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Criticism, Compassion, And One Last Win For Homeboykris

On the morning of May 21, Jan Klein was sitting in a suite at Gulfstream Park. A regular at the South Florida racetrack, she settled in to watch the first from Pimlico on Preakness day. Six months earlier, Klein had claimed her first racehorse. She’d grown up riding and showing horses, and she’s long traveled…

June 17, 2016 in Preakness 2016.

Equine injury and mainstream media: a bad exacta on Preakness day

Horse racing found itself in the spotlight on Saturday afternoon but not quite in the way that it wanted to. The day was supposed to be about the 141st running of the Preakness Stakes, about the undefeated Nyquist trying to keep his record intact, about the possibility of another Triple Crown run at Belmont in…

May 23, 2016 in Equine health, Preakness 2016.

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