EditorialAttendees watch a horse race at Churchill Downs on the day of the 149th Kentucky Derby race, in Louisville on Saturday, May 6, 2023. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
EditorialFans watch the race at Belmont Park, home of the Belmont Stakes, the longest horse race in North America in Elmont, N.Y. on June 5, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople in an area called the backyard react to the finish of a horse race on a TV screen at Saratoga Race Course, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in August 2021. (Amanda Picotte/The New York Times)
EditorialRunners compete in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase final at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialNew York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Scott M. Stringer addresses a news conference in New York on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, as his wife Elyse Buxbaum looks on. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)