Churchill Downs

1. CURLIN The decade's only two-time Horse of the Year was a tough-as-nails gamer who, according to trainer Steve Asmussen, "got better the more he got stretched out [pushed hard] in a race." Curlin came back on...

ELMONT, N.Y. -- Here are my five quick thoughts following a stirring, if anticlimactic, Belmont Stakes.

They think they know how to win the Kentucky Derby -- the sheikhs and financiers, the heirs and entrepreneurs. They think they know the path to the place where the roses lie. And then last Saturday, on a gray, damp...

Unlikely Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is on the cover of SI this week. He's the first horse on the cover since Smarty Jones after winning the Derby in '04. (Although to be fair, this week's photo has to be...

Here are my five quick thoughts from an improbable, electrifying Kentucky Derby.