Kentucky Derby News

There will be a lot of moving parts throughout the next three weeks until the Kentucky Derby but Saturday’s Lexington Stakes is a major part of deciding who’s in and who’s out of this year’s field.

Just one race remains on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, the $400,000 Lexington Stakes (Grade III) run on Saturday at Keeneland.
Throughout the last seven months, the field for this year’s 150th running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby presented by...

Different criteria go into the search for my next Kentucky Derby winner, but the main thing that I look for is a horse with a ‘wow factor.’ The phrase has various interpretations, but it works for me.

Ric Waldman and Emily Bushnell’s Resilience earned 100 points on the 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series leaderboard following his 2 1/4-length triumph in the $750,000 Wood Memorial S. (G2) at Aqueduct on April 6.

The Road to the Kentucky Derby series closes Saturday with the $400,000 Lexington (G3) at Keeneland

The $1 million Blue Grass (G1) at Keeneland on April 6 will yield multiple runners for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 4, and here are three takeaways

The last of eight major qualifiers in the Road to the Kentucky Derby series, the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby (G1) on April 6 has played an important role in recent decades, and here are three takeaways

The Road to the Kentucky Derby made its final stop in New York for the $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) on April 6, and here are three takeaways

“He’s been a star since he’s been born.” So trainer Chad Brown aptly summed up Sierra Leone in his postrace interview at Keeneland.

The penultimate weekend of Championship Series races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby did not disappoint.