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 ...

Sacramento-trained Ben Ali won the Derby in 1886 and was commemorated with a statue in 2008. The bronze was reported stolen on Wednesday.

"You Put Owensboro, Kentucky, on the Map" - Mike Helton Delivers Tribute Honoring Darrell Waltrip for Dragging NASCAR Into Modern Spotlight The man who helped NASCAR find its voice on national ...

A tribute now stands at Churchill Downs, honoring the man who rode into history in the first Kentucky Derby. More than 150 years after winning the first Kentucky Derby at 18 years old, Oliver Lewis is ...