Sovereignty jockey Junior Alvarado nearly missed the Kentucky Derby with an injury. He returned just in time to win it.

The victory hands Venezuelan jockey Junior Alvarado his first career win in the Kentucky Derby. Sovereignty's trainer, Bill Mott, has won the Kentucky Derby once before.

From The Werth's fashion flop to Star Jones' style no-show, these are the famous faces who forgot the Kentucky Derby is a ...

The heart averages 10 to 12 pounds (4.5-5.4 kg), or about 1% of the animal's body weight, compared with half a percent for ...

Sovereignty outdueled 3-1 favorite Journalism down the stretch to win the 151st Kentucky Derby in the slop on Saturday.

Our film correspondent revisits a flawed-but-worthy attempt to transfer to celluloid the famous tale of 1924 Churchill Downs ...

It was a sloppy track due to rainy conditions but that didn't stop Sovereignty from besting the morning-line favorite ...

Neighborhoods around Churchill Downs took advantage of the crowds and sold their yards and driveways for parking to race fans ...

We had all been here before. Six years ago, on a Churchill Downs racing surface the consistency of peanut butter and under skies the color of ...

(Reuters) -Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, in a thrilling fight to the ...

The Kentucky Derby is a strange place. Churchill Downs is a strange place. Louisville is a strange place. So here’s what I saw, thought, heard and smelled during a marathon day capped off by the most ...