FILE - In this May 4, 2002, file photo, jockey Victor Espinoza celebrates after riding War Emblem to victory in the 128th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. War Emblem, ...

Thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert, whose horses won the Kentucky Derby in 1997 and ’98, didn’t have a steed good enough to enter this year’s Run for the Roses. Neither did Russell Reineman, a Chicago ...

The necropsy report of War Emblem, who was found deceased at Old Friends March 11, determined that the 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner died from a ruptured small intestine.

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Ahmed bin Salman was racing's prince charming -- whether he was kissing the nose of his horse in the winner's circle, joking with jockeys about how famous he'd make them, or ...

During a magnificent spring campaign in 2002, War Emblem, a notoriously headstrong near-black colt, might have been humming "I Did It My Way" to himself in his barn in between consecutive wins in the ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - War Emblem is versatile after all, and his victory in the Preakness Stakes has trainer Bob Baffert back in the Triple Crown chase. The ornery Kentucky Derby winner didn't lead all the ...

War Emblem , the winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1), has died at age 21, Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center announced March 11. War Emblem, who had been pensioned ...

GEORGETOWN, Ky.GEORGETOWN, Ky. — War Emblem, the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, died Wednesday at age 21. He had been at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center since 2015 after ...