The winners of the G2 Royal Lodge at Newmarket and the G2 Beresford at the Curragh will receive 10 Kentucky Derby points Ralph Cooper Becomes First Black Honoree on Houston Baseball Media Wall of ...

Florida great Louis Oliver to serve as Mr. Two Bits for Ole Miss game Florida football legend Louis Oliver will serve in the celebrity Mr. Two Bits role against Ole Miss in the Swamp in Week 4.

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, the Black jockey who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, was commemorated with a statue on June 24 at Churchill Downs.

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 ...

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 ...