Eclipse Award and Kentucky Derby winner Genuine Risk dies at age 31.

What a miserable fucking waste of a courageous horse.

This is happening too often.

neutronjockey likes the filly.

I have to say...

...I like the filly too.

My, she's a strapping lass.

Home safely from KGB, where a good time was had by all. Tomorrow, stillsostrange and I head out for Torontograd, in the Soviet Canuckistanian Republic of Ontariovakia. It's a ten-hour drive. Hopefully Eunice will be strong.

In other news, Michael Swanwick is Flogging Babel.

Which sounds like a euphemism for something.

But if you like the weird writing mechanics posts here, his blog looks to be more of the same....

John Henry goes for a walk. (via buymeaclue. Yes, it made me sniffle. Deal.

Now that was a horse race.

Tied for the fastest Preakness ever, I think. And no Triple Crown this year either.

via buymeaclue,

John Henry, the stubbornest race horse in America (and one of the winningest) turns 32 today.

Still too mean to die.

Grand old bastard.

(Come to think of it, he's five years older than Matthew Gray Gubler, whose birthday this also is.)

Barbaro!

Seven lengths and going away.

They still make me tear up when they do that.