Kentucky Derby News

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...

Saturday’s $200,000 San Diego H. (G2) at Del Mar pitted 2014 Kentucky Derby (G1) hero California Chrome against Dortmund, who was third to American Pharoah in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. The elder “Chrome” was favored at odds of 4-5, with...

New York's first graded stakes of the season for juvenile males, Saturday's $150,000 Sanford (G3) at Saratoga, fell to Bitumen, who fans at Churchill Downs have reason to remember as a good-looking, 6 3/4-length debut winner June 30.
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Perhaps the most exciting two-year-old filly to run last week is LULL, trained by Christophe Clement for owners/breeders Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider. The bay lass by War Front romped in her debut at Belmont Park on Saturday, July 16, leading...

Kentucky Derby (G1) champion Nyquist, last seen finishing third in the Preakness (G1), is gearing up for a return to action in Monmouth Park’s $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) on July 31. The 1 1/8-mile test is expected to attract fellow Derby...

California Diamond rallied to edge more fancied rivals on Santa Anita’s closing weekend, scoring by three-quarters of a length in the $125,000 Santa Anita Juvenile on July 9. Overlooked as the 6-1 fifth choice among six contestants, the California-bred...

A pair of stakes last Saturday showcased a couple of nice two-year-old fillies, so that’s where this week’s juvenile filly report begins.
Santa Anita Park’s Landaluce Stakes has proven a good spot to test the young lasses, and THEONEWEWAITEDFOR...

Seven-time Eclipse Award winner Todd Pletcher will wait until the upcoming Saratoga meet to unveil a large contingent of 2-year-olds, but the 2009 Kentucky Derby-winning trainer has already sent out some promising youngsters on the East Coast.
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The Bashford Manor (G3) for 2-year-olds was part of Churchill Downs’ closing day last Saturday and my colleague Kellie Reilly has already highlighted the winner, Classic Empire, in a recent piece on sire Pioneerofthenile, who is best known for producing...