In one of the few contests I actually give a rats about in the world of sports classified as a race that does not involve four-legged, equine athletes, the 2009 Heisman Trophy race is shaping up to be a good one.  Like some evenly matched Kentucky...

Taking a brief moment away from the horse racing coverage here, which you can obviously tell was a bit lacking this weekend.  There was a good reason for that, though.  As a native son of Alabama, my feelings were completely wrapped in the hopes and...

I have to be honest, I completely missed this story when it first broke on Bloodhorse on Tuesday.  In fact, I’ll further confess that until now, I wasn’t very familiar with the career of Ira Babe Hanford, or the story of the 1936 Triple Crown season,...

If, like me, you typically consume enough turkey and tryptophan over the Thanksgiving weekend to be able to induce hallucinogenic dream like sequences involving talking animals, cartoon characters, and eerily fitting sitar music at will, then perhaps...

We all know how ferociously the Horse of the Year debate is currently running on the net.  In stark contrast to that heaviness, here’s an attempt at a little light hearted humor hoping to bring a few smiles to people’s faces.  I originally posted...