Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from Lexington.

BLACK JOCKEYS WON 12 OF THE FIRST ... Kentucky Derby?The answer is yes. Oliver Lewis won Derby in 1875.At that time, Black horsemen dominated the sport."Jimmy Wakefield won. He was the last one to ...

The third, fourth and fifth place winners received $500,000, $250,000 and $150,000, respectively. The Kentucky Derby has been held every year since 1875 and has been staged on the first Saturday ...

We're inside the 13-week mark to the GI Kentucky Derby with no seismic changes to the running order at this early stage of the season. The rankings are fairly evenly distributed among contenders based ...

The Los Angeles Kings’ home game against Calgary on Wednesday was the first major sporting ... has been affected. Jockey Mario Gutierrez, a two-time Kentucky Derby winner, lost his home in ...

It’s been 20 years now since I first started covering the Kentucky Derby as a journalist, and back then the Infield was a very different place. On June 3, Hernandez’s Oaks day jockey pants will go to ...