My Days at the Races: The Derby Diet
I enjoyed one mint julep per day at the track and loved it. Nothing is forbidden, but the old me would have had three.
I enjoyed one mint julep per day at the track and loved it. Nothing is forbidden, but the old me would have had three.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy
President Barack Obama completes 100 days in office. Never have so many pundidiots talked so much for so little a stretch of time. If all the 100-da...
New York Post | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media
HELPED by a rainy Saturday afternoon that kept a lot of people indoors, Mine That Bird's storybook Kentucky Derby victory turned out to be the most-wa...
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green
Mine That Bird was proclaimed ready for the Preakness on Monday after a spirited early morning jog, while his trainer remained groggy from two nights ...
McClatchy | Richard Mauer | | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
If it weren't for the plea deal that his dad, former Veco chief executive Bill Allen, made with federal prosecutors, Mark Allen might not have been in...
AP | BETH HARRIS | Posted 06.02.2009 | Home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The cowboy and his horse beat them all. Four Hall of Fame trainers. The ruler of Dubai. Two very sentimental favorites. Traine...
Matthew DeBord | Posted 06.02.2009 | Entertainment
For more than a century, Americans have been annually treated to one of the most bizarre and deranged sporting events ever devised. The Derby is a full-on freak show, encased in a bubble of ersatz southern elegance.
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 06.02.2009 | Home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jeff Mullins rarely spoke publicly this week about I Want Revenge, the horse he was training for the Kentucky Derby. When he d...
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 06.01.2009 | Style
Freshly cut grass, horse manure, hats, and greenbacks make me think of two things: the time I went riding in a pasture full of money with Minnie Pearl...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | Home
Time to break out the mint juleps, for its Derby time this Saturday. And so here is some useful information below about the 135th running of the Kentu...
Don McNay | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
When I go to the track, I don't look at the racing form, jockeys, past history or pick horses with funny names. I usually win enough money to pay for lunch.
AP | BETH HARRIS | Posted 05.30.2009 | Home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — I Want Revenge was made the early 3-1 favorite for the Kentucky Derby, with Pioneerof the Nile and Dunkirk sharing second-favo...
Bethenny Frankel | Posted 05.25.2009 | Living
I'm thin and marketing health and wellness and I feel a bit out of shape. So what do I do? What I do is know that this will pass, and when I have a minute, I run and squeeze in a yoga class.
Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.05.2009 | Home
The Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown is this weekend, and Big Brown is primed to win the coveted Triple Crown title. Big Brown is a ...
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.24.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — A horse by any other name simply wouldn't have worked for UPS. Capitalizing on the buzz around thoroughbred racing's biggest event, ...
New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 05.15.2008 | Business
MINUTES before he was to appear live on NBC on Saturday as the presenting sponsor of the Kentucky Derby, David C. Novak, the chief executive of Yum Br...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO OF THE NBC COVERAGE FROM THE MINUTES OF THE CONFUSION AND THEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT*** AP reports: Big Brown backed up his trai...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living
**UPDATE**: Big Brown was Saturday's big winner, but things did not end so well for second placer Eight Belles, who had to be put down after breaking ...
AP | DAN GELSTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his breakdown at the Preakness last May. "We just reached a point where ...
Bethenny Frankel | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment