Medina Spirit saga shows how out-of-step horse racing is with other sports, where there are attempts to find those who are doping and punish them.

Yes, he was the captain of the Enterprise, but William Shatner is also a dedicated horseman and founder of the Hollywood Charity Horse Show. His love of horses is on display in his charming new book.

In what turned out to be the horse’s last race, Medina Spirit finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic Nov. 6 at Del Mar racetrack. Just over four weeks later, the 3-year-old colt was dead.

Medina Spirit, the race horse whose victory in the Kentucky Derby had been called into question by a failed post-race drug test, died on Monday after a timed workout.

Horse racing is cruel, mercenary, abusive and lethal. “Medina Spirit’s [death] is the biggest . . . in horse racing currently,” Patrick Battuello, founder and president of Horseracing Wrongs ...

It is separate from the newsroom. On May 1, Medina Spirit, a horse trained by Bob Baffert, one of the stars of thoroughbred racing, somewhat unexpectedly won the Kentucky Derby.

Spirit Horse right at home on Dancing Crane Ranch Dancing Crane Ranch sits on 380 acres in Sawyer, Minn., and is home to chickens, a sheepdog, a couple ponies, a herd of about 12 bison, and now, a ...

Janice Dapitan, left, speaks with Paige DePonte as a horse named Maverick stands nearby, as part of a philanthropy-supported equine therapy program at the Spirit Horse Ranch, on Tuesday, July 9 ...

The Spirit Horse Ranch founder Paige DePonte walks with Maverick, one of the horses at her equine-assisted trauma-informed care facility, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Kula, Hawaii.