The paunchy, greasy centaur mascot of the Preakness Stakes’ InfieldFest is being retired. Good riddance.

When Kegasus debuted last year, we wretched, but quickly realized that a pasty, beer-swilling half-man half-horse was the perfect anthropomorphic representation for Preakness Stakes. And now he has a sidekick. Awful.

This marketing abomination to the right here is Kegasus, the, uh, mascot — I guess? — of this May’s Preakness Stakes Infieldfest. For the six of you that are still reading this post, here’s the campaign’s website — which I highly recommend if you want to spend your lunch break gawking at a shirtless, slightly pudgy middle-aged man in a windswept wig encourage you to “be legendary.”

Photo by Tony DeFilippo. Sure, horse racing ranks somewhere between golf and the Tour de France on the list of most-clamored for sports in the American collective consciousness. But it’s still worth noting that the Preakness Stakes — also known as the “Race for the Black-Eyed Susans,” or “That One That Comes After The Kentucky Derby” — will go on this afternoon, in all of its state-owned glory at nearby Pimlico. Looking for stories…