Kentucky Derby News

Road to the Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Vino Rosso
VINO ROSSO won a maiden at Aqueduct and an allowance race at Tampa Bay Downs last year and gave the impression that he would get better as his career progressed. He was favored both times, so internal...

Road to the Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Good Magic
Chad Brown has trained a ton of turf superstars but that has typecast him as a “turf” trainer. In the past few years, his clients have been buying more horses with dirt pedigrees and Brown...

Road to the Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Justify
Bob Baffert was joking about needing to get starts into some of his unraced two-year-olds before the end of the year. It turns out, he wasn’t joking.
Knowing that every Kentucky Derby (G1) winner...

Risen Star (Grade II) winner Bravazo began his serious preparations for the Grade I, $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on Friday morning when he breezed five furlongs in 1:01.20 at Churchill Downs.
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Magnum Moon stepped into the Kentucky Derby spotlight with a convincing victory in the Rebel Stakes (G2), remaining unbeaten with a three-length decision, and the Todd Pletcher-trained colt has returned to Oaklawn Park as the horse to beat in Saturday’s...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 12, 2018 – Churchill Downs Racetrack today announced that multi-platinum, Grammy® Award-winning A Cappella group Pentatonix will sing the national anthem at the 144th Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on Saturday,...

Note: Please open the attached pdf document or paste the following in your browser for additional information: https://bit.ly/2IPholR The Road to the Kentucky Derby will conclude Saturday as the final two races in the 35-race series – the $1 million...

A field of eight has been entered in Friday’s $400,000 Fantasy Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park.
The 1 1/16-mile event wraps up the 2017-18 Road to the Kentucky Oaks series of races. As part of the Championship portion of that series, the contest will...

Some horses just have “it,” that indefinable air of supremacy, from day one. Given what unbeaten Justify has accomplished on the track in the span of about seven weeks – going from unraced three-year-old to Kentucky Derby (G1) favorite...

TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (Grade II) runner-up Lone Sailor returned to the work tab Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs with a half-mile breeze in :47.60, his first major tune-up in preparation for the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford...