Kentucky Derby

Dismember the Titans

A Horse is a Horse is a Horse, Of Course

Holy Horse Apples

The Joy Of Six

Top Lone Star Park Jockey Suspended in New Mexico For Cheating

Why Colonel John Should Be Your Kentucky Derby Favorite Tomorrow

Monday Morning Meanderings

At the Risk of Beating a Dead Horse, the Sport of Kings is in Trouble

Out to pasture

The Hungry Jockey--a North Dallas institution--fades in the stretch

Clear skies ahead

Fog City Diner endures a few rocky opening weeks, but promises great things to come

Video downs

Grand Prairie's horseless Lone Star Park offers the seedy side of the sport of kings

The Saint

Marlon St. Julien has beaten the odds at Lone Star Park. Now he's got the inside track to bigger things.

A horse is a course

in Belgium, anyway. But some West-Coast horse lovers have Texas' meat men--the guys who supply the little-known equine slaughter industry--on the run.

And they're off

in Belgium, anyway. But some West-Coast horse lovers have Texas' meat men--the guys who supply the little-known equine slaughter industry--on the run.

Playing The Ponies

Lone Star Park kicks off another season

Dark Horse

Is Steve Asmussen the greatest racehorse trainer in America, or is he a cheater?

The Super-trainer |Golden Doorstop |One More Kick for Oakley |Angry About A-Town |Fly Girls

Is Steve Asmussen the greatest racehorse trainer in America, or is he a cheater?

Title Nein!

Equal rights shouldn't constitute unequal results

Only the Great Die Young

Misery, mystery and a family's brave journey into life after death

Going South

What is a mint julep?

A Day at the Races

Plus: D-Day at the DMN; Dirty Deed

Horse With No Shame

Six Perfections gallops into Lone Star Park

Best Sports Event

Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships

Good as Cash

The unlikely story of the greatest Texas athlete you've never heard of

Knockout

PDNB Gallery gives a left hook with The Best of Neil Leifer

After the Fall

Marlon St. Julien regains his winning form at Lone Star Park

Rough Ride

Deirdre Panas pushes long odds to become Lone Star Park's first successful female jockey

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

Fluff

Dented reputation; Please, stop calling. Please; Dot-dot-dot stuff

Red, white, and slew

Snap, crackle, pop! It's the 4th.

Bad track record

Scandal taints the career of another Dallas athlete -- this time it's a horse, not a Cowboy

Big strides

Michelle Mullins trains winning horses. Oh, yeah--and she's a woman.

The Top 10 Most Impressive Individual Sports Achievements and 10 Cool Things I'd Like to See Achieved

Even back in '05 we knew he could hit. But like this?Last night was one of those nights. In a season of 82 Mavericks' games and 162 Rangers' games, we'll remember April 15. For it was last magical night that we were treated to two - almost simultaneous - rare individual athleti ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Mint Juleps

Few bartenders know how to make a decent mint julep and few people order the bourbon cocktail. There must be a connection.But which came first? It's a perfect cooler for blazing summer days (which seem unlikely to arrive anytime soon)--icy fresh, with a wicked punch--and one closely tied to the Amer ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Summertime, and the Living's Easy

Even these dark, ominous skies looming all around us, don't make it less true: today is May 1, and summer's right around the corner. That means patios, pools and mint juleps (or Cheladas) -- and another week of highlights from City of Ate.The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: A few trips t ... More >>

Nuggets-Mavs: Irrationally Optimistic Game 2 Preview

Danny Bollinger Dirk Nowitzki has a case of the old-school Bird Flu. Certain that my prediction of Thuggets in 5 is spot on, my head is bursting with pride. But desperately wanting my Mavericks to pull the upset, my heart is breaking with pain. Before tonight's pivotal Game 2 at De ... More >>

From the 1970s, a Forgotten (In More Ways Than One) Painting of the Convention Center

Bart Forbes doesn't recall the painting of his currently up for grabs on eBay; "boy, this is old," says the Dallas-based illustrator when reached by Unfair Park for a little backstory. Course, he's done plenty of pieces since the 1970s -- everything from stamps for the U.S. Postal Service to Kentuck ... More >>

Betting on the Ponies

Bart Forbes doesn't recall the painting of his currently up for grabs on eBay; "boy, this is old," says the Dallas-based illustrator when reached by Unfair Park for a little backstory. Course, he's done plenty of pieces since the 1970s -- everything from stamps for the U.S. Postal Service to Kentuck ... More >>

Lone Star Park: And They're Off!

​The crack of the bat. Allergies. Longer days. Bluebonnets. And, ah yes, the trumpet. Spring has definitely sprung. Tonight in Grand Prairie Lone Star Park kicks off another horse racing season with its $50,000 Premiere Stakes. The 6:30 post time will officially begin the track's 65-date seas ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Edgefest 2010 at Pizza Hut Park

Edgefest 2010Pizza Hut Park in FriscoMay 1, 2010Better than: watching the Kentucky Derby, although probably not if you were doing so from Churchill Downs' infield--because that's a party, folks.Phoenix headlined Edgefest's smaller stage on Saturday.​Believe it or not, there was music at Pizza Hut ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.6.11

Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End:*Mavericks-Lakers and Rangers-Yankees in our town in the same weekend. Delicious. If you had a front-row ticket to just one, which would it be? Are there really semi-sane humans who'd choose ... More >>

The Single Tax: Why Did Derby Couples Get a Sweet Deal?

Animal Kingdom won the Derby. Animal couplings got a sweet deal at a Dallas Derby fest.​And they're off...discriminating against singles again. That's right Park Place Volvo's Day at the Races 2011 charged single people more per ticket than couples. The Lee Park Junior Conservancy hosted the ... More >>

Dirk Nowitzki a Top 10 NBA Player of All-Time? Yes, But Only Among Players Without a Ring

​You know me, the biggest Dirk Nowitzki homer in town. But Rick Carlisle even made me cringe earlier this week by tabbing the Mavs' star as a top 10 NBA player "of all time."Carlisle has been great in these NBA Playoffs. Keeping his Mavericks mentally together after the Game 4 Portland Pratfal ... More >>

Hunter S. Thompson Lives Thanks to Dallas' Michael Minzer (and Tim Robbins)

Allen Ginsberg and Michael Minzer during recording sessions in 1987​Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer ... More >>

Makers Mark Lets You Take a Dip

​Tonight, The Ranch at Las Colinas (857 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving) and Makers Mark Bourbon will be joining forces and hosting a dip n' sip party. You know, the kind of party where you get tipsy and celebrate your inebriation by dipping random items into a vat of hot wax. Makers Mark w ... More >>