Derby News

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If you can’t make it to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby, the next best option is celebrating and cheering on the horses at home.

An
overflow field of 13 sophomore fillies will travel 1 1/8 miles over the Keeneland
lawn in Saturday’s $600,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. (G1). A handful
of the contenders in the fascinating cast have been primarily based overseas,
and...

Siena
Farm and WinStar Farm’s Timberlake picked up 10 points on the 2024 Road to the
Kentucky Derby challenge series after drawing off to a 4 1/4-length score in the
$500,000 Champagne S. (G1) at Aqueduct on Oct. 7. Piloted by Florent Geroux,
the...

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm’s Locked earned 10 points on the 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following his half-length victory in the $580,750 Breeders’ Futurity S. (G1) at Keeneland on Oct. 7. The juvenile...

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm’s Locked overcame a wide trip to prevail as the odds-on favorite in Saturday’s $580,750 Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland. The Todd Pletcher trainee outdueled hitherto undefeated The Wine...

Bettors were slightly cool toward Timberlake for the first time in the
two-year-old colt's four-race career in Saturday's $500,000 Champagne (G1) at
Aqueduct. The faithful were rewarded when Timberlake proved comfortably best in
the 2024 Road...

A pair of Kentucky Oaks qualifiers took place on opposite
coasts Saturday. In the $202,000 Chandelier (G2) at
Santa Anita, Chatalas made all
the pace and recorded her first stakes victory, scoring by 1 1/2 lengths. Just F Y I made her stakes debut a winning
one...

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Candied aced her class and distance tests in Friday’s $600,000 Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland, earning a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) as well as 10 points toward the Kentucky Oaks (G1).
The...

Champion sprinter Speightstown is the paternal grandsire of two Champagne (G1) heroes, Jack Christopher (2021) and Firenze Fire (2017), and now he’ll try to get on the sires’ honor roll himself with two sons squaring off at Aqueduct on Saturday.
Speightstown,...