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To paraphrase a wiseguy I once knew, this Saturday’s Kentucky Derby — the 150th edition of the famed horse race — is made history. From its first running in 1875 as the feature race at a just opened Churchill Downs in Louisville to its current place atop a sports and culture pinnacle, its narrative has […] The post Kentucky Derby at 150 is bucket-list Americana. But can it outrun racing’s woes? appeared first on Kentucky Lantern.

The Derby's brand has a rosy future. But there’s an elephant — American Thoroughbred racing — in the room.

Article by Mark Shrager: Read this extract from Mark Shrager’s illuminating new book examining the events leading up to Aristides’s victory in 1875 in the first ‘Run for the Roses’.

Spurred by a refreshing, renewed collaboration between the City of Norman and OU that he has not seen before during his 30 years in town, Norman Chamber of Commerce President

In her latest book, Geraldine Brooks has made not one but two young African American men the central characters.