Kentucky Derby News

Two internationally based runners who were on the Triple Crown trail in the past couple of years, Thunder Snow and Gronkowski, reappear Saturday in a key prep race for the Dubai World Cup (G1). They square off in the $600,000 Al Maktoum Challenge...

Dream Maker returns to the stakes ranks after an 8 1/2-length allowance romp and Win Win Win stretches out to two turns following a track record-setting performance. The promising three-year-olds highlight a field of 11 in Saturday’s $400,000 Tampa...

This week’s Road to the Kentucky Derby features a stakes tripleheader on Saturday.
    Originally, four races were scheduled but the San Felipe (Grade II) has been tabled while Santa Anita’s track undergoes additional extensive...

An excellent field of eight will vie in Saturday’s $300,000 Gotham Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct. The Road to the Kentucky Derby event will offer points to the top-four finishers on a 50-20-10-5 basis.
California invader Instagrand will make his much-anticipated...

William S. Farish’s homebred Code of Honor earned 50 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby following his game tally in the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. The sophomore colt now sits in second with 54 total points...

The European Road to the Kentucky Derby wound its way through England and Ireland in the span of 20 minutes Tuesday evening, with course specialists winning the Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions Stakes at Kempton Park and Patton Stakes at Dundalk.
Both...

Three Road to the Kentucky Oaks qualifiers will be held Saturday across the country, led by the $200,000 Honeybee (G3) at Oaklawn Park. The 10-horse field will travel 1 1/16 miles.
The probable favorite is the Tom Van Berg-trained Motion Emotion, who...

Put away for the season after two authoritative victories to start his career last summer, Instagrand gets back to work Saturday in the $300,000 Gotham (G3), a one-mile Road to the Kentucky Derby series prep at Aqueduct.
Winner on debut at Los Alamitos...

Despite being re-opened for entries after its transfer to Wednesday, the Patton S. at Dundalk features the same cast as originally drawn. Aidan O’Brien holds a strong hand in the European Road to the Kentucky Derby scoring race, won last year by...

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s Grade I-winning duo of Game Winner and Improbable along with last weekend’s Fountain of Youth (Grade II) winner Code of Honor are the individual morning line favorites in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future...