Kentucky Derby News

Based in South Florida, Avery Island shipped north to open his 3-year-old season with a two-length victory in the February 3 Withers (G3) at Aqueduct. His last two starts – a Nashua (G3) win and Remsen (G2) second – came over the same grounds...

Audible was no longshot in the February 3 Holy Bull (G2) at Gulfstream Park, leaving the starting gate as the 3-1 third choice among nine runners, but nobody saw this performance coming.
Stepping up to make his first stakes appearance against a well-respected...

Fast rising stars McKinzie (#13), Audible (#1) and Mask (#12) join reigning 2-year-old champion Good Magic (#10) and the accomplished Bolt d’Oro (#3) atop the roster of individual betting interests in this week’s second pool of Churchill Downs’...

Road to the Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Avery Island
Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Racing has won many major races around the world, but the Kentucky Derby has eluded them.
This year, they will be hoping Avery Island can break the drought for them.
Avery...

Tampa Bay Downs’ $150,000 Suncoast Stakes joined the Road to the Kentucky Oaks series of points races this year, and Saturday’s contest attracted a field of eight to compete for a total of 17 points.
The mile-and-40-yard event will award 10-4-2-1...

Cosmic Burst puts her three-race win streak on the line Saturday as part of a six-filly field entered to go a mile in the $125,000 Martha Washington Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
The race is part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks series of points contests and...

Flattered last week by Avery Island's win in the Withers (G3), Catholic Boy will seek to climb farther up the Kentucky Derby (G1) leaderboard himself Saturday in the $250,000 Sam F. Davis (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs.
The 1 1/16-mile prep for the Tampa...

The winner of the first scoring race on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, Ruggero, has kept his possible dreams of Churchill Downs alive as one of three Japanese-based nominees to the 2018 Triple Crown.
Unfortunately, the same can’t be...

Prep race winners Avery Island, Audible, and Lombo all made noticeable gains on the Kentucky Derby (G1) leaderboard this past weekend, while Firenze Fire missed out on the chance to temporarily move into first place.
Avery Island (#7, 14 points), in...

Road to the Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Lombo
When Lombo went to the gate for the 1 1/16-mile Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3), he was seen mainly as a sprinter following three starts at 6 ½ furlongs or yet.
By the time he crossed the finish line,...