Animal Kingdom, who won the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, is favored to win Saturday’s Preakness Stakes.

Read more:
Shackleford wins Preakness Stakes

Shackleford won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, beating Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom by three quarters of a length. Shackleford paid $27.20 on a $2 bet to win, despite reports that he was agitated leading up to the race. It is the first…

See more here:
Shackleford Wins Preakness

Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom is an early 2-1 favorite to win the 136th running of the Preakness on Saturday. Read full article > >

Continued here:
Animal Kingdom trains for Preakness

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police were within their rights to enter the home of a Kentucky man after the police smelled marijuana. Police in Lexington, Ky., said they burst into Hollis King’s apartment because they smelled marijuana and were…

See the article here:
Supreme Court: Police Don’t Need Warrant

Barry Irwin, the owner of Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, is leading the charge to eliminate drugs from horse racing.

Read more:
Tough Talk After Winning the Derby

LOUISVILLE — Trainer Graham Motion and jockey John Velazquez had miserable luck this week at Churchill Downs in the lead-up to the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby. At the start of the week, Motion — who trains his horses in Fair Hill, Md. — lost what everyone believed was his best horse, Toby’s Corner, to a leg injury. By mid-week, Robbie Albarado, the jockey for Motion’s second-best horse, Animal Kingdom, suffered a broken nose that put his status for the Derby in doubt. By the end of the week, Velazquez lost what looked like his best shot at an elusive Derby victory when Uncle Mo , a horse everyone was calling the most talented 3-year-old in the country, had to be scratched with a mysterious intestinal illness. It marked the third straight year Velazquez was slated to ride one of the favorites, only to lose him to an injury before the race. Read full article > >

More here:
Kentucky Derby: Animal Kingdom wins 137th running

Nineteen horses and their riders geared up on Saturday for the nation’s most celebrated horse race — and first leg of the Triple Crown — as an estimated 150,000 spectators gathered to watch the 137th edition of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Originally posted here:
20-1 longshot wins Kentucky Derby

Raise your Mint Julep in a toast to the unexpected winner! Though he had never run a race on dirt before, Animal Kingdom finished the Kentucky Derby in first place, with Nehro close behind in second and Mucho Macho Man and Shackleford taking third and…

Here is the original post:
‘Animal Kingdom’ Wins Kentucky Derby

Residents of Kentucky along the Mississippi River were allowed to return home on Saturday, as officials say they have seen the worst of the flooding. However, Memphis is not expected to see the river peak until mid-week. Record river levels are…

Follow this link:
Memphis Floods Worsen

Rosie Napravnik will become only the sixth woman in 137 years to ride in the Kentucky Derby, and is intent to show that neither she nor her colt, Pants on Fire, are mere historical footnotes.

Read more:
A Talented Jockey Is No Longer a Secret

The 86th running of the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase race at Great Meadow in The Plains and the 137th Kentucky Derby in Louisville both take place May 7, but preparing horses for the track is a daily event involving early-rising trainers and their mounts. Read full article > >

Visit link:
Training days

President Obama privately and personally thanked some of the Navy SEAL squad that killed Osama bin Laden in a trip on Friday to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Obama awarded the team with a Presidential Unit Citation, and congratulated them: “We are going to…

See the original post:
Obama Privately Thanks Navy SEALs

For the first time in a decade, not a single winner of the six major Kentucky Derby prep races earned a Beyer Speed Figure of at least 100, considered the standard for a high-quality stakes champion.

Read the original post:
Derby Field Lacks Speed of Horses in the Past

LOUISVILLE — No one can say with any real certainty whether or not Uncle Mo will be in the starting gate on Saturday when the Kentucky Derby is run for the 137th time at Churchill Downs. He’s still battling a gastrointestinal infection that could result in a scratch right up until post time. But even if he does run, there is a good chance he won’t be the favorite. For now, that honor goes to Dialed In, the horse Churchill Downs handicapper Mike Battaglia picked as the 4-1 morning line favorite on Wednesday after the Nick Zito-trained colt drew the favorable eighth stall in the Derby post position draw. Read full article > >

The rest is here:
Kentucky Derby 2011: Dialed In is early favorite over Uncle Mo, who is ‘50-50’ to race

The field for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby could be the worst in decades. Except for Uncle Mo — the champion colt whose current form is suspect and who may not get to the starting gate — not one of the 19 other entrants would rate as a serious contender in an average Derby. Three-year-old crops vary from year to year, of course, and racing fans periodically lament the quality of the colts in the Triple Crown series. But this year’s group comes on the heels of mediocre Derby fields in 2009 and 2010, a trend that raises an uncomfortable question. While human athletes are getting bigger, stronger and faster, benefiting from improved training techniques and nutrition, are America’s thoroughbred racehorses getting worse? And, if so,why? Read full article > >

Continued here:
The slowness of this year’s Kentucky Derby field is unprecedented