Kentucky Derby News

Wednesday’s Juddmonte International (G1) at York, the biggest event during the British track’s four-day “Ebor Festival,” is likely to have a bearing on two Breeders’ Cup races. A “Win and You’re In” for...

by Joe Kristufek
Crowned Kentucky Oaks (G1) champions the past two years at Churchill Downs, Abel Tasman (2017) and Monomoy Girl (2018) loom as two of the early favorites for what should be an epic edition of Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) .
Held...

Instagrand dazzling at Del Mar; Call Paul gritty at Saratoga
Two unbeaten colts scored graded stakes victories over the weekend, raising their profiles on the road to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and potentially the 2019 Kentucky Derby (G1)....

The race for the Eclipse Award for champion three-year-old is in the books with Triple Crown sensation Justify having locked up the hardware with his six-for-six record. 
But that doesn’t take anything away from the foes Justify defeated during...

Champion Good Magic, the best of his generation until Justify arrived on the scene and swept the Triple Crown, could re-emerge as King of the Hill when he returns in the Haskell Invitational (G1) on Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Good Magic, winner of the Breeders’...

Although Justify has been retired, his Triple Crown form was advertised in three key races over the weekend.
Sunday’s $1,010,000 Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park was dominated by colts who’d placed to Justify in the first two jewels...

Triple Crown winner Justify's racing career is officially over. His retirement was announced via press release Wednesday afternoon.
'Justify had some filling in his ankle, and he is just not responding quick enough for a fall campaign,'...

Millionaire Bolt d’Oro, who ran well below form when unplaced in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and the Met Mile (G1) on Belmont Day, has switched trainers. Hitherto trained by his owner Mick Ruis, Bolt d’Oro has moved into Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen’s...

The $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) will be run Sunday, but August 3 marks the actual 50th anniversary of the race's first appearance on the Monmouth Park schedule.
Inaugurated as a more lucratively-enticing way of attracting some of the...

Kentucky Oaks (G1) heroine Monomoy Girl likely wrapped up the title of champion three-year-old filly with a fourth straight Grade 1 victory in Sunday’s $291,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) at Saratoga. The anticipated clash with Midnight Bisou...