Kentucky Derby News

Churchill Downs Racetrack today re-emphasized its annual enhanced security measures for horses competing in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) and ongoing safety and integrity measures included in its “Safety from Start to...

My Boy Jack’s bargain yearling price belies his pedigree as well as his birthplace. He was bred by former Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones and raised at his Airdrie Stud, whose roots go back to the most illustrious Bluegrass farm of the 19th century.
Airdrie...

E Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stables’ 2-year-old champion Good Magic headed a group of six hopefuls for next Saturday’s $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) putting in works at Churchill Downs on...

The ever-professional Flameaway strives to become the third Canadian-bred winner of the Kentucky Derby (G1), emulating his direct male-line ancestor Northern Dancer (1964) and Sunny’s Halo (1983).
Descended from Northern Dancer via the Storm Cat...

1. The 1930s saw several firsts at the Kentucky Derby. Lawrin's victory in 1938 was the first won by trainer Ben Jones and jockey Eddie Arcaro, who would team up to win a record four Derbies together. There was also the first (and so far only) father-son...

Two-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Todd Pletcher put his 2018 Run for the Roses arsenal on full display Friday morning at Churchill Downs under a cloudless sky with four workers.
Three Pletcher workers were on the track during the special 7:30-7:45...

Firenze Fire, the first foal of a mare claimed – against advice – for $16,000, has been a hard-trying overachiever for owner/breeder Ron Lombardi’s Mr. Amore Stable.
Lombardi knows all about training of the human variety as the president...

One year after Thunder Snow’s bucking bronco exhibition, Godolphin resumes its quest for the Kentucky Derby (G1) with another homebred. But unlike Irish-bred Thunder Snow, who came to Churchill Downs via Europe and Dubai, Enticed hails from the...

Born in an historic New York neighborhood, Audible hopes to become only the second horse bred in the Empire State to win the Kentucky Derby (G1) after Funny Cide (2003). But there’s also a lot of Kentucky in this colt who was raised in the Bluegrass.
Audible...

Godolphin Racing’s Enticed worked five furlongs in 1:00.20 at Palm Meadows Thursday morning for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin as the pace of final works for the 144th Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) as well as for the 144th Longines...