Kentucky Derby News

The acoUstiKats, the all-male a capella group at the University of Kentucky, is competing on NBC's The Sing-Off this season, which debuts Monday.

Championship Meet will take place Dec. 7 with the Claiming Crown, a collection of eight stakes races worth a total of $1 million.

The 76-day meet will have a total of $20 million in purses and a daily average of $250,000.

Even though a large number of teams are taking the weekend off, The Line King doesn't have that luxury, he still has to performplus, we have the Breeder's Cup to enjoy something that dishes out crowns based on head-to-head competition.

It has loads of suspense which I love in books. When Laura and Tariq go to Kentucky in America, a mysterious person steals one of the best horses in Kentucky just before the Kentucky Derby .

This past Saturday Churchill Downs completed its first futures pool for the 2014 Kentucky Derby .

The movie "50 to 1" about the Kentucky Derby-winning horse from New Mexico will soon hit the big screen.

The racing season for Rick Pitino's Goldencents is over, but not forgotten. He had a very long, and very successful year out in California.

Steve Haskin, senior correspondent for The Blood-Horse , will discuss his insight and thoughts on the top horses of 2013 in a series of podcasts that begin this week and will culminate the week of the Jan. 18 Eclipse Awards.

The Ruffian Equine Medical Center in Elmont is closed. It had received a break on Hempstead Town taxes, but failed anyway.

Lawmakers don't take up horse racing bill on KSDK.com: http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/2013/12/03/illinois-horse-racing-bill/3864039/ I'll Have Another, ridden by Mario Gutierrez, edges out Bodemeister, with Mike Smith up, to win the 138th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville Kentucky, May 5, 2012.

Left to right are: Coach R. A. Mazzola, Bethany Garver, Lauren McGuire, Katelyn Peterson, Margaret Fitzgerald and Stephanie King.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Daily average handle from all sources was down more than 15 percent at the Churchill Downs fall meet that ended Saturday, according to information provided by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. , Dec. 3, 2013 -- Churchill Downs Incorporated announced that William E. Mudd , Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, along with Mike Anderson , Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, will participate in the Wells Fargo Securities 2013 Boston Gaming Conference on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 .

On Saturday, Nov. 30, Honor Code won the Grade II Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct Racecourse.

If you thought that the Horse of the Year conversation had been concluded after the Breeders' Cup the first weekend of November, don't count the ballots just yet.

The mutuel field and Remsen Stakes winner Honor Code closed as the favorites in the first Kentucky Derby Future Wager for the 140th Run for the Roses on May 3. The first of four Future Wagers opened Wednesday, Nov. 27 and closed after the Remsen on Saturday, Nov. 30. As in previous pools, there were 24 betting interests, 23 individual horses and ... (more)

COMING DISTRACTIONS . . . The movie about Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is set to open March 21 at 260 theaters around the U.S. The film is called "50 to 1," which were the odds against Mine That Bird winning the 2009 Derby.

Preston Stables' Flat Out, still going strong at the conclusion of his 7-year-old season, launched an outside rally on the turn and took over in midstretch to win the $650,000, Grade I Cigar Mile Handicap by 11 4 lengths over Private Zone on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Dec. 16, $88. Travel by motorcoach to Eastlake. Departure and return times to be announced.