Kentucky Derby News

Records fell and jaws dropped on Saturday at Belmont Park when Gamine trounced half a dozen rivals in the $250,000 Acorn (G1), stamping her credentials as a favorite to win the Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks (G1).
First run in 1931, the historic Acorn boasts a...

The 2020 Belmont Stakes (G1) was already going to be one of many firsts before Tiz the Law provided even more in Saturday's $1 million renewal, which kicked off the year's Triple Crown series at a reduced distance of 1 1/8 miles.
The 4-5...

About nine hours after Kentucky Derby (G1) points leader Tiz the Law contests the Belmont S. (G1), his counterpart on the Japan Road, Cafe Pharoah, bids to increase his total in Sunday’s Unicorn S. (G3) at Tokyo. 
The Unicorn, held over a metric...

Saturday’s Belmont S. (G1) is three furlongs shorter than customary, but there’s no reduction in the pedigree influence of late Hall of Famer A. P. Indy. The hero of the 1992 Belmont factors in the ancestry of six of the 10 runners.
Four contenders...

Shaping up as one the shortest-priced favorites in recent race history by a non Triple Crown-seeking entrant, Tiz the Law was installed at 6-5 for Saturday's $1 million Belmont Stakes (G1).
Normally the annual finale to the Triple Crown, the 'Test...

A fantastic field of 10 will square off in Saturday’s $1 million Belmont Stakes (G1). Run as the initial leg of the Triple Crown this year for the first time in the 152-year history of the event, the Belmont Park feature attracted a serious cast...

Saturday’s $300,000 Acorn (G1) at Belmont Park features an exciting match-up between unbeaten fillies Casual Look and Gamine. Both will be making their stakes debut the one-mile event, and the Acorn has been added as Road to the Kentucky Oaks qualifier.
The...

Normally we’d be discussing Belmont S. (G1) probables after the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1), but in this topsy-turvy world of COVID-19, the Triple Crown race order has been switched. The Belmont leapfrogs to the first in the series, on...

A talented field of 12 turf specialists will travel 1 1/2 miles in Saturday’s $100,000 Louisville S. (G3) at Churchill Downs. Grade 1 victor Arklow is the most accomplished entrant in the cast as the one to beat under Florent Geroux. But the...

A lot can change in a month when you're talking about a Kentucky Derby (G1) in May or, as is the case this year, September.
Within the last 10 days, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has seen his leading candidates Nadal and Charlatan, each of whom...