Kentucky Derby News

Cheyenne Stables LLC’s Mastery romped by 7 1/4 lengths on Saturday as the 1-5 favorite in the $300,000 CashCall Futurity (G1) at Los Alamitos.
By doing so, the dark bay son of Candy Ride made his debut on the Kentucky Derby Leaderboard in the fifth...

Yet another Kentucky Derby winner joined Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm’s band of pensioned stallions on Monday.
1999 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes hero Charismatic was paraded around a paddock at the Georgetown, Kentucky, facility...

There were a pair of Kentucky Oaks (G1) points races on offer Saturday and both contests saw the favorites run second to a pair of wire-to-wire winners.
At Churchill Downs, Coffeepot Stables’ homebred Farrell provided a 10-1 upset of the Golden...

With the Kentucky Derby still 23 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” closed as the 6-5 favorite in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Grade I) winner Classic Empire...

Mo Town picked up 10 points toward a possible berth in the 2017 Kentucky Derby with a convincing victory in Saturday’s $300,000 Remsen (G2) at Aqueduct, scoring by 2 ½ lengths in his stakes debut.
A 7-length maiden winner in his previous...

McCraken made it three-for-three over the Churchill Downs strip this year winning Saturday's $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (G2), stamping himself as a leading Kentucky Derby (G1) contender over the same track next May.
The off-the-pace, 1 1/4-length...

Mont Saint Legame, a son of 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) participant Came Home, became the first horse ever to earn Derby points in Japan when taking Saturday’s Cattleya Sho at Tokyo.
Sent off at 5-1 in the allowance over a metric mile, Mont Saint...

In addition to points scoring races for Kentucky Derby (G1) bound colts, Kentucky Oaks (G1) bound fillies will have a pair of points opportunities Saturday at Churchill Downs and Aqueduct. Both races will award Oaks qualifying points of 10-4-2-1 to their...

Overlooked at 12-1 in a smashing debut performance, Takaful is listed as the overwhelming 7-5 morning line favorite for his second career outing in Saturday’s $300,000 Remsen (G2) at Aqueduct. The 1 1/8-mile race is part of the “Road to the...

Unbeaten in a pair of starts, McCraken will seek to accumulate points toward a possible Kentucky Derby berth when he lines up for Saturday’s $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs. The Ian Wilkes-trained colt heads a field of 12 in...