According to the Louisville Courier Journal, every horse running in the 151st Kentucky Derby Saturday is a descendent of Secretariat after a search of pedigrees. The Courier-Journal mentioned that ...

Journalism is the favorite to win the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. But how did the horse get its name?

Racehorses stir something deep in us. Whether you are watching or wagering, this 151st running of the Kentucky Derby is a moment to cherish the most indispensable animal in human civilization: the ...

Records are routinely broken in other sports, but Secretariat’s record-breaking times in the 1973 Triple Crown have never ...

The larger-than-life Bob Baffert is returning to the Kentucky Derby. The identity crisis he represents in racing never left. ...

You get a lot of “War-Something” names in Kentucky Derby history. We had War Cloud in 1918 and War Emblem in 2002, for ...

Over countless generations, Icelandic horses have developed distinct traits such as a long mane and a unique gait.

At the Horse Play Collective they are finding human trauma survivors are often better treated by powerful four-legged companions who can’t speak.

“Horses allowed us to circumvent our own biological limitations as a species,” said Timothy Winegard, a historian at Colorado Mesa University and author of a recent book, “The Horse.” “We combined our ...

Conservation efforts are essential to the health of our environment and planet. Officials celebrate return of rare wild horse ...

There was also the most action — if you know what I mean. Montano remembers doing his first serious Kentucky Derby ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.