Kentucky Derby News

The Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by TwinSpires.com features racing from around the world this weekend with plenty of points on the line for horses to be considered for the “Run for the Roses” on Saturday, May 6.
First up is Saturday’s...

Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Bob Baffert, D. Wayne Lukas, Doug O’Neill and Todd Pletcher have sent horses to New Mexico this weekend for Sunday’s $800,000 Sunland Derby (G3). A Kentucky Derby qualifier, 1 1/8-mile race offers points on...

Grade 1 heroine Noted and Quoted headlines a seven-filly field entered to go 1 1/16 miles on Sunday in the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks.
The race is part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks series of points races, and closes out the 50-20-10-5 portion of the...

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...