Royal North (G2) and Belle Mahone (G3) Stakes

Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza has been moved to a rehabilitation facility to recover from a fractured vertebra in his neck sustained during a training accident. Agent Brian Beach tweeted Friday that Espinoza had left the hospital, where he had been up and walking around in the days after being

Thousand Words was a late scratch for the Kentucky Derby after rearing up and then falling over backward in the paddock area just before the race. Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert and listed at 15-1 odds with Florent Geroux aboard, the horse was walking through the paddock when he suddenly stopped, reared up and then fell backward before workers helped him up. Thousands of protesters are marching around the gates surrounding Churchill Downs, chanting Breonna Taylor’s name less than an hour before the 146th Kentucky Derby.