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Drugs, Deaths and Venom: Horse Racing's Safety Issues Hover Over Kentucky Derby
Sports Illustrated· 8 hours agoRecent efforts to clean up the sport will be under heightened scrutiny at Churchill Downs.
Cobra Venom, Cocaine, and Corruption: New Documentary Reveals the Dark Side of Horse Racing
Rolling Stone via Yahoo Sports· 8 hours agoNow, racehorses are expected to perform at their peak all year long, making them vulnerable to...
Some of 2024’s best horses will miss the Kentucky Derby as Churchill’s feud with Bob Baffert lingers
Contra Costa Times· 3 days agoThis year’s historic 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville will, once...
Horse racing's household name will miss the 150th Kentucky Derby. Bob Baffert is exiled for 3rd year
Associated Press· 5 days agoThe 150th Kentucky Derby is missing horse racing’s household name: Bob Baffert. Last July, Baffert...
Who will win the Kentucky Derby? Horses, odds, expert picks and more for 2024 Triple Crown race |...
Sporting News· 3 days agoThe 2024 Kentucky Derby is Saturday, and plenty of horses will have a chance to emerge as winners...
The 7 biggest takeaways from the New York Times' unsettling documentary, "Broken Horses"
Salon.com· 4 days ago“Horses dying in clusters is not a new phenomenon,” Joe Drape, a New York Times reporter, says in...
Kentucky Derby: Everything you need to know as race celebrates its 150th anniversary
CNN Sports via Yahoo Sports· 12 hours agoThe Kentucky Derby is already dubbed the “greatest two minutes in sport” but this year’s race will...
Looking back: Mage won 2023 Kentucky Derby on day marred by death of two horses
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoMage’s jockey Javier Castellano also broke a 0-15 skid at Churchill Downs. The day was marred by the...
Kentucky Derby allure endures despite a troubled sport and Churchill Downs' iron grip
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoThe ...from what would have been Baffert’s record-setting seventh Derby win on May 1, 2021, when...
I drove to Pennsylvania to meet my Kentucky Derby idol. Then he bit me.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo Sports· 14 hours agoThe horse collapsed and died later that year after a workout in California. Baffert’s suspension was...