Kentucky Derby News

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...

Two scoring races on the European Road to the Kentucky Derby are set for Wednesday, both over a mile on Polytrack. The Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions race at Kempton has drawn a field of 10. The Patton S. at Dundalk, originally scheduled for March...

Code of Honor (#2, 54 points) bounced back to his best form and virtually secured a berth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) starting gate by taking last Saturday's $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream Park.
Having earned four points for running...

Code of Honor flashed enormous promise in his first two starts but nothing went according to plan over the following months as he was forced to scratch from a pair of Kentucky Derby qualifiers during the fall and recorded a disappointing fourth as an...

Everything has a foundation, something it can stand on and be supported by. For the horse breed known as the Thoroughbred, that would be the three Foundation Sires.
“And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created...

Champion Game Winner displayed courage on the racetrack to remain unbeaten at two, but he’d already come through a far more difficult experience: losing his mom as a baby.
Game Winner was bred by Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm, home to a select...

Champion juvenile filly Jaywalk turned in the worst finish of her six-race career while Jeltrin posted a 51-1 upset of Saturday's $200,000 Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream Park.
Switched out to the two path leaving the chute soon after the start,...