LEXINGTON, Ky.—Horse racing’s oversight authority will hold an emergency summit Tuesday with Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s racing commission and HISA veterinary teams to review information and analysis in the wake of 12 horse fatalities in the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) announced Monday that it…

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—A horse died Sunday after a race at Churchill Downs, making it the eighth fatality in recent weeks at the home of the Kentucky Derby. Rio Moon “suffered a catastrophic injury to his left foreleg a few strides after the wire,” according to notes in the Equibase chart for the sixth race. The 3-year-old…

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Churchill Downs suspended trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. indefinitely and Lord Miles, who is trained by Joseph, was scratched from the Kentucky Derby on Thursday, days after the sudden death of two of his horses at the track. The suspension prohibits Joseph, or any trainer directly or indirectly employed by him, from entering horses in…

American elites have constructed an alternate reality where truth is turned inside out: Former President Donald Trump is a Russian spy. COVID vaccines are safe and effective. Hunter Biden’s laptop is disinformation. Jan. 6 was an insurrection. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Churchill, etc. But U.S. elites don’t think they’re lying to you, they believe their…

American elites have constructed an alternate reality where truth is turned inside out: Former President Donald Trump is a Russian spy. COVID vaccines are safe and effective. Hunter Biden’s laptop is disinformation. Jan. 6 was an insurrection. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Churchill, etc. But U.S. elites don’t think they’re lying to you, they believe their…

American elites have constructed an alternate reality where truth is turned inside out: Former President Donald Trump is a Russian spy. COVID vaccines are safe and effective. Hunter Biden’s laptop is disinformation. Jan. 6 was an insurrection. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Churchill, etc. But U.S. elites don’t think they’re lying to you, they believe their…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants her fellow Prairie premiers to take the lead in expanding the capacity of the rail and port systems in Churchill, Manitoba, an expensive idea that analysts say has some merit. Smith wrote Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson on Oct. 24 to request a meeting in Churchill…

OTTAWA—It’s not clear how they did it: was it a clandestine operation, carried out under the cloak of darkness? An elaborate ruse, designed to fool onlookers? Or something else? However it happened, it’s clear those who stole a world−famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier planned the heist meticulously. It took more…

The Château Laurier says it’s been able to narrow down a time frame of when it believes a famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill was stolen from its walls: sometime between Christmas Day last year and Jan. 6. The hotel appealed for help from the public yesterday after a staff member noticed the photo wasn’t…

It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy. A staff member at Ottawa’s Château Laurier noticed on Friday that the frame in the Reading Lounge wasn’t hanging properly and…