Ben A. Jones

Come Kentucky Derby 2017, Doug O’Neill hopes to repeat last year’s victory with Reddam Racing’s Irap, who broke his maiden last out in the Grade 2 Blu...

There is one name that epitomizes all of Kentucky horse racing - excellence on the track, in the breeding shed, and on the landscape - Calumet Farm.Th...

Most trainers will tell you the Kentucky Derby is the one race they dream of winning. While it is an accomplishment to pull the feat off once, so...

Since the beginning of the New Year some three short weeks ago, I have encountered on several occasions the same four numbers in the following sequenc...

 Hunkering down for the winter, I’ve been drifting off musically with Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey rocking my Bose speakers that I i...

   I'm sure all you fellow horse lovers saw the odd event occurring at Pimlico a couple days ago. These beautiful creatures have the sillies...

Ben A. Jones, who trained a record six Kentucky Derby winners, died. ~1861 English-bred Saxon became the first foreign bred horse to win the Belm...

Last week, I was chatting with a friend of mine, James "Bundy" Jenkins who is a local historian and retired school teacher. We normally shoot the bree...

The date was September 19, 1942. The United States was embroiled in the Second World War and in the world of thoroughbred horse racing; the race of th...

The year was 1948, and there was a hint of dread in Eddie Arcaro's mind; nagging doubt, stirred by the memory of Devil Diver six years before.