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Kentucky Racetracks 'In Serious Trouble' After ICE Raid Rocks Horse Industry: 'Scary Times'

Kentucky horse trainers are sounding the alarm over potential ICE raids, warning that immigration crackdowns could upend an industry built on migrant labor.

Latin Times

2025 Kentucky Derby Tips & Churchill Downs Best Bets

Racing correspondent Sam Turner casts his eye over the runners and riders for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby and finds two bets on an enthralling card

The Independent UK

Why the Kentucky Derby Has Never Felt Weirder

Since the death of the race ambassador in 2018, the run for the roses has seen surreal, chaotic results.

Sports Illustrated

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Churchill Downs Stock: Could Tariff Fears Dampen Derby Gains?

Churchill Downs stock sold off more than 16% after announcing it was pausing a renovation project due to tariff uncertainty, but the stock could be worth a bet

MarketBeat

3 Stocks Returning Billions to Shareholders via Buybacks

Check out these three big-name stocks that just announced sizable increases to their share repurchase capacity in Q1 2025.

MarketBeat

How computer-assisted wagering became horse racing’s insider trading

Cash-strapped tracks are selling out everyday bettors to whales who use algorithms to wager huge sums at friendlier odds. It’s a rigged system designed for the rich to get richer

The Guardian - US

Churchill Downs lifts suspension of trainer Bob Baffert following Medina Spirit's failed drug test

Churchill Downs has rescinded its extended suspension of Bob Baffert, allowing the Hall of Fame trainer to resume racing his horses at the historic track and partner facilities after more than three years of banishment for a failed postrace drug test of 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit

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Kentucky Derby 150 Red Carpet: Garden of Time Florals Were the Fashion Winner

The Kentucky Derby hit the track and red carpet to celebrate 150 years of the historic race event with the stars and sport, business, and political making a case for dramatic florals.

Fashion Times

Kentucky Derby Dream: Larry Demeritte Soaking Up Late-Career Climax in Unlikeliest of Ways

Demeritte is a long shot in the horse race, training West Saratoga with 50–1 odds, and in life, a guy who shouldn’t be at Churchill Downs on Saturday—literally and figuratively.

Sports Illustrated

Churchill Downs Elevates Gaming Experience for Horse Racing Fans

Visionary’s PacketAV Matrix enhances HDMI over IP distribution at latest facility.

AVNetwork

Churchill Downs to improve track maintenance, veterinary resources for fall meet after horse deaths

Churchill Downs will implement safety measures for its September meet including new track surface maintenance equipment and additional monitoring and equine care following 12 horse deaths before and after the Kentucky Derby that spurred suspension of its spring meet

The Independent UK

John Cherwa: Why Churchill Downs extended the ban on trainer Bob Baffert

Imagine having your driver’s license suspended, serving that suspension, and then being told the suspension has been extended because you haven’t admitted that you committed those driving offenses you were charged with two years ago.

Los Angeles Times

John Clay: In its now personal feud with Bob Baffert, Churchill Downs steps over the line

If Bob Baffert would just say he’s sorry.

Tribune News Service

No Kentucky Derby 150 for Bob Baffert. Churchill Downs extends trainer’s suspension.

Churchill Downs Inc. announced Monday that it is extending its track suspension of trainer Bob Baffert through the calendar year 2024.

Tribune News Service

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John Clay: Gaming halls with HHR machines are booming in Kentucky. Now comes sports gambling.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — It’s a good crowd for a weeknight on a recent Monday evening at Red Mile. I signed up for the Red Mile rewards club, got my player’s card and with a spin of the promotion wheel landed on $100 in free bets. After spending $9 on a…

Daily Mirror

Racing suspended at home of Kentucky Derby after deaths of 12 horses

Churchill Downs, which staged the Kentucky Derby in May, has experienced an alarming spate of horses deaths since it opened in March

Sports Illustrated

Churchill Downs’ Decision to Suspend Racing Was the Only Responsible Move

The track moved its spring meet following a dozen horse deaths, showing that public scrutiny has seemingly overcome the sport’s old-school indifference.

Tribune News Service

John Clay: Like it or not, Preakness win proves Bob Baffert isn’t going away

Bob Baffert is officially back. On the track back. Triple Crown-race back. Like it or not, back. For better or worse, horse racing’s most recognizable and controversial trainer is officially back in the spotlight of the winner’s circle.

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Childs Walker: After a record-setting victory, Bob Baffert remains a messy figure atop a messy sport

Of course a Bob Baffert-trained horse won the Preakness Stakes.

Los Angeles Times

National Treasure wins Preakness Stakes in bittersweet moment for Bob Baffert

BALTIMORE — Trainer Bob Baffert often talks about the extreme highs and lows in horse racing. On Saturday, he experienced both by winning the Preakness Stakes seven races after watching one of his colts die on the track.

Daily Mirror

Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Birkhead: Who she is and how much she inherited

Anna Nicole Smith died just months after her daughter Dannielynn Birkhead was born and her son Daniel died of an accidental drug overdose, but who is Dannielynn and how much did she inherit?

The Independent UK

Early Kentucky Derby favourite horse Forte scratched from race

It was the fifth scratch this week from the race

The Independent UK

Early Kentucky Derby favorite Forte scratched from race

The early favorite for the Kentucky Derby has been scratched hours before the race

The Independent UK

Churchill Downs suspends trainer Joseph after 2 horse deaths

Churchill Downs has suspended trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. indefinitely and Lord Miles, who is trained by Joseph, has been scratched from the Kentucky Derby days after the sudden death of two of his horses at the track

Los Angeles Times

Forte’s win in Florida Derby makes him the big Kentucky Derby favorite

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — If there was any doubt who will be the favorite for the Kentucky Derby, Forte erased it with a rousing come-from-behind win Saturday in the $1 million Florida Derby.

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