The oldest continuously run sporting event in the United States, the Kentucky Derby is America's most famous horse race, rich in tradition and celebrated by racing fans throughout the world. In May, 1875, Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark, taking...

The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter miles (2 km) at...

Field for Saturday's 133rd Kentucky Derby, with post position, horse's name, jockey's name and odds: 1. Sedgefield Leparoux 50-1 ...

Street Sense roared from next-to-last in a 20-horse field to win the Kentucky Derby, putting trainer Carl Nafzger back in the winner's circle 17 years after his first visit."I can't believe it, I can't believe it. This is the toughest race in the world to...

Kentucky Derby purists cling to these truths: a horse can't win if he didn't run as a 2-year-old or if he comes into the race with three or fewer career starts.It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since...

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his gruesome breakdown at last year's Preakness, ending an eight-month ordeal that prompted an outpouring of support across the country.A series of ailments _ including laminitis in the left rear hoof, an abscess in the...