Kentucky Derby

MAKING TRACKS

Join the crowd at the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

I'll Have Another Bails On Belmont; No Triple Crown This Year

If you were hoping to see a Triple Crown winner this year, we have some bad news: I'll Have Another, the winner of both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, won't be running in the Belmont Stakes.Trainer Doug O'Neil announced on the Dan Patrick Radio Show this morning that the colt has a "little pr ... More >>

Assemblyman Micah Kellner: Let's Bet at NYC Bars Again

The more, the merrier. Or, in this case, the more vices, the better. At least that's what New York Assemblyman Micah Kellner thinks and just in time for the Kentucky Derby and Cinco De Mayo.In an interview today on the radio station WCBS 880, he introduced his plan to bring back the betting kio ... More >>

The Cocktail We Drank 'All Fucking Day Long'

The Mint Julep! It's a fantastic drink and one to sip all year, but these days it only gets love leading up to the Kentucky Derby. Troy Patterson at Slate gives us a history as well as hilariously elaborate directions for how to make it:

PONY UP

My old Kentucky home 
in Brooklyn

BEST OF NYC®
Wide World of Sports

The national pastime of the U.S.? The sports capital of the U.S.? If you don’t know the score, we’ll tell you.

Remembering Bill Gallo, 1922-2011

​In today's Daily News you can find pages of tributes to Bill Gallo, who died Tuesday at the age of 88. My personal favorite is from Yogi Berra, who said, "It's hard to imagine News without him." Because the N in that quote is capped, I assume Yogi meant the Daily News, but I'm sure he also me ... More >>

Kentucky Derby Will Be Decadent, Depraved

​Hunter S. Thompson went so you don't have to: The rest of the day blurs into madness. The rest of that night too. And all the next day and night. Such horrible things occurred that I can't bring myself even to think about them now, much less put them down in print. I was lucky to get out at ... More >>

Secretariat's Magic Makes Hardened Horse Players Weep

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 14, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 24 A horse for all seasons by Joe Flaherty A group of us, accompanied by the baggage of New York blase, gathered early at Penn Station Saturday for an odyssey to Belmont Park. The onus lay with the horse ... More >>

A Goy in Wonderland

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 25, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 21 A goy in wonderland By Joe Flaherty The lamentable thing about life is that it is devoid of fanfare. Man's odyssey more times than not is heralded by a kazoo rather than a trumpet. The spiritual milest ... More >>

BOW-WOW-WOW

Honoring man’s best friend

The Huffington Post Gets Blacker, Howard Kurtz Gets Paid as Press Clips Returns

​Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>

Vic Ziegel, One of the Best

Ziegel​Vic Ziegel of the New York Daily News died Friday, July 23 of lung cancer, still young at 72. He was one of the good guys. When I started regularly for the Village Voice in the mid-1980s, Ziegel was one of the few writers from a New York daily to accept me as a colleague when I'd se ... More >>

The Times Intrigued With New (and Flimsy) Cycling Cheat

Cancellara on the Mur​The New York Times sure is intrigued by the notion that Fabian Cancellara, one of the world's strongest cyclists, may have concealed a tiny electric motor in his bicycle to help him win two of the sport's most legendary races this spring. Why is it we can't help thinking ... More >>

Belmont Stakes

DERBY STYLE

Let your Southern side come out to play

The Race Is On... To the Perfect Non-Traditional Mint Julep

In honor of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday (and considering our recent induction into the Secret Sherry Society), we thought we'd feature this non-traditional take on the tipple traditionally enjoyed at the event: the Mint Julep. Bitter Orange Julep 2 1/2 oz Clement VSOP Rum 1 oz Clement Creo ... More >>

IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE

No, it's a ridiculous-sized hat

Horsin’ Around

A dead horse and an art dealer star in Sam Shepard’s latest

The First Saturday in May: Spellbound, With Horses

Could use more humans, though

Belmont Park's Backstretch Plays Home To a Most Unusual Day-Care Center

Is there a stranger location for a day-care in New York? Don't bet on it

The Mint Masquerade

The not-so-girly julep makes Derby Day one smooooth ride

The End of Gonzo

A savage journey in search of the legacy of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Nation

Beauty and the Big Shots

The Sexcapades and Politics Behind New York’s Bogus Catholic Museum

Betting Man

Meet the ‘Degenerate Horse Player’ Who Runs the Daily Racing Form

Black in the Saddle

The great African American jockeys are riding back into history