Last year's GI Kentucky Oaks victress Good Cheer (Medaglia d'Oro) got her 2026 campaign off to a winning start with a stylish victory in the Iowa Distaff Friday night at Prairie Meadows. Winless since her victory in the aforementioned Spring…
With litigation involving prediction markets widespread in the U.S., Kentucky is suddenly at the center of multiple lawsuits involving state and private efforts to prevent those businesses from cutting into the state's licensed gambling market share.
The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation License Review Committee does not advance issuing Kentucky racing licenses to Thoroughbred trainer Juan Vazquez and jockey Patrick Valenzuela.
Kentucky-bred Scandinavia provided trainer Aidan O'Brien with his 100th winner at Royal Ascot by edging out defending winner Trawlerman in the final strides of a scintillating Gold Cup Stakes (G1) June 18 at Ascot Racecourse.
Equine medical director Dr. George Mundy says June 9 during a Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation meeting that Kentucky will reduce the amount of time before a horse can work off the vets' list from 14 days to seven.
Once upon a time, the Preakness Stakes (G1) used to be an encore in Baltimore. A collection of top finishers in the Kentucky Derby (G1) would move on to Pimlico Race Course to continue old or new rivalries in the…
Trainer Cherie DeVaux welcomed America’s Best Racing to join her for the journey on Kentucky Derby Day May 2 at Churchill Downs with Golden Tempo culminating with the thrill of watching Golden Tempo rally to an historic victory.
Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look back at the Kentucky Derby & the Churchill Downs Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Golden Tempo wins the 2026 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 2, 2026.
NBC Sports' presentation of Saturday's history-making 152nd Kentucky Derby delivered the most-watched "Run for the Roses" on record with an average of 19.6 million viewers on NBC and Peacock - topping by 11% last year's Derby audience.