Kentucky Derby News

Live Oak Plantation’s homebred Soup and Sandwich has earned 40 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series off the strength of his runner-up performance in the Florida Derby (G1) on March 27. The gray will make his second Grade...

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Midnight Bourbon ranks 10th on the current 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby series leaderboard with 66 points. The Steve Asmussen trainee has compiled a 7-2-2-3 mark, with $461,420 in lifetime earnings to date.
Midnight Bourbon...

Derby Day has its traditions: cool mint juleps, yummy Derby pie, and trips to the betting window. Whether you wager at the Downs or at home on the TwinSpires app, you know that Derby Day will be a frenzy of stakes races with opportunities to cash in,...

Super Stock’s success is a heartwarming story of family – for his current connections, the renowned Asmussens, as well as for his breeders, Pedro Gonzalez and grandson P.J.

Pedro Gonzalez, a Cuban-American who came to the United States at...

Bernard Racing LLC, Tagg
Team Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds and Terry L. Stephens’ O
Besos was the lone Derby contender to breeze
Thursday at Churchill Downs where he cruised a half-mile in :48.
    With jockey Marcelino Pedroza
in...

Erv Woolsey and Keith Asmussen’s Super Stock punched his ticket to Churchill Downs on May 1 by posting a 2 1/2-length triumph in the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn Park on April 10. The colt earned 100 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky...

Bernard Racing, Tagg Team Racing, and West Point Thoroughbreds’ O Besos has compiled 25 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series and currently ranks 19th on the leaderboard. His career mark reads 5-2-0-1, $172,624.

The Greg...

St. Elias Stable, Phipps Stable, and Repole Stable’s Dynamic One is tied for 15th with 40 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series. The chestnut was runner-up in the Wood Memorial S. (G2) in his most recent endeavor.
Trained...

Exline-Border Racing, SAF Racing, and Richard Hausman’s Dream Shake earned 30 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series this season. He ranks in 18th place on the leaderboard, and the dark bay boasts a career mark of 3-1-0-2,...

A big cast of sophomores will go postward in the $150,000 William Walker S. in the opening-day feature at Churchill Downs on Saturday. An overflow field of 12 will endure the 5 1/2-furlong turf test, and I think the event is ripe for an upset with question...