A year after horse’s Kentucky Derby win, Barbaro’s spirit thrives. ELKTON, Md. -- May 3, 2007— -- There's a new horse in Barbaro's stall. He arrived a day ago, and a plaid Baker blanket deflects ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A hero and his unbeaten horse won the Kentucky Derby. A hard-charging Barbaro galloped into the lead at the top of the stretch and won by a stunning 6 1-2 lengths Saturday, giving ...

Imagine a Miss Manners-type column devoted entirely to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, whose injuries and subsequent surgeries and medical setbacks have jockeyed for prominent play on news pages and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The unbeaten horse stumbled out of the gate. The reluctant hero kept his cool. “Good horses make good riders and good horses make good trainers,” Michael Matz said. They also make ...

The sole visual evidence at the New Bolton Center that the large animal hospital was ever Barbaro’s intensive care home for eight months is a portrait of the bay colt blazing toward the finish line in ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There will be a $1 million bonus at the Kentucky Derby if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths - the margin of Barbaro's victory ...

No evidence exists that Barbaro had underlying bone damage. In fact, Matz, his trainer, was criticized before the Kentucky Derby for not running him enough to have him in top form. That complaint ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Early Saturday morning, about 10 hours before he would win the first Kentucky Derby he entered, racehorse trainer Michael Matz summed up his life path to a group of tourists ...

Jan. 29, 2007— -- At Churchill Downs they post the name of every Kentucky Derby winner on the white walls of the place, literally encircling the paddock area in 132 years of rich racing history.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A hero and his unbeaten horse won the Kentucky Derby. A hard-charging Barbaro galloped into the lead at the top of the stretch and won by a stunning 6 1-2 lengths Saturday, giving ...