Racing Articles
PETA Kentucky Derby Billboard Protests Horse Racing Drug Use, Draws ...
Huffington Post
Guillermo told HuffPost that the People For Ethical Treatment Of Animals isn't calling for the abolition of horse racing; it wants to make it safer. One way to accomplish this, PETA suggests, is by ending the administration of painkillers and other ...
ABC NewsIn Defense of Horse Racing
TIME (blog)
Sportswriters, op-ed scribes and cultural critics have been drafting horse racing's obituary for years. Attendance at U.S. tracks has plummeted to distressing, all-time lows. Drug problems — in both humans and horses — plague the industry. Aside from ...
New Mexico WatchdogThe wide-open 139th Kentucky Derby filled with uplifting stories
SI.com
Another Pletcher horse, Overanalyze, is owned by gregarious millionaire Mike Repole, 44, who jumped into racing in 2007 after selling his and his partner's bottled water company, Glaceau (maker of Vitaminwater and Smartwater) to Coca-Cola for $4.4 ...
Mid Columbia Tri City HeraldTough day for horses that ran in Florida
MiamiHerald.com
Orb's impressive victory in Saturday's Kentucky Derby overshadowed what otherwise was a disappointing race for several horses that ran at Gulfstream Park this year. Charming Kitten finished ninth for the second-best finish among the seven Kentucky ...Orb comes from behind to win Kentucky Derby
NBCSports.com
The second leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown will be May 18 when the Preakness Stakes is held at Pimlico. The rain that pelted the track earlier in the day had stopped by the time 19 horses paraded to the post for the 139th Derby. While it ...Figures point to Goldencents as Kentucky Derby winner | Horse racing analysis
The Seattle Times
Over the years, the field at Churchill Downs has regularly been populated by sprinters who set such a fast early pace they compromise the chances of every horse racing near the lead. As a result, the Derby has been a race for stretch-runners. Since ...Software, meet horse racing: Derby Jackpot brings off-track betting to the ...
PandoDaily (blog)
Brothers Tom and Walter Hessert found this out through their brother, who is involved in the horse racing community. In January they launched Derby Jackpot, a social media-injected online horse race betting site. Now, just in time for Saturday's ...
