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by Katie Ritz It’s three days before Christmas, a time when most young Americans can be found lounging on the couch binging on Netflix and cookies, but Merlin Cano is...

Five-time MLB All-Star Victor Martinez is following a dream with King Guillermo– already a graded stakes winner who, after a seven-month layoff, is set to return to Grade I company.  ...

Twenty-five years ago, Cigar put together a perfect 10-for-10 season, the centerpiece of a three-year streak of 16 straight wins. We remember it here. by Bill Finley (10-minute read) It...

In a vast cavern of a building like an aircraft-hanger just a tad more than a stone’s throw from Newport Beach is a sparkling chrome vista that would set any...

by Diana Pikulski Seven-time Saratoga leading owner Michael Dubb is the founder of The Beechwood Organization, Long Island’s largest homebuilder which he operates with his son Steven. Dubb prides himself...

by Katie Ritz  (Listen to this story as a podcast.)   After following a roundabout encircling a giant bronze statue of Secretariat, a 16.9 mile historic road called Old Frankfort...

by Sue Finley. Photos (except as indicated) by Sarah K. Andrew (Listen to this story as a podcast.) Passion is a funny thing. What is it, you wonder, about one...

By Chris McGrath (To listen to this story as a podcast, click the play button below).    Nobody, we keep telling ourselves, remembers a time quite like this. And that’s...

By Christie DeBernardis (To listen to this story as a podcast, click play button above) On my first trip to the Kentucky Equine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, better known...

By Kelsey Riley There really is something about horses; it seems to be simply impossible to fall out of love with them. (Click the arrow above to listen to this...

TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special collaboration: the Keeneland ‘Life’s...

by Kelsey Riley (6-minute read) Step onto the streets of Buenos Aires, and the city will grab hold of your senses. Buenos Aires is a multi-cultural hodgepodge; Latin charm abounds,...

by Katie Ritz (5-minute read) When Ramón Dominguez approached the starting gate for the seventh race at Aqueduct on Jan. 18, 2013, he was already off to what most consider...

TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special collaboration: the Keeneland ‘Life’s...

By Lucas Marquardt (reading time: 6 minutes) Take the man-made structures from most cities and what’s left is a meadow and, maybe, a pretty confluence of rivers. Take them from Rio...

TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special new collaboration: the Keeneland...

by Christie DeBernardis To Listen to this story as a podcast, click the play button above. If you drive down Athens-Boonesboro Road at the right time of day, you might...

TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special new collaboration: the Keeneland...

by Christie DeBernardis (6-minute read) (To listen to this story as a podcast, click the link above.) With four Eclipse Awards, three Breeders’ Cup victories, 11 Grade I wins and...

TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special new collaboration: the Keeneland...

by Bill Finley (5-minute read) Cameron Beatty was at that stage in life–young, healthy, athletic, motivated, naive–where he never even imagined the possibility that everything he had could be taken...

by Emma Berry (5-minute read) (To listen to this story as a podcast, click the arrow above.) The spotlight will be turned on the best racing that Ireland has to...

TDN is proud to partner with the Keeneland Library and the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries in a very special new collaboration: the Keeneland...

by Sue Finley Photos (unless indicated) by Paul Flanagan (Click the arrow above to play the podcast.) I have always loved old churches–the kinds you come across in rural towns...

by Amanda Duckworth (6-minute read) PODCAST: Click the play button below to listen to the author read this story as a podcast. It is easy to think of ‘The Cowboy’...

by Kelsey Riley (9-minute read) (AUDIO: Click above to listen to this story as a podcast.) There were few people more visible in the highest echelons of the sport of...

by Sue Morris Finley (7-minute read) (AUDIO: Listen to an audio file of this story.) Not unlike the rise of supertrainers in racing, the last decade has given birth to...

by Emma Berry (6-minute read) (AUDIO: Click here to listen to this story.) It has been 400 years since the first Spring Meeting was run at Newmarket, during the reign...

by Sue Morris Finley (14-minute read) (AUDIO: click to listen to this story.) Of all the terrible things that mankind has inflicted upon one another, there is none so terrible...

by Bill Finley (8-minute read) You certainly know Jim McIngvale the racehorse owner. He’s campaigned a bunch of good horses, in particular the champion Runhappy. You might know Jim McIngvale...

Story by Bill Finley. Video interviews by Patty Wolfe and Lucas Marquardt. (10-minute read) This week, Belmont Park marks the 30th anniversary of what many of us who were there...

by Christie DeBernardis (7-minute read) Since my first visit to Summer Wind Farm last year, the Georgetown nursery has become a regular stop on my frequent trips to Kentucky. The...

by Kelsey Riley (7-minute read) When it comes to producing a winner, the elements of a fine wine and a champion Thoroughbred look rather alike. Each is built on a...