Triple Crown

It's Rachel Alexandra vs. Zenyatta in ballot box race for Horse of Year honor The much anticipated race between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta? Well, it's on, but only on paper. Horse racing's top two ladies will duke it out among voters for ...

ARCADIA, California (Reuters) - Kentucky Derby champion Mine That Bird is primed to pull off another shocker in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic, trainer Chip Woolley said Friday. Mine That Bird was an unheralded three-year-old gelding when he whipped the Derby ...

Trainer Bennie "Chip" Woolley Jr. feeds a carrott to 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mind That Bird after the Breeders' Cup draw at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Mine That Bird, winless in four races since his stunning ...

Magna judge approves sale of Lone Star Park after rescheduled auction A subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma received court approval Wednesday to buy Magna Entertainment Corp.'s Lone Star Park horse track in Texas, albeit for $20 million more than the ...

Magna says in bankruptcy court filings it won't consider bids to move Preakness In bold lettering in bankruptcy court filings, Magna Entertainment Corp. said it will not consider bids at auction that would move the Preakness Stakes horse race from Maryland, a ...

FILE - This May 5, 1973 file photo, jockey Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to victory in the 99th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. The Triple Crown winner and it's owner is the subject of a movie that has begun ...

'Secretariat' film to tell story of Triple Crown winner, woman behind his inspiring run In an era defined by a dispiriting war and a surreal Washington scandal, Secretariat gave Americans and their bruised psyche something to cheer about when the big thoroughbred ...

Summer Bird wins again, this time beating Quality Road in the Jockey Club Gold Cup Summer Bird made it a sweep of top races in New York. The chestnut colt fought off a determined Quality Road in a long battle down the ...

Let there be light! Churchill Downs to install permanent lights before 2010 spring meet Churchill Downs will install permanent lights at the home of the Kentucky Derby in time for the 2010 spring meet. Spokesman Kevin Flanery said the overwhelming success of ...

John Malkovich is to star in a drama based around the Triple Crown-winning exploits of legendary US racehorse Secretariat, it was reported on Tuesday. Malkovich, 55, whose recent films have included "Burn After Reading" and "Changeling," will play Lucien Laurin, the Canadian ...