Derby

Meet the Kentucky Derby horses running in the 2026 race

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The Kentucky Derby will see a full field of 20 horses Saturday in the first leg of the 2026 competition for horse racing’s Triple Crown. The Run for the Roses in Louisville, Kentucky, is the opening race for the Triple Crown, the series for 3-year-olds that’s traditionally followed by the Preakness Stakes in Maryland and … Read more

The Kentucky Derby is the most consistent — and unpredictable — event in sports

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The first Kentucky Derby I covered was in 2002 for Sports Illustrated, replacing the great Bill Nack, the type of writer you never want to follow onto a beat. However, there was no line outside the editor’s office, and I had been writing about racing on and off since the late 1970s because my early … Read more