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Article via SB Nation, Kurt Mensching Finnegans Wake won by a nose -- literally -- in the final race of the the Kentucky Derbyundercard. Jockey Victor Espinoza, who also rides Derby favorite American Pharoah, brought his horse back from 13 lengths to win the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic. Even 200...

Article via The Courier-Journal, Jonathan Lintner In the best stretch of his career -- and with a Grade I victory in hand -- the winner of Churchill Downs' biggest turf race will likely be among the challengers should 2014 Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome return to the United States on...

Article via The Des Moines Register, John Naughton. Photo Jamie Rhodes, USA TODAY Sports Keen Ice finished seventh in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, but the horse owned by Iowans will continue his Triple Crown career at Belmont Park. Donegal Racing president Jerry Crawford told The Des Moines Register that he...

Article via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Steve Hummer Keith Mason went to his first Kentucky Derby in 1991, back when he was Gov. Zell Miller’s chief of staff, if only to look at the big hats and the gleaming horses and to mingle with some Bluegrass State pols. It was his...

See full article at The Courier-Journal JONATHAN KINCHEN, made handicapping contest history back in January when he became the first player to get his two entries at the National Handicapping Championship into the Final Table, netting him $84,000.As the year has gone on, he's showed that this was no fluke...

Article via The Gazette. By Brandi Bachman, KCRG-TV9. Photo by Frances Karon. LOUISVILLE — When horses take part in the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby, one with connections to Iowa will try to beat the odds for a win. Keen Ice will break from the 14 post as a 50...

Article via The Des Moines Register, John Naughton Keen Ice, the horse owned by an Iowa-based partnership, earned the No. 14 position in Saturday's Kentucky Derby. The draw for the starting spots on Wednesday placed the horse in the outside stall of the main gate on the track — giving...

Article via ABC News, David Pitt A group of 22 Iowa investors that has had two third-place Kentucky Derby finishers and has a horse in the field for this weekend's race said Thursday its success can be attributed to buying only horses that fit a genetic formula developed by the group's president. Donegal Racing...

Donegal Racing, which puts together racing partnerships, heads to Louisville with a three-pronged attack on trio of grade I races, including the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, May 1-2 at Churchill Downs. The Iowa-based partnership has Keen Ice, trained by Dale Romans, for the May 2 Kentucky Derby; Puca, trained by Bill...

KEEN ICE is now IN the Kentucky Derby. Donegal Racing has accomplished the extraordinary feat of qualifying a horse in each of the three major races Derby weekend: PUCA in the Kentucky Oaks, FINNEGAN'S WAKE in the Woodford Reserve and KEEN ICE in the Kentucky Derby. A huge congratulations to all of...