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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom McCarthy retired from a life roaming the hallways and classrooms at Louisville high schools almost 20 years ago. The lessons, however, keep on coming. The former biology teacher and high school ...