Kentucky Derby News

Expert picks January 11, 2019

La Signare can seal the deal as the weekend's best bet

Gulfstream Park plays host to a 12-race card on Saturday with two graded tests among the events. The $100,000 Marshua's River (G3) is one of those and it is where the Best Bet of the Weekend comes from.
The lightly raced La Signare (#7) (3-1)...

January 10, 2019

Kentucky Derby Purse Raised to $3 Million

The 145th running of the
Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) on Saturday, May 4 will
be the richest in history as the purse for America’s greatest race and first
leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown has been elevated to a...

January 10, 2019

Kentucky Derby Purse Raised to $3 Million

The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) on Saturday, May 4 will be the richest in history as the purse for America’s greatest race and first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown has been elevated to a...

January 10, 2019

Kentucky Derby Purse Raised to $3 Million

The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) on Saturday, May 4 will be the richest in history as the purse for America’s greatest race and first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown has been elevated to a...

Derby News January 8, 2019

Mind Control, Gunmetal Gray advance up Kentucky Derby leaderboard

Half of the four Road to the Kentucky Derby preps scheduled in the month of January are in the books, and joining the point leaderboard early in 2019 was Mind Control, who earned 10 points for winning the $150,000 Jerome at Aqueduct on New Year's...

January 7, 2019

Kentucky Oaks winner Abel Tasman sells for $5 million

Abel
Tasman, the 2017 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner and champion three-year-old
filly who is also an

Eclipse Award finalist for 2018 champion older dirt female honors, was sold
to Coolmore for $5 million at Monday's first session of the 2019 Keeneland
January...

January 7, 2019

Kentucky Oaks winner Abel Tasman sells for $5 million

Abel Tasman, the 2017 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner and champion three-year-old filly who is also an Eclipse Award finalist for 2018 champion older dirt female honors, was sold to Coolmore for $5 million at Monday's first session of the 2019 Keeneland...

January 7, 2019

Royal Marine set for dirt test in UAE 2000 Guineas Trial

The midterm points leader on the European Road to the Kentucky Derby, Godolphin’s homebred Royal Marine is expected to try dirt for the first time in Dubai Thursday.
The Saeed bin Suroor trainee is among a large group of preliminary entries for...

January 7, 2019

Kentucky Oaks winner Abel Tasman sells for $5 million

Abel Tasman, the 2017 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner and champion three-year-old filly who is also an Eclipse Award finalist for 2018 champion older dirt female honors, was sold to Coolmore for $5 million at Monday's first session of the 2019 Keeneland...

January 7, 2019

Bellafina back to brilliant best in Santa Ynez

Kaleem Shah’s Bellafina is back. Turning the page on her subpar effort in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), the Simon Callaghan trainee romped in Sunday’s $200,000 Santa Ynez S. (G2) by 8 1/2 lengths. That’s almost...

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