Horse racing in the United States

Javier Castellano, atop Mage, parades on the track before participating in the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby.Photo: Julio Cortez (AP)Last year, Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby at 80-1 odds, like a kamikaze to horse racing. Not…

Here at Deadspin, we take a wait-and-see approach to covering horse racing. Every year, someone will pitch a Kentucky Derby preview and either get laughed out of the writer’s room or ignored. The only reason we wrote about the 2022…

Sonny Leon and Rich Strike.Image: Getty ImagesI wish Vegas would’ve given the public odds on how long Rich Strike’s feel-good story remained feel-good. While it didn’t take a turn to Cancel Town in the first 15 minutes after the race, it…