Saturday’s $200,000 San Vicente (G2) at Santa Anita is an important stop on the path to the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1).

Diane Crump, the pioneering jockey who in 1970 became the first female to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died Jan. 1, her ...

Oct 25, 1972; Jockey Diane Crump takes a horse to the track for a morning workout in 1972,at Churchill downs. Crump became ...

Diane Crump, who rode aboard Fathom in the 1970 Kentucky Derby, died Jan. 1. after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer.

Many local people — from Martha Layne Collins to Junior Bridgeman to Wayne Lucas — passed from the scene in Louisville and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Louisville community grieved the loss of many notable figures in 2025, including a local soul food restaurateur, a basketball legend and philanthropist, and a ...

The official Road to the Kentucky Derby will begin Sept. 13 at the home of America's greatest race as Churchill Downs stages the 44th running of the $300,000 Iroquois (G3) for 2-year-olds at one mile ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Jockey Ron Turcotte, who was aboard the great Secretariat for his 1973 Triple Crown, has died. He was 84. Churchill Downs posted a picture of Turcotte in the Winner's Circle ...

Retired jockey Ron Turcotte, remembered for riding Secretariat to win the 1973 Triple Crown during a Hall of Fame career, died of natural causes Aug. 22 in his Drummond home outside Grand Falls, New ...

Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby, ridden by Ron Turcotte.(Courtesy of the Kentucky Derby/Churchill Downs) Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who guided Secretariat to his record-smashing ...

Big Red raced his way into the hearts of Americans. Nobody had a better view of Secretariat’s run to glory than Ron Turcotte. The Hall of Fame jockey passed away on Friday. He was 84. The industry ...