Kentucky Derby News

The Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby concludes with Saturday’s Fukuryu S. at Nakayama, where the winner’s prize of 40 points would top the leaderboard. A new leader will be crowned, since the heroes of the first three Japanese scoring races...

After a week off from stakes races, things heat up this weekend with major races taking place around the globe. On today’s show Darren and KK preview the Louisiana Derby, Jeff Ruby Stakes, Sunland Derby as well as UAE Derby and Fukuryu taking place...

Spendthrift Farm’s multiple graded stakes-winning three-year-old
Major Dude headlines a talented
field of 12 colts and geldings entered in Saturday’s
52nd running of the $700,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway Park.
The Jeff Ruby Steaks,...

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...