Riders choose to circle either the right or left barrel first, race to the opposite barrel and complete the course after circling the third barrel and racing down the center of the three barrels to stop the timer. Horse and rider must move quietly into a herd of cattle, cut one cow from the herd, drive it to the center of the arena and "hold" it away from the herd. The horse should be willing to be guided with little or no resistance. Faults are assessed when a horse refuses to jump,...

No horse breaking from the auxiliary starting gate, used for post positions 15 and beyond, had won the Derby. For every horse, someone will dig up some precedent for the horse to lose. Curlin, the morning-line favorite, can't win because he didn't race as a 2-year-old and is making only his fourth start. Gato Del Sol, a colt co-owned and co-bred by Arthur Hancock, was breaking from the 18th position in a field of 19 horses. Today's Derby, like most, is breeding historical perspective as...

Sunday, May 06, 2007 BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN Star-Ledger Staff Everything anyone wants to know about horse racing in New Jersey can be found in a stall in Cream Ridge in Monmouth County, where a legendary colt named Windsong's Legacy can't get the mares the way he used to. With no slots to lure fans, up purses, don't bet on horse racing in Jersey. Sunday, May 06, 2007 BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN Star-Ledger Staff Everything anyone wants to know about horse racing in New Jersey can be found in a...

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Borel - riding the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, which is something that might lead to impatience - held the horse back when he felt the pace was too quick. On the back side, however, along the barn rows where the horses are stabled and groomed, where the work begins early and never ends, there is a different side to the game. Calvin not only rides on the Louisiana, Kentucky and Arkansas circuits, but he works in the mornings exercising horses for his older brother, Cecil, a trainer who...

The rail birds will watch the post parade and know which Kentucky Derby hopefuls look ready, frisky and sufficiently lathered up. There has been much discussion in recent years of how thoroughbred racing has steadily been losing its appeal. The hardcore thoroughbred racing players will chew on the grist while the rest of the world basks in nostalgia. Ownership of the entries is split almost right down the middle between the old-school, family farms and a new generation of horse players....

Duke came here over a year ago and suffered different abuses by his owner, who among other things, rammed a jeep into the quarter horse. Together they've rescued dozens of horses. The non-profit organization works with animal abuse and law enforcement agencies. In the meantime, the group hopes to give the horses they do have a better life. We just take time and show them kindness and love, a lot of patience. As a result Duke suffers from permanent shoulder injury. Horses basked in the...

When the phrase, They re off, echoes throughout Churchill Downs today, denoting the start of the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, the adrenaline of 72-year-old Boaz resident Jack Yother will increase dramatically as he watches the race at his home. When the phrase, They re off, echoes throughout Churchill Downs today, denoting the start of the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, the adrenaline of 72-year-old Boaz resident Jack Yother will increase...

And while it was perhaps not at its gourmet best (served in huge boiled chunks in a lukewarm greasy stew with a sheep's head perched on top) the thought of what I was eating - and I'm not talking about the sheep's head - was a thousand times worse than the nasty taste. And while it was perhaps not at its gourmet best (served in huge boiled chunks in a lukewarm greasy stew with a sheep's head perched on top) the thought of what I was eating - and I'm not talking about the sheep's head - was...