August 28, 2020
The 2020 Kentucky Derby is just over a week away, but the winner of the 2019 race has finally been made official. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit made the decision on Friday to uphold the decision to disqualify Maximum Security from the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby, crowning second-place finisher…
March 9, 2020
The first Kentucky Derby winner ever disqualified from the race is once again making headlines for the wrong reasons. Maximum Security trainer Jason Servis is one of 27 people indicted by the Southern District of New York in a wide-ranging horse racing doping scheme. Servis is alleged to have administered performance-enhancing drugs “to virtually all the…
May 7, 2019
With interest in horse racing as high as it has been in a long time (thanks, controversy!), the sport’s next big race is very un-interesting. Horse racing’s two biggest stars at the moment — Maximum Security and Country House — will both skip the second leg of the Triple Crown, each for different reasons. Maximum…
