horse racing trade publications had picked up the story and $30 mil sounded too low. He argued with me…

Tom Durkin had all sorts of fun with that name.

My wife reminds of this tale as a lesson on being careful of what you name your horse. One of her charges when she was an exercise rider and rehab groom was named Outchee. He had all the talent in the world, broke his maiden first time out by 7 lengths. You are thinking Kentucky Derby horse with that result. Four days…

Match Race of the Century: My Wife Knows Everything Vs. The Wife Doesn’t Know

File to: Washington Capitals Holy Shit

you sir, should package this analysis for the Lifetime Movie Channel.

“Lord, Lord...forgive Eagles fan for pelting Santa...for they do not what they do...”