Rich Strike has come in as the surprise winner of the 2022 Kentucky Derby. The horse’s triumph was historic in nature, coming as the second-biggest upset in the 148-year history of the race.
Rich Strike only entered the lineup for the Kentucky Derby on Friday, after the dropout of Ethereal Road, coming into the race…
Medina Spirit, the three-year-old thoroughbred racehorse whose 2021 win at the Kentucky Derby drew controversy when he later tested positive for a corticosteroid, died this morning after collapsing after a track workout at Santa Anita Park in California.
According to the Paulick Report, a horseracing news publication…
On Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel offered his two breakdown of former president Donald Trump’s latest missives, also discussing a controversy surrounding Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit.
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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit has tested positive for betamethasone, a corticosteroid, the horse's trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday morning.
Medina Spirit has not yet been disqualified, Baffert said, pending another test. If that test is positive, Medina Spirit would become the third Derby winner ever to be…
Right now, it really bites to be Essential Quality and the 93rd Academy Awards.
Things are gloomy for the former because the odds-on favorite to win this year's Kentucky Derby finished fourth in Saturday’s 147th running. As for the latter, after crashing to an all-time viewership low of 10.4 million for its April 25…
On Saturday, Medina Spirit won the 147th Kentucky Derby, which saw fans return to Churchill Downs, after a year away due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The three-year-old race horse, trained by two-time Triple Crown winner Bob Baffert, was ridden to victory by John R. Velazquez, besting two-year-old Essential Quality, who…
UPDATE: In an upset, 8-1 shot Authentic won the Kentucky Derby, holding off the charge of favorite Tiz the Law down the stretch and clocking in for the victory at 2.61.
EARLIER: There are no fans allowed at today’s running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. But there’s plenty…
The Kentucky Derby producers have changed their minds about having fans attend the Run for the Roses.
The Churchill Downs race, scheduled for Sept. 5, had planned to have a limited number of socially distanced fans attend. But the Louisville, Kentucky area has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases, causing the track to…
The Kentucky Derby will be postponed until Sept. 5, organizer Churchill Downs said Tuesday morning. It was slated to run May 2.
It would be the 146th Derby and is the first time it won’t be held on the first Saturday in May since 1945. At the time the government issued a ban on horse racing due to World War II.
The…
NBC Sports' Saturday coverage of the controversial 145th Kentucky Derby on NBC, followed immediately by the primetime Columbus Blue Jackets-Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Playoff Game 5, delivered multiple overnight ratings milestones, according to data provided by Nielsen.
At the Kentucky Derby, heavy favorite…
Continuing his epic tweetstorm of the last few days, President Donald Trump kept up the pace Sunday with a massive amount of tweeting and retweeting. The focus was mainly his usual themes of immigration and the witch hunt, but he also found time to address an injustice in the sporting world.
At Saturday’s Kentucky Derb…