Kentucky Derby News

Early nominations for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds to become eligible to compete in the 2022 Triple Crown series are due Saturday, Jan. 29 with a $600 payment.

Payment for early Triple Crown nominations must be made at the time of entry on
www.TheTripleCrown.com....

Runner-up in the Tempted S. and a close third in the Demoiselle (G2), Magic Circle will try to earn her first stakes win in Sunday’s $100,000 Busanda S. at Aqueduct. Only five other fillies entered the Road to the Kentucky Oaks event, worth points...

An excellent field of nine three-year-olds will travel 1 1/16 miles on the Fair Grounds dirt in Saturday’s $200,000 Lecomte S. (G3). The 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series event will give qualifying points towards the Run for the Roses...

Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager
(“KDFW”) is set to open at noon Friday with the pari-mutuel field of “All
Other 3-Year-Olds” tabbed as the heavy 7-5 morning line favorite.
The second of five pools
for the KDFW will run...

Kentucky Derby and Oaks alumni came out in force at Oaklawn and Tampa Bay Downs over the last week! Several more are in action on a huge Saturday at Fair Grounds, and a Derby alumni and Champion who has not raced in 10 months has returned to the worktab...

Royally-bred fillies La Crete and Sweet as Pie will vie for Kentucky Oaks (G1) points in Saturday’s $150,000 Silverbulletday S. at Fair Grounds. Named for the Hall of Famer who began her march to the Oaks at the historic New Orleans track in 1999,...

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) runner-up Pappacap looks to maintain his position atop the Kentucky Derby (G1) points leaderboard in Saturday’s $200,000 Lecomte (G3) at Fair Grounds. Epicenter, hero of the recent Gun Runner S., aims to knock him...

What can Horse of the Year Gun Runner do to follow up his record-setting season as a freshman sire? After rocketing to the top of the juvenile sire charts with more than $4 million in progeny earnings – a North American record for a first crop –...

The highly-regarded Not This Time was retired with an injury before getting an opportunity to shine on the 2017 Triple Crown trail, but the well-bred stallion is making his presence felt on the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby.

Epicenter became the first...

Heading further into January, we’ve seen one of the Kentucky Oaks contenders who took a nice, long break after that race looking better than ever into her four-year-old year.  There is also a Kentucky Derby contender from 2020 who found a tough...