Category Archives: horse racing

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September 24th, 2008 | Posted in college football, horse racing, nfl

Everything you wanted to know about our site but was afraid to ask … well, ok: We’re afraid of us too.

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Guv wants the interwebs charged with murdering Eight Belles.

September 24th, 2008 | Posted in horse racing

Give it up for Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear: He knows how to get some attention.
Well, at least the gamblers attention. And those people are way cool.
Guv Beshear wants to restrict his state’s residents access to some of the most popular gambling web sites - 141 of them to be exact - and give Kentucky control [...]

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Amazing: Trying to rob a race track wouldn’t work. Shocking.

September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in horse racing

Let’s see, what are the worst places to try and rob? Hmm … how about a bank? All those cameras, all that security … and what about a horse racing track? Yeah, same scenario - let’s hit there!
And that’s where the story starts.
According to the Henderson Gleaner, three yahoos on Monday tried to rob a [...]

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If we ride them, it means we don’t have to eat them in a burger

September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in horse racing

This is like watching the water-skiing squirrel at the end of the newscast - Little jockeys riding camels and ostriches never gets old. This is from the final day of 2008 racing at Ellis Park, located at the connection of Evansville, Indiana and Henderson, Kentucky. Enjoy!

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Don’t worry: Horse racing doesn’t need the positive publicity

August 14th, 2008 | Posted in horse racing

Remember Big Brown? The horse that dominated the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes before sleepwalking through the Belmont?
Yeah, that guy.
Despite the loss, the horse has drawing power, and Jess Jackson, owner of Curlin (2007 winner of the Preakness Stakes and Horse of the year) had an offer: Run the two horses in August 30th’s Woodward [...]

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Cue the Kentucky cries: Gillispie can’t even outcoach a bunch of sixth graders.

August 8th, 2008 | Posted in college basketball, horse racing

Ok, it’s not quite that simple. But we love needling the big blue nation.
Thursday, UK coach Billy Gillispie gave his time to coach against a sixth-grade team from Dallas. His players? About the same size, just a tad older. Well, MUCH older.
Try a team of horse-racing jockeys. And the final score?
Sixth grade 49, jockeys 32.
We [...]

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All these landlubbers horsies be a bunch of scurrrrrvy dogs! Argh!

July 29th, 2008 | Posted in horse racing, other pro

Legendary horse racing announcer Tom Durkin has a ton of fun with this race at Saratoga. First reference is at :22, but things get downright hiliarious at :55. Nice job, Thomas.

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