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From the time she was preschooler, Jena Antonucci has been around horses and worked more than her share of jobs.Antonucci started riding show horses as 3-year-old…

BETH HARRIS Associated Press Forte is finally getting a crack at running in a Triple Crown race. The colt, who was scratched the day of the…

STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press BALTIMORE — Preakness favorite Mage took to the track Tuesday for his most significant workout since winning the Kentucky…

GARY B. GRAVES Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A raging thunderstorm that washed out activities Sunday morning at Churchill Downs symbolized the dark…

BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two more horses died in the hours before 15-1 shot Mage won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, capping a…

GARY B. GRAVES Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two long shots winning the Kentucky Derby over the past four years might be coincidental, but they…

BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The cast of characters for the 149th Kentucky Derby was rewritten in the days before the race. What…

BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Horse racing's new antidoping and medication control program has stumbled out of the starting gate,…

Gary B. Graves Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Todd Pletcher-trained colt Forte and Brad Cox's filly Wet Paint are the morning line favorites…

BETH HARRIS Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — There was chaos on the Kentucky Derby trail Saturday, with bumping down the stretch and close finishes…