That enough to capture the state of a sport and the venue that hosts one of its crown jewels? “To him, this race was just a game,” Kaymarie Kreidel said from atop her horse, Hunter. I’m not an expert — or even a novice, frankly — in horse racing. She couldn’t insert herself to corral the wayward horse and interfere with the race — even though the horse, galloping alongside the field, was by definition interfering with it. But in what might be one of the last Preaknesses staged here, 2019 will be the year a horse ran the race without a rider, and that fit in with the current state of the sport.

Source: Washington Post May 19, 2019 01:27 UTC