A relative newcomer to the partnership table, Just Mango Racing is ticking off the requisite boxes -- partners, horses, trainer, advisors, camaraderie. It never hurts to have some celebrity firepower to lead your victor to the winner's circle as Jimmy...

Stable partner Gus Williams. Hotel rooms were so scarce in Indianapolis that Cerone and the Marcelles stayed about 30 miles away in West Lafayette, the home of Purdue University. Knowlton and Williams stayed in Louisville at the Galt House, the same...

Sheppard is one of the best trainers horse racing has ever known, but his name is certainly not synonymous with the Kentucky Derby. Though the Hall of Famer has had a couple of his protégé saddle Derby winners--Barclay Tagg with Funny Cide in 2003 and...

Servis current trio certainly lack Union Rags stature with 97 days until the 138th Derby on May 5 at Churchill Downs. But consider that Smarty Jones had won only a $75,000 stakes at this same stage, War Emblem (2002) was no better than fifth in his...

Animal Kingdom (2011), Big Brown (2008), Barbaro (2006), Smarty Jones (2004), War Emblem (2002), Monarchos (2001), and Fusaichi Pegasus (2000) all won going nine-furlongs. Super Saver (second by a neck in 2010), Street Sense (second by a nose in 2007),...

The brochure’s theme is “There is Only One.” It encourages visitors see the Bluegrass State’s many unique attractions, such as the Kentucky Derby, Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace and the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. Although Funny Cide was born...