A year in pictures from Arthur and Staci Hancock’s Stone Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

MusicFest will include entertainment by a variety of acts including bluegrass bands, karaoke competitions, special guest DJ's and the Diane Moore Dancers.

Next Friday night, Freedom Hall will come alive with arena football and the Charlie Daniels band.

The gravestone is simple. It’s not a detailed statue depicting a Thoroughbred extended into full stride. A famous quotation isn’t chiseled into its surface. Flowers don’t even decorate the snow-covered ground in front of it. It merely displays a horse’s name and the years he lived: SECRETARIAT 1970-1989.

Last year's Derby win was supposed to be just the opening act for the partnership of Barbaro and jockey Edgar Prado.  Two weeks later, fate separated them forever.

The guest lists for last year’s big Derby parties included dozens of very familiar faces.

University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said Thursday that Billy Donovan will remain Florida’s basketball coach rather than consider taking the UK job.

The jockeys, trainers, and up-before-dawn backside corps might beg to differ, but for everyone else Derby Day is one gloriously carefree time.