Kentucky Derby News
May 4, 2017
Churchill Downs Stakes Recap: Buy Sell Hold Takes Kentucky Juvenile; Pleuven Prevails in Opening Verse
BUY SELL HOLD TAKES KENTUCKY JUVENILE; PLEUVEN (FR) PREVAILS IN OPENING VERSE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Thursday, May 4, 2017) – Kirk and Judy Robison’s Buy Sell Hold held off a late bid from Amberspatriot by a neck to win the 24th running of the $100,000...
May 3, 2017
Eighth Annual 'Taste of Derby' Brings Delicious Start to Derby Weekend
James Beard Award And Top Chef Winners Join Nationally Renowned Chefs For Evening Of Exquisite Cuisines Created By Nationally Renowned Chefs
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Wednesday, May 3, 2017 – Churchill Downs Racetrack announced today that the...
May 3, 2017
Observing Man o’ War centennial at Kentucky Derby 143
It’s a curious fact of American racing history that its greatest Thoroughbred legend, Man o’ War, didn’t contest the nation’s most celebrated race, the Kentucky Derby (G1). But in 2017, as we celebrate the centennial of Man o’...
May 3, 2017
Observing Man o’ War centennial at Kentucky Derby 143
It’s a curious fact of American racing history that its greatest Thoroughbred legend, Man o’ War, didn’t contest the nation’s most celebrated race, the Kentucky Derby (G1). But in 2017, as we celebrate the centennial of Man o’...
Features May 3, 2017
Tales from the Crib: Untrapped
Untrapped, a third-generation product of Indian Creek Farm, sports a fascinating pedigree pattern redolent of nearby Claiborne Farm, also in Kentucky’s famed Bourbon County.
The connection actually goes to the human side of Indian Creek too. The...
May 3, 2017
Champion Classic Empire is 4-1 Morning-Line Favorite for $2 Million Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Wednesday, May 3, 2017) – John Oxley’s Classic Empire, the unanimous Eclipse Award selection as champion 2-year-old of 2016 and a three-time Grade I winner, has been established as the 4-1 morning-line favorite in a field...
May 3, 2017
Kentucky Derby Update: Wed, May 3, 2017: Classic Empire Derby Favorite; Girvin Makes First Appearance
John Oxley’s Classic Empire was made the 4-1 morning-line favorite for Kentucky Derby 143 when post positions were drawn Wednesday morning in the Aristides Lounge at Churchill Downs.
Prior to the draw during morning training, Louisiana Derby (Grade...
May 3, 2017
Kentucky Derby Day Undercard Stakes Advances
Gunpowder Farms’ Divisidero will face 11 rivals Saturday as he bids to repeat in the $500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (Grade I), one of seven graded stakes on the 14-race program that is highlighted by the 143rd running of the $2 million Kentucky...
Features May 2, 2017
Tales from the Crib: Fast and Accurate
Fast and Accurate will try to become the third Pennsylvania-bred to wear the roses, after Lil E. Tee (1992) and Smarty Jones (2004). But although he was foaled in the Keystone State, the gray colt grew up in the Bluegrass, at his breeder John R. Penn’s...
Features May 2, 2017
Tales from the Crib: Lookin at Lee
As the grandson of a bargain $17,000 yearling purchase campaigned in the Pacific Northwest by Exclusive Stable and Ray Hanson, Lookin at Lee is a case study in how classy female lines can spring to life again.
At the 1995 Keeneland September Yearling...