The Kentucky Derby is a strange place. Churchill Downs is a strange place. Louisville is a strange place. So here’s what I saw, thought, heard and smelled during a marathon day capped off by the most ...

Five weeks after fracturing his shoulder, Alvarado and a hard-charging Sovereignty run down favored Journalism to win the ...

It was the Kentucky Derby that had proved elusive for Godolphin and its founder Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Starting with Worldly Manner, it had run a dozen horses in America’s most famous ...

Journalism, who went off at 3-1, followed a similar path through the field as winner Sovereignty and made his charge down the backstretch at the same moment. As the two horses began to separate from ...

In Alvarado’s absence, Manny Franco rode Sovereignty in the Florida Derby, finishing second. Alvarado told FanDuel Racing in an interview that his shoulder injury “was something minimal,” but it had ...

The prize for the winner, which will be split to compensate the jockey, is part of a larger $5 million purse awarded to the top finishers. As such, Sovereignty will take the $3.1 million, leaving $1 ...

Sovereignty over Journalism is a result that sounds like @realDonaldTrump scripted it,” one social media user wrote.

Sovereignty has won the 151st Kentucky Derby, beating the favorite Journalism on a sloppy track soaked with rain at Churchill ...

Sovereignty won the 151st edition of the Grade 1, $5 million Kentucky Derby on Saturday night in Louisville, besting a field of 19 horses beneath the Twin Spires on a sloppy track at Churchill Downs.

Between the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby, hopeful wagerers enjoy far more than “the most exciting two minutes in ...