Live updates: Kentucky Derby action, news

Herald-Leader staff members report live from the Kentucky Derby.

Tweets from https://twitter.com/heraldleader/lists/kentucky-derby-2015

To stay on top of all the Derby Day action on Twitter, here are some of the best accounts to follow.

@horseracinghl — Alicia Wincze Hughes is the Herald-Leader’s Grade I racing writer and operates the paper’s Twitter account.

@janetpattonhl — Janet ­Patton of the Herald-Leader covers bourbon, horses, equine sports and the ­business of racing and breeding.

@CJ_Jennie — Jennie Rees of the Courier-Journal has covered horse racing with a passion for a couple of decades and is the 2015 winner of the Tom Hammond Kentucky Sports Media Award.

@KentuckyDerby — The ­official Twitter account for the Kentucky Derby.

@DerbyContenders — Account that tracks Derby contenders from 2-year-old seasons up to the Run for the Roses.

@DRFMcGee — Marty McGee is the Kentucky correspondent for the Daily Racing Form, a UK graduate, Louisville native and the brother of trainer Paul McGee.

@DRFRusso — Kentucky-based Nicole Russo chases down everything on the backstretch (and other places) for the Daily Racing Form.

@ABRLive — America’s Best Racing is promotional account for horse racing that focuses on the best the sport has to offer on and off the track.

@BH_CNovak — Claire Novak is the online features editor for Blood-Horse and ­winner of the Eclipse Award for writing.

@randy_moss_TV — Randy Moss works for NBC Sports, NFL Network and the Golf Channel, but knows his horses.

@donnabbrothers — Donna Barton Brothers is a former jockey and current racing reporter for NBC.

@raypaulick — Ray Paulick is the former editor of Blood-Horse who now runs his own Huffington Post-style web site, Paulick Report.

@DRFPrivman — Jay Privman is the national correspondent for the Daily Racing Form who specializes in covering the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup, as well as works for NBC Sports.

@joedrape — Joe Drape is the racing writer for the New York Times who has done much good work reporting on the sport’s problems.

@SITimLayden — Tim Layden covers horse racing, among many other things, for Sports Illustrated and is one of the best, most thorough reporters in any genre.

@BklynBckstretch — Teresa Genaro is a writer, teacher and freelancer based in New York who also writes about horses for Forbes.

@johnasher — VP for Churchill Downs who loves music almost as much as he loves the Derby.

@AlexBrownRacing — Alex Brown is a teacher, former exercise rider and freelance writer who has tweeted over 20,000 times.

@trifectabox — J.J. Hysell is a sports journalist based in Louisville, who runs the In The Money blog and has picked a successful longshot or two.

@KeeneGal — Melissa Nolan describes herself as a “fanalyst” who has her finger on the pulse of racing from a fan’s perspective.

@DRFWatchmaker — Mike Watchmaker is the national handicapper for the Daily Racing Form.

@katiegensler — Katie Gensler is a freelance analyst/handicapper for Horse Racing TV who is also the paddock reporter at Keeneland.

@Thorotrends – Boston’s Dan Needhman offers big and small data, plenty of it useful.

@NotTheToddster — Even if you are not a fan of parody accounts, it’s hard not to laugh at this fake Todd Pletcher account just because it is so un-Todd Pletcher.

This story was originally published May 1, 2015 at 8:13 PM with the headline "Live updates: Kentucky Derby action, news."