Woodford Reserve releases 2023 Kentucky Derby bottle celebrating 50th anniversary of Secretariat.

Just under two months ago, the 2022 intake of Godolphin Flying Start trainees touched down at Bluegrass Airport, ready to embrace my old Kentucky home. We could not have been treated to a warmer welcome.

Multiple grade 1 winner and 2021 champion turf female Loves Only You gave birth to her first foal in Japan, owner DMM Dream Club announced Feb. 27 on Twitter.

The new book Secretariat’s Legacy, by award-winning journalist and photographer Patricia McQueen, explores the great horse’s accomplishments as a sire.

T.I.P. announces its 13 ambassadors for the T.I.P. youth ambassador program.

Averett Farm’s Whence, a multiple-winning sprinter by Scat Daddy, sired his first winner Feb. 28 when his 3-year-old son All of Us won a five-furlong maiden claimer at Delta Downs by three-quarters of a length in his second start.

Kentucky equestrian artist Jaime Corum talks about painting the official Woodford Reserve 149th Kentucky Derby Bottle, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown win.

Any honest horseman knows raw talent and physical ability can only take a horse so far. It takes being in the right hands for a promising Thoroughbred to develop into a successful racehorse.

Bob Baffert goes for his sixth Big ‘Cap with Defunded and Hopper, while Phil D’Amato, trainer of Newgrange, looks for his first victory in the race.

The Rebel Stakes (G2) was viewed as a learning opportunity for Reincarnate. Little did the connections of the graded stakes-winning 3-year-old know that their colt would receive a Ph. D. in adversity during the Kentucky Derby (G1) prep at Oaklawn.