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Kentucky Derby winner Orb remains on target for the Preakness
Associated PressBALTIMORE (AP) — Kentucky Derby winner Orb remains on track for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, when a win would set the stage for a Triple Crown try three weeks later in the Belmont Stakes. While a media frenzy is building around the Pimlico...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Shug McGaughey (racehorse), Churchill Downs, Itsmyluckyday (racehorse), Departing (racehorse)
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Jockeys call for increased disability insurance
Jerry Bailey can look back on a Hall of Fame jockey career that featured 5,892 victories but also the searing memory of 17 fractures, including a broken back, jaw and collarbone, and several busted ribs. Yet Bailey considers himself lucky. He never...
Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Laurel Park, The Jockey Club Incorporated, Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes
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Departing's entry in Preakness leads to homecoming for Nicole Stall
Nicole Stall boarded the first plane to Maryland she could catch when she heard of Benjamin Boniface's death last June. She was there to grieve the death of a boy she had known since his birth. But also to work. In the days after the 20-year-old's death...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Farms, Fair Grounds Corporation, Gulfstream Park, Triple Crown
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Orb captures 139th Kentucky Derby
The Baltimore SunClaude R. “Shug” McGaughey is a man who looks like the embodiment of the nickname that is all anybody calls him by. Short and unassuming, he said this week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, a race he has, like any...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Calvin Borel, Kentucky Derby, Horse and Harness Racing, Churchill Downs
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Orb wins first Derby for McGaughey
— Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey is a man who looks like the embodiment of the nickname that is all anybody calls him by. Short and unassuming, he said last week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, a race he, like any trainer,...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, Calvin Borel, Kentucky Derby, Horse and Harness Racing, Sports
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Odds are, Kentucky Derby will remain unpredictable
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mine That Bird spent the week tucked away in the Kentucky Derby Museum, not far from the track at Churchill Downs and the throngs wondering who will win the 139th run for the roses. The 2009 Derby winner seems to enjoy when...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, 60 Minutes (tv program), Louisville Cardinals, National Weather Service
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Clancy's Call: The Kentucky Derby
Bob Clancy's selections for the Kentucky Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville: Post time: 6:24 p.m.; TV: NBC; Distance: 1 1/4 miles; Purse: $2,199,800 VERRAZANO (4-1) has done nothing wrong in four career starts. The unbeaten son of More...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Mario Gutierrez
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Desormeaux looking to resurrect career
Kent Desormeaux has five mounts Friday when Arlington Park begins its five-month meeting and then he will be off to Churchill Downs, scene of the three greatest triumphs of his distinguished career. The Hall of Fame jockey will be traveling with a heavy...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Javier Castellano, Churchill Downs, Big Brown
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Orb is 7-2 morning-line favorite in 139th Kentucky Derby
The Baltimore SunLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky Derby favorite Orb comes from one of the country’s oldest racing families, with ties to the greatest horses of the era. The second choice, Verrazano, is a product of Todd Pletcher’s new-school empire; he’s...Tags: Calvin Borel, Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Joel Rosario, Triple Crown
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Louisville coach Rick Pitino watches his Kentucky Derby horse train
The Baltimore SunOn Wednesday at Churchill Downs, a crowd clad mainly in Louisville basketball shirts gathered at Barn 45 to watch Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino as he visited a horse of which he owns five percent. Pitino, a month removed from becoming the...Tags: Gorgui Dieng, Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Louisville Cardinals, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Jockey who won 1963 Kentucky Derby helped lead the way for Latinos
The Lexington Herald-LeaderBraulio Baeza was born in Panama and lives in New York, but his story is inextricably tied to Kentucky and Lexington. He won the Kentucky Derby 50 years ago aboard Chateaugay, a horse from Lexington's Darby Dan Farm. He was among the first Latino...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Overweight, Piracy
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Orb gallops to easy win in Florida Derby, Kentucky Derby next
Shug McGaughey is as Kentucky as blue grass. Every spring when the new crop of 2-year-olds comes into his barn, the veteran trainer said, he looks them over and wonders if one of them will be the one to fulfill his lifelong dream to win the Kentucky...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Fair Grounds Corporation, Animals, Gulfstream
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