Matt Stahl

1 week ago | newsandtribune.com | Matt Stahl

Junior Alvarado was heartbroken laying in a hospital bed in March. The jockey had suffered a hairline fracture in his right shoulder, after the horse he was riding suffered a fatal heart attack during a race at Gulfstream Park and went down. With just days before the Florida Derby, Alvarado had been all set to ride Sovereignty, the race favorite, who he had ridden to victory in the Fountain of Youth. Now he was out for three weeks, and trainer Bill Mott would have to look elsewhere. kAmq2D65 @?

1 week ago | al.com | Matt Stahl

Alabama athletics brought in the fourth-most revenue among the 15 public SEC schools in Fiscal Year 2024, the league’s NCAA financial reports, obtained by AL.com via multiple open records requests, revealed. The Crimson Tide secured $234.8 million across all sports in FY 2024, which ran from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. That fell below Texas, which led the league with $331.9 million revenue.

1 week ago | al.com | Matt Stahl

The state of Alabama will be well represented in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. In addition to Publisher, who is owned by Gus King of Guntersville, in conjunction with the estate of late Kentucky governor Brereton Jones, the Yellowhammer State can fully claim Coal Battle, owned by Thomasville grocery store owner Robbie Norman. Coal Battle, trained by Lonnie Briley, is a huge longshot on the morning line at 30-1 odds. However, in a race that Rich Strike won at 80-1 in 2022, nobody can be counted out.

1 week ago | newsandtribune.com | Matt Stahl

LOUISVILLE — Brad Cox had simple instructions for Luis Saez before the jockey boarded Good Cheer in Friday's Kentucky Oaks. He knew the race had early speed, so saving ground after the start would be important, but the filly was calm and so was Cox. kAm“p >:=6 2?5 2? 6:89E9 :D 96C 7C:6?5[” E96 {@F:DG:==6\3@C? EC2:?6C D2:5] “xE’D 2 =@?8 H2J 2C@F?5 E96C6[ D@ WJ@FX 86E 2 8@@5 A@D:E:@?[ 3FE 36 A2E:6?E]”k^Am kAmr@I H2D 2D 4@?7:56?E 2D 96’5 6G6C 366? 6?E6C:?8 E96 ~2<D] xE H2D 2== ;FDE:7:65 :?

1 week ago | duncanbanner.com | Matt Stahl

On Feb. 22, 2022, Barn 33 at Churchill Downs was abandoned. The place Bob Baffert once housed his Kentucky-based horses was home to a yellow Volvo scoop full of gravel, and the only sign of the trainer was a bumper sticker overlooking the shedrow, bearing the message “I (heart) Roadster.”The signs proclaiming the names of Baffert’s various winners were all gone.