LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- General Quarters, the two-time Grade 1 winner who made his septuagenarian owner-trainer one of the most popular Kentucky Derby stories of recent years, was retired Monday after ...

General Quarters , a grade I winner who gave his septuagenarian owner Tom McCarthy the thrill of a lifetime when contesting the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), has been retired ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A year ago General Quarters and owner-trainer Tom McCarthy were among the favorite stories leading up the 2009 Kentucky Derby, with McCarthy becoming a media darling, as a former ...

General Quarters , who last year ran 10th in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), returned to rainy Churchill Downs May 1 and won the race preceding the 2010 Run for the Roses, the ...

Grade 1 winner General Quarters, who was sold to bloodstock agent Omer Aydin for $50,000 on Friday at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, will continue his stallion career in Turkey. The ...

LOUISVILLE – My high school biology teacher, Mr. Mitnick, gave me a tongue-lashing I’ve never forgotten, cut me up and down like one of his precious little frogs. Tom McCarthy, who taught the same ...

With five months left on its lease, the General’s Quarters restaurant – a staple at the Trenton-Mercer Airport for the last 30 years – closed its doors unexpectedly, leaving behind a staff of 20 who ...

This story appears in the April 20, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated. Horse racing has benefited in recent years from a succession of appealing Triple Crown story lines that helped elevate the sport ...

LOUISVILLE — Tom McCarthy's one-man show is back to its former glory. General Quarters, the lone horse owned and trained by McCarthy, earned his first victory in more than a year when he outfought ...