Kentucky Derby News

An
excellent field of a dozen three-year-olds will travel 1 3/16 miles on the Fair
Grounds dirt oval in Saturday’s lucrative $1 million Louisiana Derby (G2). The
2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series contest will reward the
top-five finishers...

When young horseman Chad Brown was working for the late Hall of Famer Bobby Frankel at old Hollywood Park, one of the horses in his care was a filly named Dash for Money. In that spring of 2003, few could have imagined that their connection would eventually...

Saturday’s bonanza of Kentucky Derby (G1) preps spans the globe, including Dubai, where an eclectic cast from all over the world competes in the $1 million UAE Derby (G2) at Meydan. The Doug O’Neill-trained duo of Tall Boy and Ah Jeez...

If Instant Coffee is the most accomplished runner in next Saturday’s $1 million Louisiana Derby (G2) at Fair Grounds, unbeaten Kingsbarns brings loads of potential into his first Road to the Kentucky Derby test. 
The Louisiana Derby is one...

The improving Pretty Mischievous floored odds-on favorite Hoosier Philly in the Feb. 18 Rachel Alexandra (G2), and Saturday’s $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2) will serve up a rematch at the same historic venue. 
The clash of heavyweights fittingly...

In June 2018, Justify celebrated a win in the Belmont S. (G1). By
September, unraced since the Belmont, he had retired to stud as the only Triple
Crown winner to end his career undefeated.

The only other horse to secure the Triple Crown while unbeaten
was...

The 1953 Kentucky Derby produced one of the greatest upsets in history, as Sagamore Farm’s legendary Native Dancer suffered his only loss, by a head to Dark Star. Seventy years later, another colt with a Sagamore connection will try to earn the...

Middleham Park Racing’s Brave Emperor lived up to his name in Wednesday’s Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions race at Kempton. His gutsy victory in a three-way tussle was worth 20 points on the European Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard,...

A Road to the Kentucky Derby series qualifier, the Tampa Bay
Derby (G3) on March 11 awarded points on a 50-20-15-10-5 basis to the top five
finishers, and a new face emerged on the Kentucky Derby
leaderboard with the win.
1. Tapit
Trice last to first
Tapit...

Whisper Hill Farm and Gainesway Stable’s Tapit Trice earned 50 points on the 2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series leaderboard following his two-length victory in the
$360,000
Tampa Bay Derby (G3) on March 11. The winner clocked 1 1/16...