Churchill Downs, the site of the Kentucky Derby, doesn't take statues lightly. There stands one of Aristides, the first winner from 1875, and there's another, which was erected 134 years later.

The first Saturday in May is near. That means it’s time for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, which is set for May 4. As the oldest continuously held sporting event in American history, the ...

Kentucky Derby Watch is updated weekly by Daily Racing Form's David Aragona and David Grening ...

In his first and only interview since breaking down at the Preakness Stakes on May 20, Barbaro spoke to ESPN.com about that horrifying day at Pimlico, the surgery to save his life and his ...

Roy Jackson, owner of the 3-year-old thoroughbred, Barbaro, that won the 2006 running of the Kentucky Derby, took home a big chunk of the race’s purse. But the horse owner also gets to take home a new ...

No evidence exists that Barbaro had underlying bone damage. In fact, Matz, his trainer, was criticized before the Kentucky Derby for not running him enough to have him in top form. That complaint ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Early Saturday morning, about 10 hours before he would win the first Kentucky Derby he entered, racehorse trainer Michael Matz summed up his life path to a group of tourists ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There will be a $1 million bonus at the Kentucky Derby if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths - the margin of Barbaro's victory ...

Trainer Michael Matz believed what he couldn't see - that Union Rags had a strong final workout amid a field of Kentucky Derby hopefuls that dotted Churchill Downs on Saturday. When he was told the ...

The chief surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center said the Kentucky Derby winner has developed laminitis in his left hind foot. The potentially deadly ailment, caused by putting ...