All Entries in the "Horse Racing" Category
The Pinkie Crew Dominates the Derby!
If any of the seventeen readers of the Pinkie are going to make it to the Derby tomorrow, I have good news for you: the Pinkie will have a tent on Turn Three. This multicultural base of operations will allow our readers a place to hang out, drink things and try to manipulate women into [...]
Affirmed: The last Triple Crown Winner
Since NickEv decided to showcase several of the great races of Derby’s (Derbies?) past, I thought it might be great to bring in the last winner of the Triple Crown: Affirmed with an 18-year-old Steve Cauthen aboard. It is hard to believe that the last time the a horse won the Triple Crown was two [...]
Kentucky Derby 136 post positions
On Saturday, 20 horses will start in Kentucky Derby 136. Breaking from the Gate: 1: Lookin At Lucky (Garrett Gomez) 3-1 2: Ice Box (Jose Lezcano) 10-1 3: Noble’s Promise (Willie Martinez) 12-1 4: Super Saver (Calvin Borel) 15-1 5: Line of David (Rafael Bejarano) 30-1 6: Stately Victor (Alan Garcia) 30-1 7: American Lion [...]
Endorsement scratched from Derby 136
Shannon Ritter’s Endorsement, owned by WinStar Farm, was scratched this morning following a work.
Oaks Post Positions, Odds Announced
Breaking from the starting gate for Friday’s “Run for the Lilies” will be: 1. It’s Tee Time 15-1 2. Jody Slew 30-1 3. Quiet Temper 10-1 4. Age of Humor 30-1 5. Blind Luck 6-5 6. Beautician 15-1 7. Crisp 8-1 8. Tidal Pool 8-1 9. Bella Diamonte 30-1 10. Champagne d’Oro 30-1 11. Evening [...]
Contenders for the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby
It’s Derby time in the Derby City!!!!!! WOOO!!!!!! Again, as evidenced by my showing last year, I know nothing about the ponies. This year Straitpinkie.com may or may not have hired a turf expert to give you some more indepth coverage this week. However, for now it’s still me. I am three for my last [...]
Under The Lights At Churchill Downs
Well KY Senate President David Williams declared the video slots bill dead yesterday, even as it moved toward a vote by the full House. And since the racing industry is floundering while legislature continues to shoot down plans of resurrecting it, Churchill Downs is doing something tonight it has never done in its 135 year [...]
Borel pushes slots at Kentucky tracks
Frankfort, KY – Borel is helping the Kentucky Equine Education Project, a horse industry group based in Lexington, to urge passage in an upcoming special legislative session of a bill to allow slots at the tracks to increase purses. Borel is featured in a radio ad and has written a commentary about the issue. “If [...]
Summer Bird Wins the Belmont
Calvin Borel fell just short in his attempt to win the Triple Crown on two different horses and Carl H proved once again to be the worst horse racing predictor in the nation. The man picked Summer Bird last and once again proclaimed that Birds do not belong in horse racing. Well, I think the [...]
Belmont Stakes Predictions
Well, I went 0-fer in the Derby and 1-for-13 in the Preakness, so let’s see if I can build off that momentum for the 141st running of The Belmont Stakes on Saturday. I have disrespected and discounted Mine That Bird and Calvin Borel in the last two legs of the 2009 Triple Crown, dare I [...]
