Kentucky Derby News

Authentic, who joined an exclusive club by winning the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) in the same season, was the overwhelming choice for 2020 Horse of the Year at Thursday night’s Eclipse Awards.
Held as a virtual event...

A field of nine 3-year-old prospects will take aim at Gulfstream Park on Saturday in the $200,000 Holy Bull (G3). The 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series event offers points on a 10-4-2-1 basis to the top-four finishers towards qualifying...

A pair of Kentucky Oaks qualifiers, the $200,000 Martha Washington S. at Oaklawn Park and $100,000 Forward Gal S. (G2) at Gulfstream Park, will be offered Saturday. Both races award points on a 10-4-2-1 scale toward a berth in the April 30 Kentucky Oaks...

A brilliant 8 3/4-length maiden winner, Prime Factor will make his highly-anticipated stakes debut in Saturday’s $200,000 Holy Bull S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park. The exciting Quality Road colt faces eight challengers in the 1 1/16-mile test.
The Holy...

Medina Spirit, a closing second to early Kentucky Derby (G1) favorite Life Is Good in the Sham (G3) earlier this month, looms as perhaps the horse to beat on Saturday in the $100,000 Robert B. Lewis S. (G3) at Santa Anita.
The 1 1/16-mile Lewis offers...

Fourteen years after Hard Spun made a bold attempt to carry his speed in the Kentucky Derby (G1), his son Caddo River could try to do the same on the first Saturday in May.
Hard Spun was a warrior on the 2007 Triple Crown trail, finishing second in the...

The Man o’ War sire line hasn’t come up with a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner since Triple Crown sweeper War Admiral (1937), a factoid that current contender Midnight Bourbon hopes to erase.
Midnight Bourbon’s sire, Hall of Famer Tiznow,...

Shortleaf Stable’s homebred Caddo River earned 10 points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby following his 10 1/4-length tally in the $150,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 22. The winner completed one mile on the fast main surface...

Despite pulling early in first-time blinkers, Louis Lazzinnaro’s The Grass Is Blue still packed a punch late in Sunday’s $97,000 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct. The 1.75-1 favorite rallied past Coffee Bar to earn her first stakes victory, along...

The 2021 Kentucky Derby (G1) is less than 100 days away, but the current leaderboard looks as you might expect through the third week in January — not overly indicative of how things will look a month from now much less three.
Essential Quality,...