Pictures Of The Day

DARK HORSE. The horses are silhouetted as they clear the water jump during the Grolsch Conditional Jockey’ Handicap Steeplechase at Wincanton Racecourse in England.  (Photo by Julian Herbert/Action Images/ZUMAPRESS.COM)

ZOMBIE POWER. Maryland Terrapins fans hold up  signs before a college basketball game against the Duke Blue Devils on February 2, 2011 at the Comcast Arena in College Park, Maryland. One depicts Duke star Kyle Singler as a zombie. Ironic as Singler killed the Terps with 22 points and a dominant second half.  (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images North America)

THE FULL BLOWN WHEELECTOMY.  Hey, fellas, she’s much faster with wheels…Just a tip that might help.  Here, Mechanics of the team push forward the chassis of the new McLaren Mercedes MP4-26 car at Potsdamer Platz on February 4, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.  Evidently, the “tyres” have their own union and contractual arrangements for separate travel and media coverage.  (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Bongarts/Getty Images)

A DIFFERENT KIND OF HORSE POWER.  Sam Waley Cohen riding Way Back When , third from left, would go on to win the European Breeders Fund Mares National Hunt Novice Hurdle at the Wincanton racecourse in England.  (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)