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Over the past five years, 3,035 thoroughbreds, standardbreds and quarter horses have died at racing facilities, but not all of them on the racetrack or in racing-related accidents.

Eight Belles will be interred at the Kentucky Derby Museum, near the grave sites of four Kentucky Derby winners.

The trainer Larry Jones and the jockey Gabriel Saez finally had something to celebrate when Buy the Barrel won the $150,000 Allaire Dupont Distaff Stakes on Saturday.

There were no stumbles, no injuries, no after-race tragedies. This was a great day — a much-needed great day — for horse racing.

A steroid test for the filly Eight Belles has come back negative.

The filly who broke down after the Kentucky Derby sustained compound fractures of her front legs at the fetlock joints, a report released Thursday concluded.

An insular industry built on horses and gambling is out of step, out of touch and out of sync with contemporary American culture.

There was an outpouring of reactions to The Times’s coverage of the May 3 Kentucky Derby, in which Eight Belles broke her front ankles and was put down on the track.

The general public cares far less about the economics and far more about Eight Belles. Her public death should resonate in a way that forces reform.

In the aftermath of the Kentucky Derby, here is my policy for all to follow: no more politicians should ever take part in a championship ceremony.