Kentucky Derby News

The third of four qualifiers at Aqueduct this year, the March 2 Gotham (G3) offered points on a 50-25-15-10-5 scale and here are three takeaways from the one-turn mile event.

Ken Langone, Stephen Dunker, Vicarage Stable, and St Elias Stable’s Deterministic earned 50 qualifying points on the 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby following his impressive, two-length tally in the $300,000 Gotham S. (G3) at Aqueduct on March 2

The Godolphin homebred Encino earned 20 points on the 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series leaderboard, following his one-length victory in the $142,500 John Battaglia Memorial S. at Turfway Park on March 2.

The John Battaglia Memorial S. on March 2 served as the first of two Road to the Kentucky Derby series qualifiers on Turfway Park’s Tapeta and here are three takeaways;

Dornoch, became the big winner of the weekend with a victory in the Fountain of Youth moving him up to second on the leaderboard.

Godolphin’s Encino stamped himself a contender on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in the John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park.

A game nose victor over Sierra Leone in December’s Remsen (G2), Dornoch stretched his win streak to three while opening his three-year-old season in Saturday’s $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream Park. The race did lose a pair of key contenders...

Deterministic's Gotham (G3) victory puts Christophe Clement on the Derby trail, and Santa Anita switched the San Felipe (G2) to Sunday.

Just F Y I was scratched from her intended comeback in the Davona Dale (G2), but Jody’s Pride returned to win the Busher S.

If champion Fierceness can fulfill owner Mike Repole’s quest for the Kentucky Derby (G1), his victory would carry special meaning as a homebred.