Kentucky Derby News

The Road to the Kentucky Oaks continues on Saturday and Sunday with a pair of contests offering points toward a starting berth in the May 4 Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs.
First up on Saturday is the $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks, which is the first...

Saturday’s 105th running of the $1 million Louisiana Derby Presented by TwinSpires.com (Grade II) and Sunday’s 15th running of the $800,000 Sunland Derby (GIII) are the featured stops on this week’s Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship...

John C. Oxley’s Flameaway, the winner of Tampa Bay Downs’ Sam F. Davis (Grade III), leads a group of 10 3-year-old Thoroughbreds that were made eligible to compete in the 2018 Triple Crown with a late $6,000 payment that was due Monday.
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Magnum Moon (#5, 50) took another step toward the goal of becoming the first horse since Apollo in 1882 to win the Kentucky Derby (G1) without having raced as a juvenile last Saturday with an authoritative victory over Solomini (#9, 34) in the Rebel (G2)...

The Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) was run at Turfway Park on Saturday. Formerly sponsored by Jim Beam, Galleryfurniture.com, Lane's End, Vinery Stables, Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati and JACK Cincinnati Casino, the race formerly known as the Spiral Stakes...

1. Inaugurated in 1894, the Louisiana Derby was held at two other New Orleans locations — Crescent City Race Course and Jefferson Park — before settling at Fair Grounds in 1932. It has been held every year since except from 1940-42, 1945,...

Thunder Gulch, who captured the 1995 Kentucky Derby (G1) as a 24-1 longshot over two favored stablemates and later won the Belmont Stakes (G1) en route to champion three-year-old honors, has been euthanized at the age of 26.
Coolmore America, who stood...

A week after counterparts starred on the West Coast, Magnum Moon looked special trying a Kentucky Derby qualifier in Saturday’s $900,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park. The Todd Pletcher-trained colt registered his third straight convincing victory...

Hailing from the storied farm that’s produced the most Kentucky Derby (G1) winners, and trained by a Hall of Famer with four Derby trophies, Bravazo is heir to quite an historical legacy.
Calumet Farm stands alone in the Derby record book as the...

The next phase of the Road to the Kentucky Derby will begin in about a week, with races bumped from 85 to 170 total points each toward a starting berth in the May 5 Kentucky Derby (G1).
It didn’t used to be this way, though. The points system so...