Kentucky Derby News

Derby’s First Featured Milliner Continues Role for Fourth Consecutive Year
LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 16, 2020 – Churchill Downs Racetrack today announced that Christine Moore will continue for the fourth year as a featured milliner of the...

Point values increased from the Feb. 13 Risen Star S. (G2), and Mandaloun likely guaranteed his Kentucky Derby participation by posting a 1 1/4-length victory.
As part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series, the 1 1/8-mile Risen Star awarded points...

Sent off as the 6-5 favorite in Saturday’s $101,350 El Camino Real Derby, Rombauer closed from last to deny the filly Javanica by a neck at Golden Gate Fields. John and Diane Fradkin’s homebred added 10 more points toward the Kentucky Derby...

After coming up short as the odds-on favorite in the Lecomte S. (G3), Mandaloun rebounded with the addition of blinkers in Saturday’s $400,000 Risen Star S. (G2) at Fair Grounds, driving to a 1 1/4-length victory.
The 1 1/8-mile Risen Star is the...

Stonestreet Stables’ homebred Clairiere had been collared by Travel Column late in the Nov. 28 Golden Rod S. (G2), but turned the tables in Saturday’s $300,000 Rachel Alexandra S. (G2) at Fair Grounds. This time the one rallying in deep stretch,...

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The Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series is set to kickoff Saturday in New Orleans with a field of 13 horses...

Rerouted from the Jan. 30 Robert B. Lewis (G3) at Santa Anita to Saturday’s $100,000 El Camino Real Derby, Rombauer is the one to beat in the 1 1/8-mile test at Golden Gate Fields. 
The Michael McCarthy trainee figures to be effective on the...

The $400,000 Risen Star S. (G2) will headline a big day of action on Fair Grounds on Saturday. A total of six stakes events are on the slate at the New Orleans venue, led by the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series contest. The top four...

Godolphin’s Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farm’s undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade III) winner Life Is Good were made the 8-1 individual morning line favorites in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future...

Travel Column and Clairiere, who both made a favorable post-Breeders' Cup impression in Kentucky last fall, will resume their burgeoning rivalry on Saturday in the $300,000 Rachel Alexandra S. (G2) at Fair Grounds.
With 50 qualifying points for...