It strikes me as a little weird that Desormeaux eased him up so much, but on the other hand, after what happened to Eight Belles, they would have had his *head* if anything had happened to Big Brown.

Yeah, this. Which, as the horse did have a bruise earlier, if he wasn't running right (even though he didn't feel lame), means Kent was going on the side of caution.

As for Dutrow, he's a doper, a tool, and a cheat. Guy like him, honestly, oughta be banned from the sport.

Yeah, I can see where Dutrow is leading up to changing jocks and hoping that everyone will accept it as his fault.

I just wish that ABC had treated Da'Tara's connections like people who'd won a big race.

NY Times "The Rail" blog post and Blood Horse blog post.

Preferably ending peacefully in bed surrounded by fat, happy grand and great-grandchildren, not with tubes and IVs and lung cancer. Fuck you, cancer, you asshole.

I know this doesn't help, but he doesn't have to have tubes and IVs (except for painkillers) if he doesn't want them.

Hubs's mother spent her last days at her home, tubeless except for morphine, surrounded by loved ones.

By the time that fact was being widely advertised, though, he was well into adulthood. In the 40s and 50s, the things were still being sold as good for you and your nerves.

True. Like suntanning in the 1970s was pimped as "healthy." If I could grandfather-clause my yearly childhood sunburns so that they didn't contribute to my huge chances of getting skin cancer, I would. Same with smoking.

Maybe the owners will change trainers.

OMGbadimplosion!

And the one person we really really really need? Not here.

exactly. Expectations were exceeded!

yay! Yay

July 4 weekend ...

now with 100% more yay!

OMGbadimplosion!

oi.

sorry sara.

who has the maketodaygofaster machine? please to turn it on.

Not that I don't have stuff to do, just no more will to do things today.

someone shoot me.

How about we shoot whoever is making you want us to shoot you instead?