In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Keeneland will open ticket sales for its 2025 Spring Meet, to be held April 4-25, on Feb. 18 at 9 a.m. ET. A variety of ...

Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown.

As the wildfires devastated parts of the San Gabriel Valley, Santa Anita Park did what locals always have counted on the 80-year-old track to do. It stepped up and fulfilled its role as a ...

WUKY's Saving Stories remembers former Keeneland president and trustee Ted Bassett who passed away last week at the age of 103. In the summer of 2019, the Nunn Center and the UK Libraries partnered ...

“The small guys and breeders.” Ben Huffman, who is both the racing secretary at Keeneland and the vice president of racing for Churchill, addressed Hiles's point by conceding that lower-level ...

I was just beginning my career in Thoroughbred racing and already knew of Ted Bassett. Over the years, I got to know Mr. Bassett well, especially when he and Bill Mooney were writing Keeneland's ...

Senator Raffy Tulfo, who presided over the hearing, asked the Philippine National Police to check on Lim's concern. "Ginagawang racetrack 'to every Sunday," Tulfo said addressing PNP Police Brigadier ...

A man was accidentally killed at a high school track and field meet in Colorado on Sunday morning when a hammer weight thrown by a competitor cleared barriers and struck him, officials confirmed.

James E. “Ted” Bassett III, who led Keeneland through historic expansion and established its position internationally as a premier race track and auction house during his 38-year tenure ...

Ted Bassett, Keeneland’s former President, died Thursday at his home aged 103. Horse Capital reporter Samantha Lederman looks back on his impact not just on the racetrack, but on the Central Kentucky ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Former president of Keeneland Racetrack, James “Ted” Bassett III died Thursday. He was 103. Bassett led Keeneland for 38 years. During that time, he oversaw a historic expansion of ...