It was a scary Sunday March 14 for owner/trainer Tom McCarthy, but by the morning of March 19 the alarm bells for General Quarters fell silent once again. On March 14, McCarthy was leading his ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Tom McCarthy, whose success as the owner and trainer of the rags-to-riches horse General Quarters was one of the top feel-good stories in racing in recent times, died early Thursday ...

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 ...