NY Times · May 13, 2021
Winning Always Wins. Will Integrity Place, or Even Show?
Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, where the Preakness Stakes will be run on Saturday.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York TimesThirty dead horses at a California track. Federal indictments accusing more than two dozen trainers and veterinarians from Florida to New York of doping their animals. All in the past two and a half years.
Is there anything the sport of thoroughbred racing holds sacred?
On Sunday, we found out: the Kentucky Derby.