Kentucky Derby News

5 Fast Facts about the Remington Springboard Mile, a new Road to the Kentucky Derby prep-race

First staged in 1999, the $400,000 Springboard Mile is the most important 2-year-old race at Remington Park, Oklahoma City. It is one of five stakes races on...

Road to the Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: McKinzie
In 2010, a bad draw and a tough trip prevented Lookin At Lucky from doing better than sixth in the Kentucky Derby for his owners Karl Watson, Mike Pegram, and Paul Weitman.
In 2018, McKinzie could well...

Exciting prospect Le Vent Se Leve kept the buzz going in Wednesday’s Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at Kawasaki, readily justifying favoritism to stay perfect in three starts. The Kiyoshi Hagiwara trainee banked 10 points on the Japan Road to the Kentucky...

Solomini proved to be the best horse in the December 9 Los Alamitos Futurity (G1), edging away late by nearly a length in the Kentucky Derby prep race, but did not maintain a straight path in the stretch as he drifted in and repeatedly bumped Instilled...

The new addition to the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, Wednesday’s Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at Kawasaki, rates as the nation’s top race for two-year-olds on dirt. Held over a metric mile (1600 meters), it features arguably Japan’s...

The Bob Baffert-trained Dream Tree joined the Road to the 2018 Kentucky Oaks on Saturday when pulling off for an easy victory in the Starlet Stakes (G1) at Los Alamitos to remain unbeaten in three career starts.
The race was the final points contest of...

Phoenix Thoroughbred III's Dream Tree bided her time in second under jockey Drayden Van Dyke before asserting her class to post a 3 1/4-length victory in Saturday's $294,000 Starlet Stakes (G1) at Los Alamitos.
The Uncle Mo filly tracked pacesetter...

The first disqualification from first in the 37-year history of the Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) occurred Saturday, but Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert still came out a winner for the 10th time in the 1 1/16-mile, $300,000 race as odds-on favorite McKinzie...

5 Fast Facts about the Los Alamitos Futurity, a Road to the Kentucky Derby prep-race

Run for the first time in 1981, the race began its life as the Hollywood Futurity and was run at Hollywood Park over 1 1/16 miles for all but six editions in the late...

The 2018 European Road to the Kentucky Derby, so far…
Japan may have its own qualifying series for the Kentucky Derby, but a Japanese-bred horse has been the leading performer in the inaugural qualifying series in Europe.
Seven races make up the...