Foolish Pleasure

An article from the July 23, 1873 Washington (PA) Reporter recently caught my attention, as it is particularly demonstrative of the once...

Being in academia, my summers are usually pretty low-key affairs. Lots of home improvement projects mixed with sitting by the pool, playin...

Post time for the G 3 Gallorette is an ungodly 11:30 a.m., and the next race isn’t until over an hour later? How odd. [edited to add: ah,...

Admittedly due to my love of true stamina tests, the Belmont Stakes is, hands-down, my favorite of the Triple Crown races, closely follo...

As a word geek, there’s nothing I love more than a well-named race horse. To hardcore horseplayers that fascination may appear superficia...

With less than two weeks remaining, exactly who to bet on Kentucky Derby day is becoming, at least to my thinking, even more confusing as s...

On Saturday, the return of Lava Man to the race track (albeit as a mere stable pony for G1 Santa Anita Derby winner I’ll Have Another ) ...

Fantastic all-group stakes card at Rosehill this evening (Saturday in Australia), including the first leg of Australia’s 2-year-old Triple ...

Something Bill Pressey pointed out over at his ThoroEdge blog this week has been rattling around my brain as sounding awfully familiar. ...

The Derby/Oaks future wager is exactly like buying a lottery ticket—nothing more than a wild-ass chance that you’ve gamble on the right hor...