His passing leaves a gap that stretches from Belmont Park to Santa Anita from Gulfstream Park to any track or sales ring in Kentucky.
Sovereignty bested Journalism on Saturday in a Kentucky Derby rematch to win the 157th Belmont Stakes, and the second hosted at Saratoga.
On Sunday, trainer Bill Mott talked like a man who was not determined to run Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby winner, in the Preakness Stakes.
When a sporting event gets to be 151 years old, it can accumulate some trivia.
The Belmont Stakes is taking place at venerable Saratoga Race Course for the first time in the venue's vaunted 161-year history.
Asking a 3-year-old horse to race 1-3/16th miles two weeks after running the most demanding mile-and-a-quarter of his life has always been a difficult ask for McPeek.
For ex-Derby winner Silver Charm, it's a life of leisure and Old Friends at Kentucky retirement farm
The oldest living Derby winner resides at the 240-acre farm located outside Georgetown, Kentucky.
In one corner, you have Baffert, who soiled his reputation as the master of Derby preparation when Medina Spirit was taken down as the 2021 Derby winner. In the other corner, you have Churchill, which rightly rebelled because of the negative publicity the suspension brought to the track's signature event.
I settled on reasons all 20 Derby contenders can and cannot win the race over a mile-and-a-quarter late Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs.
It's a time when late nights and early mornings blend into one exhaustive and energetic race to say 'I can't wait until next year.'