Kentucky Derby News

With the political parties’ presidential primaries dominating the news cycle, and with the Kentucky Derby (G1) prep season now heating up, it’s easy to track their similarities.
Before you jump to point out the differences, I’ll offer...

The connections of unbeaten champion and 2016 Kentucky Derby (G1) points leader Nyquist have another contender on their hands – Frank Conversation, who got on the scoreboard by capturing Saturday’s $200,840 El Camino Real Derby (G3) at Golden...

Collected and Discreetness bring top credentials into Monday’s Southwest (G3) at Oaklawn Park, with the former winning the January 9 Sham (G3) at Santa Anita and the latter capturing the January 18 Smarty Jones at Oaklawn, and the 3-year-olds will...

Undefeated juvenile colt champion Nyquist embarks on his personal road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) Monday at Santa Anita when he heads a field of six for the $200,000 San Vicente (G2) going seven furlongs.
The San Vicente, last won by an eventual Derby...

Saturday’s $200,000 El Camino Real Derby (G3) is the next-to-last prep in the Road to the Kentucky Derby series, offering points on a 10-4-2-1 scale to the top four finishers. Held over the synthetic Tapeta track at Golden Gate Fields in Northern...

A pair of unbeaten 3-year-old Thoroughbreds – Shadwell Stable’s Mohaymen (#15) and Reddam Racing LLC’s champion Nyquist (#17) are rated as the top individual horses, but the ever-popular “All Others” (#24) wager is the odds-on...

Fox Hill Farms’ Songbird made her three-year-old bow on Saturday at Santa Anita Park in the $300,345 Las Virgenes S. (G2), and the dark bay miss proved once again why she ranks first on the Kentucky Oaks (G1) leaderboard by a wide margin.
The daughter...

Michael Lund Peterson’s Mor Spirit edged past a pair of rivals in midstretch and won going away by 1 ½ lengths in Saturday’s $150,345 Robert B. Lewis (G3) at Santa Anita, confirming himself as a top Kentucky Derby contender on the West...

Nickname captured last year’s Frizette S. (G1) and concluded her juvenile season with a fourth-place run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).
That was more than enough for the Scat Daddy filly to be sent off the 1-2 favorite in her...

Mor Spirit brings lofty expectations into his 3-year-old bow, Saturday’s $150,000 Robert B. Lewis (G3) at Santa Anita. The Grade 1 winner is a leading West Coast prospect for four-time Kentucky Derby winner Bob Baffert, trainer of 2015...