Kentucky Derby News

After a big weekend of prep races, we have a number of new names and faces shaking up the Road to the Derby leaderboard. Darren and KK breakdown the action from the Withers, Sam F. Davis and El Camino Real Derby on today’s show and what they saw...

You might say that champion filly Wonder Wheel got stuck in the snow, so to speak, in Saturday’s $150,000 Suncoast S., as she could not get past the unheralded Dreaming of Snow at Tampa Bay Downs. The 38-1 shot grabbed the early lead and refused...

Adam Ference and Bill Dory’s Chase the Chaos had been improving in every start at Golden Gate Fields, and the Ed Moger Jr. trainee continued his ascent in Saturday’s $101,350 El Camino Real Derby. Patiently handled by Armando Ayuso, the 4.20-1...

Litigate made his stakes debut a winning one in Sam F. Davis
(G3), rallying to a 1 1/4-length decision, and provided trainer Todd Pletcher with
a record seventh victory in the Road to
the Kentucky Derby series qualifier at Tampa Bay Downs.
Pletcher, who...

Hit Show resoundingly announced his presence on the Kentucky
Derby trail in Saturday’s $250,000
Withers (G3) at Aqueduct, rolling to a 5 1/2-length decision in his stakes
debut. The Brad Cox-trained colt garnered his first 20 points in the Road...

His mother was a top-class sprinter, but Dubyuhnell has already answered a distance question by capturing the 1 1/8-mile Remsen (G2). He inherits his stamina, and Kentucky Derby (G1) hopes, from sire Good Magic.

Here are 12 pedigree fun facts on Dubyuhnell:
1....

A record three dozen Japanese-based horses have been nominated to the 2023 Triple Crown, including the top two on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard at this stage, Derma Sotogake and Continuar.

Continuar won the Japan Road opener, the Nov....

There is a Trifecta of prep races this weekend across the country with the Withers, Sam F. Davis Stakes, and El Camino Real Derby. On today’s show Darren and KK are joined by Churchill Downs track announcer Travis Stone to preview the stakes races...

The Road to the Kentucky Derby series stops at Golden Gate
Fields for Saturday’s $100,000 El Camino Real Derby. Contested over 1 1/8 miles
on a Tapeta track, the El Camino Real Derby offers qualifying points on a
10-4-3-2-1 basis to the top five...

The second of four Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifiers at
Aqueduct this year, the Withers
(G3) was rescheduled to Feb. 11 after being postponed due to adverse
weather conditions a week earlier. Seven three-year-olds will contest the 1
1/8-mile race, which...