The Cheltenham Festival kicks off tomorrow and punters are scurrying to the bookmakers in their numbers in a last-ditch effort to put their hard earned cash behind some of the finest national hunt horses to come out of the British Isles in recent years. The maiden event of the opening day at the rac...

After 10 exasperating days without a victory, Tony McCoy today became the first jumps jockey to ride 3,000 winners after victories on Hello Moscow and Restless D'Artaix at Plumpton, but not before a day of drama at the Sussex course. The 13-times champion jockey has been repeatedly denied by poor we...

So another reader has checked in and claims that the art of port-a-john jumping was actually perfected at the Kentucky Derby in 2007, as these photos demonstrate. There's no doubt that the antics of Frank Casatelli during last year's Preakness Stakes have captivated the nation. I claimed that Frank'...

His name is Frank Casatelli, but you know him better as the drunk guy who tried to jump from the top of one port-a-john to another at the infield at Pimlico Racetrack last year. Frank did not capture victory in that leap. But as he lay motionless on the grass in the aftermath, being jeered and pelte...

It’s not easy being Baltimore. You’ve got the violence and the accent and the fact that He’s Just Not That Into You was apparently filmed there and a bunch of other problems of varying sizes. But there’s always the Preakness, which is the only one of the three Triple Crown ra...

The Maryland Jockey Club is ending the long-standing tradition of spectators bringing their own beer onto the infield at the Preakness Stakes. We like to think we had something to do with that. The Preakness infield has long been a source of wonder and amusement, and we here at Deadspin have brought...

Well, well! Today, the Daily News‘ Dick Jerardi reminds us today is a national holiday: It’s the second anniversary of the day Barbaro died! (If you’ve forgotten what a wonderful time that was in terms of Internet hilarity, please read the Field Guide to Barbaro Messageboard Factio...

Well, well! Today, the Daily News‘ Dick Jerardi reminds us today is a national holiday: It’s the second anniversary of the day Barbaro died! (If you’ve forgotten what a wonderful time that was in terms of Internet hilarity, please read the Field Guide to Barbaro Messageboard Factio...

Late to the ball as usual, but anyone else think this lede was massively misleading? President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration. “You can’t just ...

It’s a week old now, but this Feministe post exhibits a type of category error that crops up in other contexts, so I figure it’s still worth saying a few words about it. The touchstone is this Rolling Stone postmortem of the battle over Caliornia’s Proposition 8, which concludes th...