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I’ll Have Another ridden by Mario Gutierrez comes down the final stretch on his way to winning the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 5, 2012 in Louisville, Kentucky. (May 4, 2012 – Source: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images North America) BALTIMORE (AP) – Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another evidently loves [...]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Police suspect homicide in the death of a racetrack worker whose body was discovered just yards from the barn of this year’s Kentucky Derby winner, although investigators said there was no apparent link to the storied annual race. Authorities planned to conduct an autopsy Monday for 48-year-old Adan Fabian Perez, a [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — I’ll Have Another looked like just another horse at the Kentucky Derby. Until the final furlong, that is. That’s when the chestnut colt — sold for a paltry $11,000, ridden by a rookie jockey hardly anyone knew and stuck in an outside post — blazed past highly regarded Bodemeister to win [...]
Believe You Can ridden by Rosie Napravnik leads the pack during the 138th running of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 4, 2012 in Louisville, Kentucky. (May 3, 2012 – Source: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images North America) (Reuters) – Rosie Napravnik became the first woman jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks when she steered [...]
Union Rags is riden by Julien Laparoux during the morning excercise session in preparation for the 138th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on April 28, 2012 in Louisville, Kentucky. (April 27, 2012 – Source: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images North America) (PhatzRadio / USA Today / NY Post) — The field for Saturday’s 138th Kentucky Derby is [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — LOUISVILLE – It is almost a rite of spring that the Kentucky Derby arrives, and the quality of the 3-year-old class is questioned. Not this year. “I think this is the toughest Derby field I’ve seen, I mean in a long time,” said three-time Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert. MORE: Kentucky [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Dr. Kendall Hansen wasn’t worried when the Kentucky Derby draw came down to No. 14 spot or the dreaded No. 1 hole. He figured his good fortune would continue. “I don’t know why I just felt lucky. I was pulling for that from the beginning – 14 or 15,” said Hansen, [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — LOUISVILLE – In all his years training horses, Hamilton Smith never branched out from his Maryland home base, where he handles dozens of horses at a time, mostly claimers. From time to time, he’d think about what it would be like to have a contender for the Kentucky Derby, but [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — LOUISVILLE – Michael Matz knows the feeling of watching his horse enter the spotlight on the first Saturday in May, having brought Barbaro to the fore in 2006. “I was lucky enough to have one horse run real well here,” Matz said Monday as he stood in his barn on [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia will wait until post positions are drawn Wednesday to decide whether he will establish Bodemeister or Union Rags as the early favorite for the 138th Kentucky Derby. “If Bodemeister has a bad draw, then it’s got to be Union Rags,” Battaglia told USA TODAY Sports. [...]
