Kentucky Derby News

Last year’s champion two-year-old male, Forte, set himself up for a tilt at the Aug. 26 Travers (G1) with a determined victory in Saturday’s $485,000 Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga. Adding blinkers after his runner-up effort in the Belmont (G1),...

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total of 10 sophomore fillies will travel 1 1/16 miles on the main oval in
Saturday’s $250,000 Monmouth Oaks (G3). The well-matched field is a very good
betting endeavor with numerous win threats in the field, and I will side with
Seduction to...

The theme of the 2023 Triple Crown – fresh faces stepping up on the big stage – continued into the first major race in the second half of the season, Saturday’s $1,017,500 Haskell (G1) at Monmouth Park. 
Pin Oak Stud’s Geaux...

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fantastic field of eight three-year-olds will travel nine furlongs on the
Monmouth Park dirt in Saturday’s $1 million Haskell S. (G1).
The highlight of
the local summer meeting attracted a standout group of sophomores led by
Kentucky Derby (G1)...

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competitive field of 11 three-year-old fillies will go postward in the $100,000
Pea Patch S. at Ellis Park on Sunday. Lael Stables’ homebred Daring Do will make her local bow for
conditioner Wesley Ward, and I am expecting a big effort from the...

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total of seven three-year-olds will speed 5 1/2 furlongs on the Ellis Park lawn
in Saturday’s $100,000 Dade Park Dash S. The event features just one prior
winner on the green, as the cast holds a combined 2-for-13 mark on the sod
collectively.

The
Fausto...

A strong field of eight will go 1 1/8 miles on the Ellis Park dirt surface in Saturday’s $1 million Stephen Foster S. (G1). Conditioner Kenny McPeek holds a strong hand in the race with a pair of in-form stars, including the impressive Alysheba...

An excellent field of six fillies and mares will run seven panels on the Ellis Park dirt in Saturday’s $225,000 Chicago S. (G3). A trio of graded stakes heroines, two of which have made good at the Grade 1 level, will lead the six-pack postward...

A total of six sophomore fillies will travel one mile on the Ellis Park
main surface in Saturday’s $175,000 Monomoy Girl S. The Brad Cox-trained
Wet Paint was last seen finishing a solid fourth in the recent Kentucky Oaks (G1) when sent postward...

Thirty years after Hall of Fame jockey Julie Krone became the first and thus
far only female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when guiding Colonial Affair
in the 1993
Belmont S. (G1), the 'Test of the Champion' yielded another first when...