Kentucky Derby News

One year after Triple Crown champion American Pharoah was upset in the Travers (G1), Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert returned to Saratoga on Saturday and conquered the “Midsummer Derby” – with a secret weapon named Arrogate.
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This week’s juvenile filly review is headlined by a pair of stakes winners in MISS SUNSET and HALONA. While the former earned her black-type credit at Del Mar, Halona got hers at Belterra Park.
Miss Sunset hooked up with I’ll Be Around from...

Winner of the Preakness (G1) and runner-up in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Exaggerator can lay a strong claim to divisional 3-year-old male honors with a victory in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers (G1) at Saratoga.
Known as the “Midsummer Derby,”...

The criteria is getting a bit more stringent to make this juvenile filly review, what with stakes now going for the two-year-old lasses, but there are still plenty of runners from all over the country who are impressing.
Case in point, one wouldn’t...

California Chrome, the 2014 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner and Horse of the Year, transformed Saturday’s $1,001,380 Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar from a showdown into a one-horse race. By demolishing a field including three-time Eclipse Award champion...

Around this time last August, Nyquist dominated the Best Pal (G2) at Del Mar, and Exaggerator bulled through to take the Saratoga Special (G2). Few of us would have realized it back then, but we’d just seen the future top two finishers in the 2016...

The juvenile filly review was forced to take a brief hiatus, thanks to the Haskell and Whitney Handicap weekends, but it’s back in business this week and there’s one name that stands out – AMERICAN CLEOPATRA.
Being a full sister to a...

Saturday marks the graded stakes debuts of Ever So Clever and Thirstforlife, a pair of impressive 2-year-old maiden winners at Churchill Downs. Ever So Clever is among six runners in the $200,000 Adirondack (G2) at Saratoga and Thirstforlife faces five...

Sunday’s $1,015,000 Haskell Invitational (G1) shaped up as a rematch of the top three from the Kentucky Derby (G1) – Nyquist, Exaggerator, and Gun Runner. But after the rains poured down and Monmouth turned into a sea of slop, it became...

Winner of the Kentucky Derby (G1), Florida Derby (G1) and San Vicente (G2) earlier this year, Nyquist enters the second half of the season as the leader in the 3-year-old division. But it’s a tenuous advantage following a third-place effort in the...