America’s Best Racing (ABR), horse racing’s national fan-development platform and marketing initiative funded by The Jockey Club, and the Hennegan Brothers, three-time Eclipse Award-winning filmmakers, today announced a partnership to launch “UNBRIDLED,” the industry’s first made-for-social vertical docuseries. “UNBRIDLED” will focus on storytelling of racing’s major events, starting with the lead-up to the 2026 Kentucky Derby.
Tag: Pop Culture
Seventeen Words That Mean Something Different to Kentucky Derby Fans
Horse racing is a sport full of jargon: for hardcore fans of the game, the sentence, “He worked a bullet over three panels in 35 and change” makes absolute and perfect sense. (The translation is: this horse was the fastest workout of the morning going three-eighths of a mile, traveling the distance in just over 35 seconds.)
Oscar-Worthy Achievements in Horse Movies
The 98th Academy Awards arrives Sunday, March 15 beginning at 7 p.m. ET, and horse racing aficionados can revel in the implicit recognition the sport of kings annually receives when journalists and film buffs adopt racing’s handicapping lingo to forecast the night’s winners.
Sharing Their Stories: Ten Books That Honor Great African Americans in Horse Racing
The sport of horse racing might have started with the simple question of whose horse is fastest, but centuries of such challenges have morphed that humble query into a full-fledged industry, replete with stories of great horses and the humans behind them. Racing reflects the world it inhabits, a mirror for the societal and economic conflicts playing out in the background.
