Kentucky Derby News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gunmetal Gray made a last-to-first rally to defeat heavily favored Coliseum and five others in Saturday's $100,702 Sham (G3) at Santa Anita, the first Road to the Kentucky Derby series prep of 2019.
Never more than seven lengths off an early pace...

A field of seven newly turned three-year-olds is set to enter the gates at Santa Anita Park on Saturday to take part in the $100,000 Sham Stakes (G3), the second Road to the Kentucky Derby points contest of 2019.
The field is divided between four trainers,...

The second event on the Road to the Kentucky Derby series will take place at Santa Anita on Saturday in the $100,000 Sham Stakes (G3). A field of seven will go postward in the one-mile test, and the pair of Bob Baffert-trained sophomores in the cast...

A lackluster fourth as the favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), Bellafina aims to regain her winning habit in Sunday’s $200,000 Santa Ynez (G2). The seven-furlong contest at Santa Anita looms as the first Kentucky Oaks (G1)...