A racing legend, dead at 86.

For our SE Saskatchewan friends, I’d say this is pretty cool.

A big upset in the Kentucky Derby today by a horse that drew into the race in gate 20 after a last minute scratch, under a jockey who normally rides at Beltarra Park in Ohio, for owners who picked him up in a $30,000 claimer.

It was the trainers first graded stakes win.

Rich Strike’s dam, Gold Strike was bred in Manitoba.

Post race press conference.

By Barbara D. Livingston.

In the Grade 1 Forego Stakes, at Saratoga today.

A sequence of photos taken at the Riding On Faith Rodeo, in Banderas, TX. on August 7th.

Just keep clicking the grey arrow to the right side of the page.

Everyone walked away.

“Bob Baffert does it again” — the replay of the 147th Kentucky Derby.

With a Florida bred horse that sold as a yearling for $1,000.

With your Saturday morning coffee, a livestream tour of Godolphin at Jonabell Farm, home of the Darley Stallions.

(Update: I posted the incorrect link, and now can’t find the original to correct it. My apologies!) A visit with American Pharoah, Justify, and Fusaichi Pegasus at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky. (The Kentucky Derby has been postponed to September).

Virtual Kentucky Derby; While fans may not flock to the track in Kentucky on Saturday, they will still be able to watch the race. Or rather, a virtual version of it. The racetrack will host its first-ever computer-simulated Kentucky Derby this weekend, dubbed “The Kentucky Derby: Triple Crown Showdown” A live stream will be available on NBC Sports website.

The Replay here.

For live racing, the Arkansas Derby (both divisions) are on at Oaklawn via Youtube.

March 30, 1970 — October 4, 1989