Kentucky Derby News

With a pedigree as rich as his cognac namesake, Courvoisier splashed into the Kentucky Derby (G1) picture in Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome S. at Aqueduct. The son of Tapit and champion Take Charge Brandi tracked the pace and drove clear in the slop...

Billy Turner, who trained Seattle Slew to a win the Kentucky Derby
(G1) and to a Triple Crown sweep in 1977, died on Dec. 31 in his Reddick,
Florida, home at the age of 81.
Turner, who had suffered from prostate cancer for several years, had entered
hospice...

Saturday’s trio of Kentucky Derby (G1) points races begins with the $150,000 Jerome S. at Aqueduct. Eight aspiring sophomores have entered the one-mile affair set for 3:50 p.m. (ET). Like the ensuing scoring events on New Year’s Day –...

A full field of 14 newly turned three-year-olds will travel one mile in Saturday’s $250,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park. The 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby series event will reward the top four finishers with qualifying points on a 10-4-2-1...

The Road to the Kentucky Derby series makes the first of
four stops at Oaklawn Park on Saturday, as a field of 14 will compete for 17 points
(10-4-2-1 scale) in the $250,000 Smarty Jones S.
Contested over a two-turn mile, the Smarty Jones will mark
the...

A multiple stakes winner on turf, and a fast-closing third in
the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), Mackinnon
will move to the main track for Saturday’s $100,000 Sham S. (G3) at Santa
Anita.
Five runners are set for the two-turn mile test,...

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Epicenter picked up 10 points on the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following his 6 1/2-length romp in the $98,000 Gun Runner S. at Fair Grounds on December 26. The winner clocked 1 1/16 miles on the fast...

Sunday’s inaugural running of the $98,000 Gun Runner S. was going to be a memorable occasion for connections of the race’s namesake, the 2017 Horse of the Year who is now a record-breaking freshman sire. But the result turned out to be...

Rocket Dawg winning his debut at Churchill Downs (Coady Photography)
The Road to the Kentucky Derby just got a little bit longer. Sunday's inaugural running of the $100,000 Gun Runner S. at Fair Grounds serves as a new steppingstone to the 'Run...

A total of seven two-year-olds will go postward in Sunday’s $100,000 Gun Runner S. at Fair Grounds. The 1 1/16-mile contest acts as a 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series race, with the top four finishers earning points towards the Run...