Texas A&M will honor legendary coach R. C. Slocum with a ten foot statue at Kyle Field, celebrating his decades of impact on Aggie football. Cardinals History By The Numbers No one on the Louisville ...

A surprise result in one of Britain’s most prestigious horse races Wednesday saw the world’s top-ranked thoroughbred Ombudsman finish fourth behind 10-1 winner Item. Item is a son of unbeaten great ...

A journey that began more than 150 years ago finally came to its resting place at Churchill Downs. For generations, history told the story of the first Kentucky Derby and the horse that won it all, ...

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 statue honoring jockey Oliver Lewis, the Black man who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 aboard Aristides, was unveiled at Churchill Downs on Wednesday, June 24. Lewis, born a slave in Woodford ...