Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby. For more than a century, those seven words largely remained as the only fact known about the jockey who rode Aristides to victory in 1875. Now the rider — a ...

Benvenuto Cellini won the $5 million Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland on Saturday, giving Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien a 24th Breeders' Cup victory.Baffert also nabbed a victory on Friday, in the ...

Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. On June 24, the Oliver Lewis Foundation and Churchill Downs unveiled a statue of Lewis, donated to the racetrack by his descendants. A journey that ...

Oliver Lewis statue unveiled at Churchill Downs. See its first appearance Oliver Lewis, the Black jockey who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, was commemorated with a statue on June 24 at ...

The Keeneland-loving colt just nosed out hard-trying Owen Almighty to give Prat his third Breeders' Cup win of 2026 Benvenuto Cellini won the $5 million Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland on Saturday, ...