Kentucky Derby News

After initially planning to skip Saturday’s $300,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct, trainer Cathal Lynch called an audible and decided to run El Areeb. The gray colt is already well-positioned for the Kentucky Derby (G1), picking up a combined 20 points...

As expected, the first 'Championship Season' prep of the Road to the Kentucky Derby Series shook up the leader board last Saturday, an easy thing to do with 50 qualifying points awarded to the winner and 20 to the runner-up.
Girvin, making...

Girvin advanced to the lead in midstretch and edged away to a two-length decision in the February 25 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds, capturing the first of 16 races in the Championship segment of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series.
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Practical Joke, who was the only horse of his generation besides champion Classic Empire to be a dual Grade 1 winner at two, kicks off what is expected to be a two-prep campaign for the Kentucky Derby (G1) in Saturday's $400,000 Fountain of Youth...

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After more than two days of wagering during which it ranked as low as the fifth choice of bettors across North America, the always-popular “All Others” (#24) wagering interest closed strongly on Sunday’s final day of wagering to emerge...

Don Alberto Stable’s Unique Bella (#22), a rapidly rising star whose three-race winning streak includes dominant victories in a pair of important stakes races, was the overwhelming even-money favorite to win the $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks...

Don Alberto Stable’s Unique Bella, a dazzling daughter of Tapit with a pair of dominant graded stakes triumphs on her growing résumé for Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, is the headliner on a roster of 109 3-year-old fillies...

It's never a bad thing to have backup going into the Kentucky Derby (G1). Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., the regular rider of the undefeated Derby candidate McCraken, now has some after guiding Girvin to an 8-1 upset in Saturday's $400,000 Risen...

El Areeb was bred by William Shively’s Dixiana Farms, a name steeped in Bluegrass history.
Dixiana traces to 1877, when Maj. Barak Thomas acquired the property and rechristened it after his successful broodmare Dixie. As fine a matron as Dixie...