Horse Racing Needs Big Brown vs. Curlin More Than Ever

By bsd987, Section Other Sports
Posted on Wed Aug 20 2008 at 4:29 PM EST
More on: Big Brown, Curlin, Horse Racing, Thoroughbred Racing, Triple Crown, Kentucky Derby, Match Race, Breeders' Cup (all tags)

Some things disappear. Vanish. Just go away.

Sure, there are reasons, explanations, scapegoats, but the simple fact is that things disappear.

Unfortunately, down that same path more things might disappear.

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25 Greatest American Thoroughbreds: Part 1 of 6

By bsd987, Section Other Sports
Posted on Tue Jul 29 2008 at 11:44 PM EST
More on: Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Belmont, Preakness, Triple Crown, Breeders' Cup, Thoroughbred Racing (all tags)

Eleven. Currently, that's the most important number in American horse racing. There have been eleven Triple Crown winners spread out over 59 years.

However, since the dawn of television, which for arguments sake was 1952, there have only been three horses that could claim all three legs.

For any American who could not get to Louisville, Ky., Baltimore, or Elmont, N.Y., the first time he or she saw a champion horse was in 1952 when CBS affiliate WHAS covered the Kentucky Derby and the signal was broadcast across the country. Hill Gail won the race as the favorite, but an injury kept him out of the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. He never won another major stakes in his career.

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The other side of the Kentucky Derby

By bsd987, Section Other Sports
Posted on Thu May 03 2007 at 10:36 PM EST
More on: Kentucky Derby, horse racing (all tags)

It's hard to believe only eight years ago Charismatic took 31-1 odds into the gate and emerged as the Kentucky Derby champion. And two weeks later, he took 8-1 odds and won the Preakness.

Sadly, the colt broke his leg in the stretch in his next race, the Belmont Stakes, finishing a close third, and was thus denied being the first Triple Crown winner in 21 years.

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