All 19 horses in Saturday's 151st running of the Kentucky Derby are descendants of the great Secretariat, according to a report by the Louisville Courier Journal. A search of pedigrees found that each ...

The year was 1973. The Watergate scandal began to destroy Richard Nixon, Vietnam withdrawal was on the immediate horizon and America needed a win — anywhere it could find one. America desperately ...

Jockey Ron Turcotte guides Secretariat toward the finish line to win the 1973 Kentucky Derby. Secretariat By Rich Nugent, The Courier-Journal, Louisville Courier Journal via Imagn Content Services, ...

Ron Turcotte, the jockey who rode the legendary Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973 and won more than 3,000 races over his two-decade career, died Friday morning of natural causes at his home in ...

Click below to view more coverage from the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com previewing the 151st Kentucky Derby to be held May 3, 2025, at Churchill Downs in Louisville. If records are made to ...

HANOVER, Va. (WRIC) — On Sunday, March 30, the town of Ashland in Hanover County celebrated the ultimate racing legend, Secretariat at the monument in the Reynolds Family Plaza. The celebration of the ...

The jockey who rode the legendary race horse Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, Ron Turcotte, has died at 84. Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard ...

If records are made to be broken, then Secretariat is a spectacular exception to the rule. It has been 52 years since the 1973 Kentucky Derby winner accomplished record times in all three Triple Crown ...

Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84. Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the ...