kentucky derby

Don your finest bonnet and head to the races.

The ponies race this Saturday; here's where to catch "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports."

Fancy people wearing fancy things!

It's time to briefly pretend to care about horse racing again!

This year, the Kentucky Derby coincides Cinco de Mayo, and the two very different celebrations will presumably give birth to one epic fiesta we're dubbing Cinco de Derby. (Kentucky de Mayo doesn't focus-group so well.)

While we weren't crazy about avoiding eye contact with the grumbling, chain-smoking masses outside the OTB on Delancey street, it looks even SADDER when it's dormant.

Like the Superbowl and the North Brooklyn Kickball Championships, for most of

Top photograph of Big Brown galloping to victory by Al Behrman/AP;

Untitled photo of race at Belmont, by Ray Haddad at flickr

We were encouraged to hear a statue would be unveiled in Central