Kentucky Derby News

Godolphin’s Thunder Snow (Ire), winner of the UAE 2000 Guineas (Group 3) at Dubai’s Meydan Racecourse on Feb. 11 and last fall’s Criterium International (G1) at France’s Saint-Cloud, heads a group of six 3-year-old Thoroughbreds...

Godolphin’s Thunder Snow, the smashing winner of the UAE 2000 Guineas (G3) at Meydan, hopes that a home court advantage helps him versus Japan’s unbeaten Epicharis in Saturday’s $2 million UAE Derby (G2). The 4TH race on the Dubai World...

Turfway Park plays host on Saturday to the $100,000 Bourbonette Oaks (G3), a one-mile contest offering 50-20-10-5 points to the respective top four toward a starting berth in the May 5 Kentucky Oaks (G1).
The race is the penultimate contest before the...

Owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey have won two of the last three runnings of the $500,000 Spiral (G3) at Turfway Park, and will seek to win their fourth overall with morning-line favorite Kitten's Cat when the 1 1/8-mile Kentucky Derby (G1) prep is renewed...

The victory by Malagacy (#4, 50 points) in last Saturday's Rebel (G2) at Oaklawn Park temporarily pushed stablemate One Liner (#21, 10) out of the Kentucky Derby (G1) Top 20, but with 100 points-to-the-winner preps on the horizon, trainer Todd Pletcher's...

Malagacy improved his record to 3-for-3 winning the March 18 Rebel (G2) at Oaklawn Park and likely guaranteed himself a berth in the Kentucky Derby field by earning 50 points in his first qualifying race.
Trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden by Javier...

Sumaya U.S. Stables’ Malagacy pulled off yet another victory on Saturday to move his record to a perfect three-for-three. This time the Todd Pletcher trainee was making his stakes debut in the $900,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) and triumphed by two lengths...

Two of California’s budding stars, American Anthem and Royal Mo, invade Hot Springs, Ark. for Saturday’s $900,000 Rebel Stakes (GII) at Oaklawn Park – the lone Championship Series race this weekend on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented...

Royal Mo has been a king-size beauty from the beginning.
The striking bay colt is one of two 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) contenders bred and raised by Jim and Pam Robinson’s Brandywine Farm, along with Gunnevera (see his “Tale from the Crib”...

Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher know something about shipping horses to Oaklawn Park for 3-year-old stakes and the top trainers will be looking to capture Saturday’s $900,000 Rebel (G2) with American Anthem and Malagacy, respectively. The promising...