Roy Chapman, who with his wife, Pat, raced Smarty Jones, the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, died Friday at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Doylestown, Pa. He was 79 and had suffered ...

Smarty Jones, the Pennsylvania-bred horse that captured the hearts of sports and horse fans across the world during his historic race for the Triple Crown in 2004, is the subject of a new documentary, ...

If you've had enough of presidential campaigns and elections, you might want to try your hand at predicting the winner of Thoroughbred racing's Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. The two candidates ...

LOUISVILLE, April 26 -- It is a story almost too improbable to be true, which, of course, is the perfect kind for a larger-than-life event like the Kentucky Derby. It begins with a tragedy, the ...

Smarty Jones with Stewart Elliott up wins the Kentucky Derby. Breeder/Owner Patricia Chapman of Someday Farm and her husband Roy, trainer John Servis and wife Sherry and son Tyler. Anne M. Eberhardt ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — First-time jockeys hardly ever win the Kentucky Derby. Before Saturday, only one Pennsylvania-bred had ever won the Derby. Undefeated horses have a way of stumbling in the Derby.

Five years ago Friday was when Smarty Jones, the first of the great "Philly horses," realized where he was from and did what Philly athletes always did -- choked. June 5, 2004 will forever be ...

Thoroughbred racing has a bright new star in Smarty Jones. He is the first undefeated horse to win the Kentucky Derby since Seattle Slew, and his perfect record suggests that he possesses limitless ...

Sourpusses argue that a racehorse, even one as grand as Smarty Jones, is not an athlete. They say that it (not a he or a she) does not aspire be a champion, does not consciously train to win and break ...

Did jockey Stewart Elliott move too soon? That is the question that will be asked by countless second-guessers in the immediate aftermath of the Belmont Stakes, and perhaps in the years to come, after ...

Make it two in a row for the people's choice at the Kentucky Derby. Smarty Jones splashed his way past Lion Heart in the stretch and won America's premier horse race Saturday a year after Funny Cide ...