Tag: The Sport
Ron McAnally: The Making of a Masterful Horseman
Ron McAnally remembers one element above all others from the formative years he spent at the Covington Protestant Children’s Home, an orphanage in northern Kentucky. He will never forget the view. “They tell me I used to sit at the window and stare for hours,” he said. “I wouldn’t talk to anybody.” McAnally was at the tender age of 5 when he and his four siblings were sent to the home following the death of their mother. He sought comfort wherever he could find it, even at a window.
2026 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles: Remsen Stakes Winner Paladin
Welcome to Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles, where we take a look each week at a recent winner on the Road to the Derby schedule of races that offer qualifying points for the 1 ¼-mile first leg of the Triple Crown May 2, 2026, at Churchill Downs.
Landaluce: Unforgettable Brilliance, Unimaginable Heartbreak
If there’s one thing that’s even more certain than a 1-20 shot at a racetrack, it’s the inevitability of death. It comes to all of mankind, and animals as well. Yet it remains immensely difficult to accept, especially when it comes far too early in someone’s life, such as it did for one of the greatest 2-year-old fillies of the 20th century. Landaluce seemed invincible on the racetrack. She won her five starts in dominant fashion, by a combined margin of 46 ½ lengths, including her first graded stakes victory, in which she romped home by 21 lengths.
