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 ...

Jockey recently married trainer Patrick Biancone’s daughter, Andie; rode Biancone-trained Laigina to victory in the Lucky Lantern Stakes Watch: Dog nearly trampled by horse at Epsom A dog narrowly ...

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.

‘Nothing ever seemed to faze him’: Ken Oliver, former racing editor of the Guardian, dies aged 86 Tributes are paid to the much-loved former racing editor of the Guardian who also tipped as Larry Lynx ...

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 ...