Samantha Lederman

A very special graduate returned to Dunbar High School Tuesday to receive the FCPS Andy Beshear Distinguished Alumni Award. WUKY's Samantha Lederman was there to watch it all unfold.

A new study confirms what most of us knew already: Kentucky is good for horses and horses are good for Kentucky. WUKY’s Samantha Lederman has the details.

Even if you’re not from Central Kentucky you may be familiar with the University of Kentucky’s basketball Wildcats, or you might have heard that we’re famous for being the Horse Capital of the World. WUKY’s Samantha Lederman recently attended a fund-raiser for the University of Kentucky Eventing Team who are combining the best of both worlds.

With just days remaining until the 150th Run For The Roses WUKY Samantha Lederman paid a visit to Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles. It's the current home of Kentucky Derby winners American Pharaoh and Justify, and their connections will be represented by Sierra Leone. In Saturday's race.

With Derby Fever in full swing here in Kentucky, WUKY’s Samantha Lederman has details on a special event at Keeneland that could make the 150th Run for the Roses more exciting and perhaps profitable for you.

Traditional fox hunting scenes - the pack of hounds running across fields, riders in scarlet coats galloping over hedges. Whether in wood paneled libraries or in the great old, English manor houses like Downton Abbey, they signify an old-fashioned, upper class era, a sport of a time long gone by. But as WUKY Horse Capital reporter Samantha Lederman discovered, fox-hunting still takes place all over the world. There are three different hunt clubs in Kentucky and she recently spent a day with Spencer Allen, the huntsman of the Long Run Woodford to find out more.

The Kentucky Wildcats’ final home game of the season takes place tonight in Rupp Arena and that means soon it’ll be March mania time once again. We don’t often send our equestrian reporter Samantha Lederman to cover basketball, but you may be surprised to learn that she shares a common passion with UK Sophomore forward Daimion Collins and she recently sat down with him (during practice) to find out a little more.

A new exhibit celebrating Black Americans' significant and unsung contributions to Thoroughbred Racing opens at the Keeneland Library Thursday and WUKY’s Samantha Lederman paid a visit to find out more.

Kentucky - we’re known for our bluegrass and bourbon, and Lexington likes to call itself the Horse Capital of the world, but for many years there’s been a quiet buzz around a certain bear. Come February that buzz is likely to turn into a roar as The Cocaine Bear hits cinema screens near you. WUKY’s Samantha Lederman shopped local to find out more

The US Department of Veterans affairs reports that more than 78,000 veterans died by suicide between 2005 and 2017, and the numbers have been climbing…