Kentucky Derby News

With rain expected to start late Friday night and continue into Saturday, the rush to get in final breezes for the 142nd Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) on a fast track shifted to tomorrow with eight horses scheduled to breeze with the...

Trojan Nation, a homebred racing for Dr. Aaron Sones and Julie Gilbert, was born and raised at Winchester Farm near Lexington, Kentucky.
A near-upsetter of the Wood Memorial (G1) as an 81-1 maiden, Trojan Nation is no longshot in the pedigree department....

Outwork was the first winner for his sire, champion Uncle Mo – a fitting distinction on two counts. He is a homebred for Mike Repole, who also campaigned Uncle Mo as well as Outwork’s dam, Nonna Mia. And besides, Outwork has always liked being...

Mor Spirit, runner-up to Exaggerator in the April 9 Santa Anita Derby (GI) last time out, put in his first breeze over the Churchill Downs main track for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) on Tuesday morning during Churchill Downs’...

The Kentucky Derby (G1) celebrates its 142nd running on May 7 at Churchill Downs, but how is the 20-strong field assembled? Who makes the decision on which horses gets in and which horses are left out of the starting gate on the first Saturday in May?
Once...

Koji Maeda’s Lani, winner of the UAE Derby (Group II) in his most recent start, worked three furlongs in :37.40 with blinkers on over a track labeled fast during the 8:30-8:45 a.m. training period reserved for Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks contenders.
With...

Lani brings international glamor into the 2016 Kentucky Derby (G1), as the Japanese-based winner of the UAE Derby (G2) on Dubai World Cup night. But in fact, he’s a Kentucky-born lad with Derby heroes prominent in his pedigree.
By North America’s...

Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) contenders Creator and Gun Runner’s Monday morning breezes were “ideal” according to trainer Steve Asmussen, who sent both horses out for serious workouts during Churchill Downs’...

It was a busy Monday for trainer Steve Asmussen, who sent a pair of Kentucky Derby hopes to the Churchill Downs track for Monday works and new fewer than five Longines Kentucky Oaks candidates were on the Churchill Downs racing surface for important breezes. 
Breezing...

The Chad Brown-trained duo of My Man Sam and Shagaf recorded their first serious preparations for the May 7 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I). 
My Man Sam, a late-closing second in the April 9 Toyota Blue Grass (GI) behind Brody’s...