Long before Shannon Arvin made headlines as the first female president and CEO of Keeneland and Jessica Paquette was named the first female full-time announcer at a major [...]

March, 2022 Scholarship recipient Brianne O’Donoghue, a graduate of Wellesley College, shares her latest education and career pursuits. [...]

February, 2021 By Jay Privman Andy Rivera is on-track to graduate from medical school at the University of Tulane in 2023, something the son of an assistant trainer [...]

VICTOR ESPINOZA By Jay Hovdey Victor Espinoza, a three-time winner of the Kentucky Derby and member of the Thoroughbred racing Hall of Fame, is being saluted by the [...]

HOLLENDORFER & SHERMAN By Jay Hovdey Be wary of labels, especially in horseracing. They bite. In the spring of 1955, Swaps was called that “West Coast colt trained [...]

BOB BAFFERT By Jay Hovdey Bob Baffert was once at Lone Star Park in Texas to run some 3-year-old Thoroughbred in a race of decent value. He does [...]

Mike Smith and Gary Stevens can tell you the exact day and date they first met – it was April 20, 1985 – for reasons that had little [...]

When he was a teenager, growing up near the California town of Beaumont, Richard Mandella would start each day before dawn, break yearlings at Three Rings Ranch, then [...]