Kentucky Derby News

Triple Crown winner Justify took top honors at Thursday night’s 48th annual Eclipse Awards gala, often described as American horse racing’s version of the Oscars. The champion three-year-old male by unanimous vote, Justify was also named 2018...

A fantastic field of 12 will go postward in the $9 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. The cast includes some of the best horses in training with Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner and Horse of the Year finalist...

The nomination period for all 3-year-old Thoroughbreds to compete in the races of the 2019 Triple Crown – the $3 million Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I), the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes (GI) and the $1.5 million Belmont...

The Best Bet of the weekend comes from Oaklawn Park on Friday in the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes. Nine sophomores will travel one-mile in the Road to the Kentucky Derby points contest.
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Gary Barber’s War of Will  soared to the top of the Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard by taking the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) at Fair Grounds February 16. The first race of the 'Championship Series,'...

The final Road to the Kentucky Derby series prep for the month of January is Friday's $150,000 Smarty Jones, the opening day feature of the 2019 meet at Oaklawn Park.
The one-mile Smarty Jones is a lead-in to Oaklawn's other Kentucky Derby...

With a resounding victory in last weekend's Lecomte (G3) at Fair Grounds, War of Will entered the Kentucky Derby leaderboard for the first time at #9 after earning 10 qualifying points.
The only other horse to enter the Top 20 via the Lecomte was...

Nine have been entered to go a mile at Oaklawn Park in Friday's Smarty Jones Stakes, and the contest has attracted the top two from the Remington Springboard Mile as well as the winner of the Sugar Bowl Stakes.
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Mike Abraham, an Eclipse Award finalist for outstanding breeder thanks to Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) star Accelerate, has now come up with a potential Kentucky Oaks (G1) filly. The Abraham-bred Needs Supervision made a successful stakes debut in...

War of Will passed his fast-track debut with flying colors on Saturday, emphatically capturing the $200,000 Lecomte (G3) at Fair Grounds by four lengths under Tyler Gaffalione.
Tugging a bit when racing three wide just off the leaders down the backside,...