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Curlin Has Final Work For Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park September 27 Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin had a "perfect" workout Monday morning in his final move before attempting to become the first American race horse to break the $10 million mark in Saturday's 90th ru...

Kentucky Derby Creates New Qualifying Race, Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes Churchill Downs has partnered with Kempton Park Racecourse in England to create the $150,000 Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile race over Kempton’s synthetic surface that will guarant...

Jockey Club calls for Kentucky Derby field study LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)–A Jockey Club panel will study whether the number of horses allowed into the Kentucky Derby poses a safety risk. The annual Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs regularly dr...

Horse Trainer Larry Jones Claims Eight Belles Wasn?t On Drugs Larry Jones, the trainer for the fallen filly Eight Belles, on Tuesday ordered drug testing as part of a necropsy in order to prove that his horse was not on performance-enhancing drugs. Horse traine...

Connections of Filly Eight Belles Saddened by Her Loss Big Brown, who is headed for the 2008 Preakness Stakes, made Kentucky Derby history as he became the first horse since the filly Regret in 1915 to win off just 3 career starts and the second to win fr...

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  An event since 1875, and the first jewel in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred
  horseracing, the Run for the Roses is held annually in the first Saturday of ...
  
  
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  The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three year-old thoroughbred
  horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, ...