On Monday, after the magazine had gone to press, the horse died of a heart attack.
Overall, the press the horse received was viewed as giving a needed boost to the sport.
There are plenty of stories circulating that might be expected to hurt Obama's political prospects, but given the press's horse-race biases none of them are powerful enough to pull the spotlight away from Romney's flailings: They're either big but not new enough (the lousy economy) or new but not big enough (the administration's shifting Libya stories) to break through the campaign coverage.
Hey! Were you aware that for a long while now, internet scribe Matt Drudge has been active, leading the press, like horses, to water?
These pressed tin horses, big enough to ride on, were 'most wanted' toys in the 1950s, if you were four or five years old.
In the past couple of weeks, as part of my duties as deputy letters editor, I have received requests for, among other things, air coolers, conference tables, fruit presses, saw horses, boxing gloves, T-shirts, bibles (hard cover), slabs, dock doors, hockey sticks, conveyor belts, fork spreaders, flyers, sod cutters, soil grapples, sewage grinders and pedicure machines.
The press likes a horse race; the press likes outsize personalities; the press favors an underdog; and the press even takes a strange sort of delight in being ruthlessly attacked.
One day he'll drop behind the pace and come running at the end of a race, and on another he'll breathe down the neck of a speed horse, press a fast pace and take no prisoners.
Some days, the number of horses in the U.S. facing neglect, starvation or impending death seems insurmountable, but we press on — the horses need us and rely on us.
Videos already shown in court have included footage of trotting horses, press conferences in Kenya and a documentary from Somalia.
