This past weekend at Santa Anita, when Zenyatta looked for the “impossible” win, most of my local LGBT horse-fan friends were in that crowd, screaming their heads off for this popular favorite. And the ones I know who couldn’t make it to the track were glued to their TVs.
Everything went wrong for Zenyatta in that [...]
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An “impossible” win that inspires
The year of girl power
It’s one of those moments when a champion racehorse becomes a symbol for human aspirations. This year, so many outstanding fillies are out there — including the remarkable Zenyatta — that touts are calling it “the year of girl power.” But it’s 3-year-old Rachel Alexandra that has women and girls flooding to the tracks to [...]
Farewell to Hollywood Park
Today is the last day of racing at the storied racetrack built in a bean field in 1938 by movie mogul Jack Warner. A developer plans to raze the complex and build a low-income housing project and mall. Victim of the recession’s impact on sports, Hollywood Park isn’t going quietly. Noisy allegations are being made [...]
Quick hits: Federer, Phelps, Lakers, Magic
Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal in the Madrid final…on clay!
Injuries catch up to Rockets and Celtics as Lakers and Magic reach Conference Semifinals.
Phelps loses again in Charlotte.
Illinois head football coach Ron Zook is posting some odd Tweets at 2 A.M.
Rachel Alexandra is the first filly to win the Preakness in 85 years.
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The Preakness is tomorrow
It’s gonna be an interesting race. Kentucky Derby upset winner Mine That Bird faces an out-of-left-field challenge from Rachel Alexandra. She’s the super-filly who won the Kentucky Oaks the day before the Derby, by an astounding 20 lengths. Calvin Borel, who piloted Bird from way behind, rode Rachel to a similar tactical win [...]
Kentucky Derby Shocker
The blimp shot reveals just how incredible that winning charge was, by a horse that few commentators (including myself) had given any attention before the race. Mine That Bird, a Canadian-bred bay gelding that sold for $9500 as a yearling and went off as a 50-to-1 long shot, came from dead last to flatten a [...]
Who knew jockeys could be this sexy?
Horse racing takes center stage this weekend and with that, we should consider the jockeys. Photographer Elena Dorfman has and what she came up with puts those athletes in a new perspective. A naked one, in fact. She wanted to show their athleticism in a new exhibit set to open this summer at Louisville’s 21c [...]
A horsy weekend ahead…
On Saturday afternoon, a few L.A. friends and I will congregate at my media-room telly with fried chicken and a bottle of wine. As a kid I started out listening to the Kentucky Derby on the radio with my dad every year…am not about to miss this race EVER. Some other horse-loving homos [...]
Morning hits: Draft, Derby, refs, Cosby
It’s irrelevant to tell people how NFL teams drafted before any of their players have played a single down, but it can be entertaining so here are a couple links. Pro Football Weekly pick-by-pick analysis. Analysis from Peter King, who grades Pats, ‘Boys and Raiders badly. Mel Kiper says Jets had second-best draft with only [...]
Did jockey Frankie Dettori kiss Gov. Schwarzenegger?
The Governor took time away from electioneering to attend the Breeders Cup today, arriving at Santa Anita just before the running of the much-awaited Classic. So he was there to see Dettori ride British-owned Raven’s Pass to an upset victory. Good-looking Dettori is Europe’s top jockey, and makes himself famous on the other side of the pond for his [...]
Gay horse to race in Breeders’ Cup
From the Onion. Priceless.
Hat tip to Matthew
First Openly Gay Racehorse To Compete Sunday
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Big Brown out, Casino Drive in
We horse lovers who have worried about Big Brown continuing to race on that problematical hoof can now breathe easy. The other day, the colt was pulled from preparation for the Breeders Cup Classic and officially retired to stud. The reason: a flukey new injury during a work, when a hind hoof clipped the back of a front [...]
Remember Big Brown?
After he won the Haskell on August 4th — barely –the horse disappeared from public view. He hadn’t shown the fire of his earlier races. The IEAH Stables were clearly worried. His loud-talking trainer Rick Dutrow was talking less. They wanted him, and his problem feet, to get a good rest while they figured out what [...]
Nadal romps, Big Brown flops
Well, at least one sporting favorite decided to show up this weekend, the athlete on two legs not the one on four.
In Paris, Rafael Nadal crushed Roger Federer in straight sets for the most lopsided French Open final since 1977 and the first time since 1999 that Federer lost a set 6-0. Nadal, in winning [...]
On the Racing Front This Weekend…
Re the ongoing thread of whether War Emblem is or isn’t gay:
His Japanese stud-farm owners, the Shadai Stallion Station, continue to deal with his low libido. And their efforts are paying off — the horse has a growing list of progeny — 43 to date, with the oldest now racing as four-year-olds. [...]
