Kentucky Derby News

A sluggish start and a ding-dong battle down the homestretch pushed heavy favorite Bast to her limit in Friday’s $300,000 Chandelier Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita. But when push literally came to shove, Bast clenched her teeth and battled to a tenacious...

Irish maestro Aidan O’Brien won the Royal Lodge (G2) for the seventh time on Saturday, but with his apparent third-stringer at Newmarket. The longest shot on the board in both the British and North American betting, Royal Dornoch floored favored...

There were no mishaps this time to stop Eight Rings from scoring an authoritative victory in Friday's $301,404 American Pharoah (G1) at Santa Anita.
A beaten odds-on favorite in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) on Labor Day when losing his...

The first points on the European Road to the 2020 Kentucky Derby are up for grabs in Saturday’s Royal Lodge (G2) at Newmarket. Aidan O’Brien has three of the eight entrants but not the top choices in the betting market. (He also has three...

One day after the Royal Lodge (G2) opens the European Road to the Kentucky Derby, the second scoring race comes in quick succession in Sunday’s Beresford (G2) at the Curragh. Aidan O’Brien has owned this mile affair, winning a total of 18...

A standout field of nine two-year-old prospects will vie in Friday’s $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park. A berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) field on November 1 is on the line in the “Win & You’re...

Eight Rings lost all chance as the odds-on choice in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) earlier this month when ducking and dropping jockey Drayden Van Dyke leaving the backside chute. On Friday, the Bob Baffert-trained son of Empire Maker seeks to make amends...

An excellent field of nine juveniles will travel 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Friday in the $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes (G1). The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) “Win and You’re In” challenge series event will also serves as...

It was a day for upsets at Parx Racing in Pennsylvania, where the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) and the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) pitted some of the top three-year-old Thoroughbreds in North America against each other just six weeks before...

The defection earlier this week of Maximum Security from Saturday's $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) due to colon issues leaves the 1 1/8-mile event at Parx without the Kentucky Derby (G1)'s disqualified first-place finisher, but it does...