Winning Always Wins. Will Integrity Place, or Even Show?

Ahead of the Preakness, with horse racing’s best-known trainer mired in controversy, it seems the sport’s credibility is going down to the wire.

Thirty 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.