Tim Layden

1 week ago | nbcsports.com | Tim Layden

LOUISVILLE – Here then is what thoroughbred horse racing does best, what it does in such a way that it is possible – if only for a few minutes, or an hour or a day, or the two weeks that separate one Kentucky Derby from one Preakness – to look away briefly from the many problems that ever more frequently imperil the sport’s relevance, or on the darkest of days, its existence. Here then is what it does: It shrinks time and spits it out beneath two spires.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Tim Layden

By At 8:26 on the morning of Wednesday, January 8, a silver 53-foot, 18-wheeled horse transport van rolled up alongside Barn 59 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, seven miles due west of Pasadena and about 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. Workers efficiently loaded 15 horses in the care of thoroughbred trainer Michael McCarthy up a short ramp and into small travel stalls on the van. The process took just 25 minutes.

1 week ago | nbcsports.com | Tim Layden

At 8:26 on the morning of Wednesday, January 8, a silver 53-foot, 18-wheeled horse transport van rolled up alongside Barn 59 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, seven miles due west of Pasadena and about 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. Workers efficiently loaded 15 horses in the care of thoroughbred trainer Michael McCarthy up a short ramp and into small travel stalls on the van. The process took just 25 minutes.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Tim Layden

At 8:26 on the morning of Wednesday, January 8, a silver 53-foot, 18-wheeled horse transport van rolled up alongside Barn 59 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, seven miles due west of Pasadena and about 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. Workers efficiently loaded 15 horses in the care of thoroughbred trainer Michael McCarthy up a short ramp and into small travel stalls on the van. The process took just 25 minutes.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Randy Moss |Tim Layden

If records are made to be broken, then Secretariat is a spectacular exception to the rule. It has been 52 years since the 1973 Kentucky Derby winner accomplished record times in all three Triple Crown races, records that remain standing to this day. The son of Bold Ruler covered the Kentucky Derby's mile-and-a-quarter in 1:59.40. He won the Preakness, run at a mile-and-a-sixteenth, in an official time of 1:53.