From the category archives:

The Old Nag

by kara on July 5, 2013

The great Lava Man preparing for his fourth of july BBQ at Hollywood Park

Here come the little guys

by kara on May 4, 2013

  I’m unapologetic in my love of jockeys. For you, maybe the horse is the thing. The jockeys are weird  – miniature, enigmatic humans in baggy knickers and candy colored silks. Scoffed at for their size, these humans are freaks of flexibility and endurance, shrewd tacticians with finely tuned internal clocks and almost spooky sensorial […]

by kara on April 16, 2013

for alexina

Philly Girl.

by kara on April 5, 2013

“Philly Girl” with breathing device courtesy of @MikeMachowsky ! pic.twitter.com/aW0PEVwhB6

by kara on March 2, 2013

  with Carolyn Conley and Interaction on the backstretch at Santa Anita

by kara on January 23, 2013

Fivla and Vitamin, cardigan-sweater-wearing Shetland ponies, are the official ambassadors of VisitScotland’s new campaign celebrating Year of Natural Scotland. via Gawker

by kara on August 23, 2012

  Doe-eyed, dapple grey champion, Z Fortune, passed away this morning at Chino Valley Equine Hospital after a difficult battle with post colic surgery infection.

by kara on July 15, 2012

  THE OLD NAG @joedrape twitter edition

by kara on July 12, 2012

From The Old Nag I’m posting a letter to the New York Times from Richard Shapiro, rather than my own, because it is so much better  – and less snarky -than mine.   from Paulick.com, Paulick Report Staff | 07.12.2012 | 8:34am SHAPIRO LETTER TO NY TIMES: O’NEILL PORTRAYAL ‘WRONG AND MISGUIDED’ The following letter was sent […]

Horse Hater Proven be an Ignorant Liar.

by kara on July 11, 2012

from Bloodhorse.com “I’ll Have Another’s Treatment ‘Routine Care’ By Ron Mitchell and Eric Mitchell I’ll Have Another retirement ceremony. photo: Steve Heuertz Three veterinarians who reviewed the treatment regiment of I’ll Have Another between the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes found nothing out of the ordinary and took exception to characterizations in a July 11 New York Times […]