Sovereignty jockey Junior Alvarado nearly missed the Kentucky Derby with an injury. He returned just in time to win it.

The heart averages 10 to 12 pounds (4.5-5.4 kg), or about 1% of the animal's body weight, compared with half a percent for ...

Neighborhoods around Churchill Downs took advantage of the crowds and sold their yards and driveways for parking to race fans ...

We had all been here before. Six years ago, on a Churchill Downs racing surface the consistency of peanut butter and under skies the color of ...

(Reuters) -Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, in a thrilling fight to the ...

The two colts hooked up for a sixteenth of a mile for a thrilling battle against the backdrop of 147,406 roaring and ...

The Kentucky Derby is a strange place. Churchill Downs is a strange place. Louisville is a strange place. So here’s what I saw, thought, heard and smelled during a marathon day capped off by the most ...

Sovereignty beat favourite Journalism to win the 151st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. The colt, ridden by Junior Alvarado ...

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