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Inaugural Fan Choice Awards: The Winners

From the Kentucky Derby to the Breeders' Cup, 2019 has flown by faster than Vino Rosso in the Longines Classic! We've watched longshots become Derby champions and small bets pay big money; and for the first time ever, we celebrated the voice of the people with the 2019 America's Best Racing Fan Choice Awards. So, who came out on top? Here are the 2019 winners as chosen by you, the fans ...

Watch the Inaugural America's Best Racing Fan Choice Awards

Watch the inaugural America's Best Racing Fan Choice Awards, including the winner of the VIP trip to the 2020 Breeders' Cup World Championships with a chance to place a $10,000 win bet on the Classic thanks to Keeneland Select, at 8 p.m. ET on Dec. 19.

A Visit to Central Kentucky in ‘The Crown’: Fiction Meets Reality

In the fifth episode of season three of Netflix’s “The Crown,” Queen Elizabeth II travels to Kentucky and spends a month in the commonwealth looking for horses to breed with her mares, some of whom were stabled in Central Kentucky. In the episode, she spends her time in Kentucky lamenting “the unlived life” and the restrictions that accompany her station as a monarch.

Twenty More Quotes to Celebrate National Day of the Horse

Dec. 13 is the National Day of the Horse, and we’re celebrating the day with some of our favorite quotes about the animals that bring us so much joy. For more equine wisdom, check out last year's list.

“I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.” — Clare Balding

"A Bedford Cottage Trial" is among the pieces featured in Sunday's Sporting Art Auction at Keeneland.

Sporting Art Auction Highlights History, Tranquility, and Power of the Horse

My 88-year-old dad has the most amazing picks every day when we watch horse racing. Time and time again, I watch his selections hit the board. When the Sporting Art Auction catalog arrived from Cross Gate Gallery, I sat him down with a stack of post it notes and asked him for his “paddock picks.” For over an hour, his palsied hands turned each page slowly as he leaned forward and studied the magnificent selection of paintings, etchings, watercolors and sculptures. Dad is not from the generation that would squander an entire post it note to mark a page in a book.

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