LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - The 139th running of The Kentucky Derby was run on a field that was muddier than the town scenes in the western AMC TV series Hell On Wheels.
Orb who was favored at 6 to 1 odds started the race in 19th place out of 19 horses...
Each year now Tom Brady puts together an elite group of former Patriots who go to the Kentucky Derby with him.
Usually Tom has an opportunity to sport his latest hairdo and don his most fancy tie and coat, all in an effort to avoid looking like a...
Louisville, KY - One of the year's first extraterrestrial field etchings has appeared overnight at the world famous racetrack's saddling enclosure ahead of Saturday's 139th renewal of the Kentucky Derby.
Groundsmen said this morning they'd noticed...
FRANKFORT, Kentucky - The Kentucky State Senate has just voted on a bill that has been hailed as one of the greatest bills to ever be approved in the history of the state.
State Senator Audrey Fayella Prissprinti, 49, [R-Paducah], stated that it i...
Kentucky - The discovery of an unidentified body in a barn close to the Churchill Downs track yesterday is sparking fears of a racing death hex.
Police sources said the remains of a male were discovered in Lousiville trainer Angel Montano Senior'...
Louisville, Kentucky - Conspiracy nuts said today the jockey's 2010 model was a dead ringer for Tiger Woods' own SUV that triggered the Elin Nordegren Night Clubbing rumpus.
The 24 year-old rider was found on Tuesday, slumped behind the wheel of h...
Churchill Downs - Awesome Northern Dancer bloodlines are part of the trophy for an anonymous UK buyer who's has snapped up Saturday's Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom for a cool $50 million.
"It's a present for my wife," Mr X of First Big Oil...
Bluegrass, Kentucky - Uncle Mo, the first openly gay horse to ever run in the Kentucky Derby, has been scratched due to illness and will not be running on Derby Day.
Uncle Mo's owners and jockey expressed sadness and dismay that Mo, a pack favorit...
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who unwisely bolted the Senate floor for a quick trip to the loo today, may now forever lose his plush Senate seat to Rep. Joe Sestak, who apparently has better bladder control.
Mr. Specter, 80, lost his 'di...
LOUISVILLE - The 135th running of The Kentucky Derby was won by a relatively unknown gelding horse from Gallup, New Mexico, named Shoot The Bird.
The odds on Shoot The Bird winning the Kentucky Derby were 500 to 1.
Winning jockey Calbert Bordel...
Churchill Downs - (CIA Trojan Whorse Ass Mess): Stalking whorse extraordinaire West Side Bernie Madoff can win today's 135th Run for the Guns 'N' Roses to redeem all those missing $$$ billions lost in the eponymous Ponzi scamster's Mossad pension fun...
Churchill Downs - (Thoroughbred Ass Mess): Dubai's top paranoid egomaniac Shaikh Mohammed McTomb-Raider is on a roll having convinced himself that the splayed entrails on the Gogolphin Stables' gelding room floor spell a massive victory for one of hi...
Larry Jones, trainer for Kentucky Derby runner up Eight Bells who tragically snapped both front ankles after her remarkable Churchill Downs dash, categorically denied steroid use by the fallen filly.
One of the grandest social events surrounding sport, southern gentility and pie-eyed patrons adrift in a sea of mint julep has taken a surprising turn for the pragmatic.
Big 'Gordon' Brown today won the Kentucky with a blistering display of moving quickly round a bit of grass.
Hokkaido, Japan - (Horse-bollox Mess): Fabled 2002 Kentucky Derby winner Whore Emblem has gone lame in the matrimonial stakes at his Shadai Stallion Station Japanese stud farm home.
Louisville, Kentucky - (Thoroughbred Mess): Unbeaten 3/1 Kentucky derby favorite Big Brown is the bees' knees' to trainer Rick Dutrow who has dismissed kiss-of-death fears for the colt's outside draw of stall number 20 as nothing more tha...
Louisville, Kentucky - (Thoroughbred Mess): A couple of former Off-the-Wall-Street investment bankers-turned racing fanatics are chuffed to bits this weekend.