Horses are dropping like flies at Aqueduct racetrack. Since racing began November 30th, 16 horses have been injured and euthanized, most recently on Wednesday, when Hillsboro Bay injured her leg on the inner dirt track and had to be put down. The mile-long inner dirt track uses a special type of dirt over which races are run during the winter months, and it appears to be especially treacherous for thoroughbreds. The New York Racing Association [NYRA] announced that it would move races to the main track two weeks earlier than expected—just as Governor Andrew Cuomo sent a letter to the NYRA insisting they hire an outside investigator. more ›

As we know, black-eyed peas are lucky when eaten on the first day of the year, but one man who couldn't find any was Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The team's owner was at Melba's in Harlem on Sunday, according to the NY Post, but the comfort food restaurant didn't have what he was looking for. The paper reports back that while he got collard greens (representing luck in money), "staff at the West 114th Street eatery omitted the luck portion of the meal. Owner Melba Wilson said, 'I feel a little guilty. I only had mixed rice and peas. On his way out, he gave me a hug and said he wished we had the black-eyed peas because he needed luck." more ›

Count Dr. Lisa Li is one of the lucky ones. On Sunday, she was driving to work at St. Clare Hospital in Boonton, New Jersey, when Kinnelon Road collapsed and engulfed her GMC Yukon. The road opened up because of the rushing waters of Hurricane Irene, but somehow, Li managed to escape unharmed. more ›

Everybody is getting suspiciously lucky lately: after yesterday's report that a college kid from Florida won a furnished condo in the Financial District thanks to a HGTV pop-up contest, today brings news that a Manhattan man won $1.8 million in the Powerball lottery last week after buying nine tickets with the same numbers at an UWS bodega. Miguel Rivera, 53, of the UES, won nine second-place prizes of $200,000. He was but one Powerball number away from hitting the full $95.3 million grand prize. Since we're big believers in the power of three, we're taking the rest of the day off to go on a scratch tickets scavenger hunt. more ›

Ex-Road Ruler, and current-prankster, Jake Bronstein was back on the streets recently. This time he wasn't trying to get laid by wearing a wookie suit on the subway, he was getting strangers lucky! more ›