Recapturetheglory, fifth in the Kentucky Derby, has been declared out of the Preakness Stakes after showing a fever Friday night.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Recapturetheglory might skip the Preakness after developing a fever. The colt finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby.

LEXINGTON, Ky. It will be at least two weeks before additional information is known about what caused Eight Belles to break down in the Kentucky Derby, the filly's owner said Friday.

Local winner Icabad Crane and Holy Bull Stakes champ Hey Byrn have been added to the probable field for the middle jewel of racing's Triple Crown. As many as 12 to 14 three-year-olds may enter the starting gate on Saturday, May 17.

Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown was the main attraction Thursday morning when several Preakness Stakes hopefuls went to the Churchill Downs track.

NEW YORK The Jockey Club has formed a committee to study equine health, including track safety and the rules of racing, five days after the death of the filly Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby.

PHILADELPHIA Linda Hanna remembers how it was when the great filly Ruffian died after her injuries suffered in a match race in 1975.

Robby Albarado, the leading jockey this year in earnings, will have an oppotunity to claim his second straight Preakness Stakes. Trainer Ken McPeek has informed Pimlico Race Course that his Racecar Rhapsody will be part of the field in this year's Preakness.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown returned to the track at Churchill Downs on Wednesday, four days after his 4 3/4-length win in the Run for the Roses.

STANTON, Del. The trainer of Eight Belles is certain the filly was never on steroids, and has ordered tests to prove it.

LEXINGTON, Ky. About 20 animal-rights protesters waved signs outside the offices of the state's horse racing regulators Tuesday in response to the death of filly Eight Belles after the Kentucky Derby. Nearly as many people showed up to defend the sport from their attacks.

Additions and subtractions continue as the field for this year's Preakness Stakes takes shape. Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown may only see one other starter from the Run for the Roses.

Officially, Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby in 2:01 4/5 for the mile and one quarter. Unofficially, the race was over after 47 seconds.

"Momento y rapido."

The fatal breakdown of the filly Eight Belles on Saturday, shortly after she finished second in the Kentucky Derby, has prompted People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to demand the institution of "broad reforms to prevent future tragedies."

LEXINGTON, Ky. The trainer of euthanized filly Eight Belles adamantly defended the way jockey Gabriel Saez handled the Kentucky Derby runner-up. In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Larry Jones said Saez applied the whip only to prevent Eight Belles from crashing into the rail.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Jo Wickline, who has owned and ridden horses for 40 years, did not watch the Kentucky Derby this year for the first time .

The overpowering performance by Big Brown in Saturday's 134th Kentucky Derby has apparently scared away all but one his Run for the Roses rivals from the upcoming Preakness Stakes.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Looks like Big Brown's resounding Kentucky Derby victory has scared away a lot of the competition.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. A decade ago, Rick Dutrow was living in Tack Room D in Barn 1 on the Aqueduct backstretch, sleeping on a cot, cooking his meals in a microwave, training a $16,000 claimer and struggling to find owners who would give him horses.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. An hour after the Kentucky Derby, someone asked Pimlico executive Mike Gathagan: "Any chance of seeing the first walkover in the Preakness?"

LOUISVILLE, Ky. A decade ago, Rick Dutrow was living in Tack Room D in Barn 1 on the Aqueduct backstretch, sleeping on a cot, cooking his meals in a microwave, training a $16,000 claimer and struggling to find owners who would give him horses.

Jim Squires has bred five graded stakes winners, including the 2001 Derby champion Monarchos. If human athletes were euthanized on television every time one broke a leg or a neck in an accident, the NFL, NASCAR and Olympic skiing would be out of business.

In the aftermath of the death of Eight Belles, the filly that finished second in the Kentucky Derby, the debate heightened Sunday on the safety of horse racing.
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Denis of Cork, the third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, came out of the race in good shape but will skip the second leg of the Triple Crown.

LOUISVILLE At first, they kept the door closed to empty stall No. 11 at Barn 43 on the backstretch of Churchill Downs. All you could see was the bumper sticker: "I like Kentucky-bred Eight Belles."

Let's return the debate back to where it belongs. When Polytrack was first developed, the great horse racing debate was over whether this new artificial surface was indeed less dangerous for the animal than the traditional dirt surfaces.

There have been many a flattering word tossed Big Brown's way in the wake of his historic 43/4-length triumph in Saturday's Kentucky Derby.

FORT WORTH, Texas Maybe Big Brown will be the next cover boy superhorse, and perhaps he's on his way, with his victory Saturday in the Kentucky Derby, to a sweep of the gemstones. Or maybe his competition represents the biggest collection of losers since Jeff Spicoli was at Ridgemont High.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Sunday morning, trainer Larry Jones had his Kentucky Oaks-winning filly Proud Spell grazing under a tree at Churchill Downs while accepting a stream of condolences for the death of his other great one, Eight Belles.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. 6 A.M.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. At 8 a.m. Saturday, a local station showed the Kentucky Derby favorite being soaped up and rinsed off. "Derby Favorite Gets Bath!" was breaking news, because this past week, it was all Big Brown all the time. In the afternoon, he showed everybody why.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. The jockey of Eight Belles said he felt his horse start to "gallop funny" Saturday after getting past the wire in the Kentucky Derby.

LOUISVILLE, Ky LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When the muscular bay colt turned into the stretch at Churchill Downs Saturday, the 134th Kentucky Derby was all but over. Big Brown led by only a head with a quarter-mile to go, but he was accelerating like a sports car and his 19 opponents were running for second.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. The Governor of Kentucky toasted him and his horse, but Rick Dutrow Jr. fixed his eyes on a television screen above his head.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby by 4 } lengths, a race marred with tragedy after the only filly in the race, Eight Belles, lost her life.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. The trainer of Big Brown had been saying for days that no other horse had much of a chance.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. The ease with which Big Brown won Saturday's Kentucky Derby evoked immediate speculation that this undefeated colt might have what it takes to become racing's first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Michael Iavarone was sitting at home catching some late-night horse racing when he saw something that raised his eyebrows.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Big Brown's resounding triumph Saturday in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs was tempered by the demise of runner-up Eight Belles.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. It took several minutes for news of Eight Belles' terrible injuries and death to spread around Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Hard toward the finish, with giant strides propelling the plain but powerful Big Brown to victory in the Kentucky Derby by 4} lengths, the moment should have belonged entirely to the winner and his jockey, Kent Desormeaux, who was capturing the race for the third time.

LOUISVILLE, Ky LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Triumph and tragedy, ecstasy and despair.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. It was one of the first things that came to mind when Three Chimneys president Case Clay was asked about Eight Belles, the brilliant filly born and raised on his historic farm.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. A day after Big Brown blazed across the finish line, the snapshot of Eight Belles down on the dirt set off a raging debate that extended far beyond the Kentucky Derby: Is horse racing now facing an image crisis?

NORFOLK, Va. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles' jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

The last thing NBC producer Sam Flood does at the production meeting on the day of a horse race is go over the plans to cover a potential tragedy.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Big Brown gobbled up a few peppermints and did some leisurely laps around his barn Sunday while camera-snapping admirers gawked at the dominant winner of the Kentucky Derby.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Boy, did Eight Belles hang with the boys. All that heart and her gallant fight, however, ended in the worst of all possible ways: a breakdown, an ambulance on the track. And, with no other choice, she was euthanized by injection.

Hard toward the finish, with giant strides propelling the plain but powerful Big Brown to victory in the Kentucky Derby by 43/4 lengths, the moment should have belonged entirely to the winner and his jockey, Kent Desormeaux, who was capturing the race for the third time.