BALTIMORE - No rail for Bo-rail. Don't look for jockey Calvin Borel to be riding the rail in the Preakness. He's so confident in Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver - even boasting the colt will win the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Calvin Borel has spent the last 25 years grinding out a living as a jockey by getting to the track early, staying late and taking whatever work he could get. The day after arguably ...

From the time jockey Javier Castellano won the 2023 Kentucky Derby riding Mage, an unhappy mantle passed to Irad Ortiz Jr.: the best active jockey who has not won the Run for the Roses. A product of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Derby Day is high-risk, high-reward. Through all the weeks of warmups, one special crew on the track makes sure both animal and rider stay safe in the cold, the rain or ...

When the Triple Crown comes to a close and summer begins at racetracks across the country, fans and participants in the Thoroughbred racing industry start searching the 2-year-old crop for the next ...

In 1912, Flamma became the first of five fillies to win the Kentucky Oaks after also running in the Kentucky Derby. It was the biggest romp in Oaks history, as Rachel Alexandra and jockey Calvin Borel ...

1903 — 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker riding Judge Himes wins in 2:09. 1904 — Laska Durnell becomes the first woman to own a Kentucky Derby starter and winner when longshot Elwood wins the 30th Run ...

Greg Blasi’s 2 1/2 decades as a Churchill Downs outrider taught him to be ready for pretty much everything. There are certain events no one can prepare for. That was the case when Blasi, who has ...

Dr. Leonard Blach, co-owner of Mine That Bird, 50-1 longshot winner of the 2009 Kentucky Derby, died on Oct. 26. He was 90 years old. Together with his longtime friend Mark Allen, trainer Chip Woolley ...

Brian Hernandez Jr. spent the leadup to the Kentucky Derby watching replays of winning rides by fellow jockeys to see what it would take to get the job done with Mystik Dan, particularly those of Hall ...