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We the People is the favorite and, if the track is wet, could run away with the victory.

Hillsboro celebrated its second Pride festival on Saturday, featuring scenes from a play canceled by the school district last year.

Beyond the Wire, a Maryland-based Thoroughbred aftercare program that recently celebrated retiring its 500th horse, has been selected to receive the 2022 Special Award of Merit.

To some, Lexington businessman W.T. Young is known as the namesake of the University of Kentucky’s iconic library building, to others he’s the entrepreneur who built a peanut butter brand and sold it to P & G, and in the world of thoroughbred racing he’s the man who molded Overbrook Horse Farm into a powerhouse breeding facility. In fact, in 1996, Grindstone, a three-year old colt owned by Young, won the Kentucky Derby, beating out Cavonnier by a nose at the wire. In this Derby week edition of WUKY’s award winning history series Saving Stories, Nunn Center for Oral History director...

Media coverage of horse racing reaches its peak this week, leading up to the 148th Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve Saturday, May 7. The race drew earlier than usual, on Monday, May 2, and the 20-horse field (with two also-eligibles) is set.