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Chef Joshua Weissman Teams with Kentucky Derby to Spice Up At-Home Celebrations

Churchill Downs Racetrack has announced a partnership with New York Times best-selling cookbook author and content creator chef Joshua Weissman to help fans create the ultimate at-home race day celebration for the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve.

Old Hillside Bourbon, Courtney Tucker, Jesse Carpenter, Brian Burton, Emmanuel Waters, The Trifecta, Eliza Carpenter, Cheryl White, Sylvia Bishop

Honoring a Trifecta of Greats: Old Hillside Commemorates Three African-American Pioneers with New Blend

A featured ingredient of the famed mint julep, bourbon is as synonymous with Kentucky as horses. Both are key components of the Bluegrass State’s economy. Bourbon is a $9 billion industry, and the state is home to 100 distilleries owned by 84 companies producing 95% of the global bourbon supply. This golden spirit is powering an industry that employs more than 23,000 people, opening up opportunities for underrepresented populations to make their own mark on this uniquely American phenomenon.

Repole Stable, Mike Repole, St. John’s, basketball, NCAA, NIL, name, image, likeness, booster, players, program, coach, Rick Pitino, Queens, Saratoga, Goldencents, owner, Thoroughbred, athletics, college, alumnus, Big East

Mike Repole, Rick Pitino Form Winning Team at St. John’s

It was a year ago that prominent Thoroughbred owner and St. John’s University alumnus and mega booster Mike Repole can recall being at Gulfstream Park with Red Storm men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino to watch the Curlin Florida Derby.

Oscar-Worthy Achievements in Horse Movies

The 97th Academy Awards arrives Sunday, March 2 beginning at 7 p.m. ET, and horse racing aficionados can revel in the implicit recognition the sport of kings annually receives when journalists and film buffs adopt racing’s handicapping lingo to forecast the night’s winners.

The Jockey and Her Horse, Sarah Maslin Nir and Raymond White, Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey, Katherine C. Mooney, Sylvia Rideoutt Bishop Had a Way with Horses, Vicky Moon, Black History Month

Sharing Their Stories: Ten Books That Honor Great African Americans in Horse Racing

The sport of horse racing might have started with the simple question of whose horse is fastest, but centuries of such challenges have morphed that humble query into a full-fledged industry, replete with stories of great horses and the humans behind them. Racing reflects the world it inhabits, a mirror for the societal and economic conflicts playing out in the background.

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