Kentucky Derby News

Right after Godolphin made him a late nomination to the Triple Crown, Thunder Snow proved the wisdom of that decision by denying Japan’s Epicharis in a thrilling conclusion to Saturday’s $2 million UAE Derby (G2).
Thunder Snow, who was making...

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土曜日に行われるＧ２ＵＡＥダービー（Ｇ２，ダート、メイダン競馬場）に出走を予定しているエピカリス号。その最大のライバルと言われるのが、ゴドルフィンのサンダースノー号です。今年のＵＡＥ２０００ギニーで、自身初となるダートを克服し完勝したことで、メイダン競馬場の馬場適性を示しました。ＵＡＥダービー勝ち馬には、米国のケンタッキーダービーの出走馬選定ポイントとなる100ポイントが付与され、ケンタッキーダービーへの優先出走権が与えられます。
過去７度、ＵＡＥダービーを制しているサンダースノー号を管理するサイード・ビン・スルール師は、
「１９００ｍという距離は、この馬にとって初めてですが、サンダースノーは大変能力の高い馬です。距離延長を克服すれば大きなチャンスがあると思います。」とスルール調教師は話しています。
Ｇ１クリテイルムアンシテルナシオナル（芝１４００ｍ）を５馬身差で快勝したサンダースノー号は、アメリカ三冠競走への予備登録を行った１月の段階で、ダート未出走でした。２月にメイダン競馬場で行われたＵＡＥ２０００ギニーに初ダートながら、5¾...

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...