Kentucky Derby News

Shippers Giant Mischief and Echo Again were the focus of attention going into Saturday night’s $400,000 Remington Springboard Mile, but locally-based Wildatlanticstorm stole the spotlight on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. Overlooked at 15-1, Jim...

After winning the inaugural Untapable S. at Fair Grounds last year, trainer Brendan Walsh could make it two straight in Monday’s $100,000 renewal of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks scoring race. His filly, Pretty Mischievous, brings graded form to...

Practical Move rallied boldly along the inside to seize the lead in upper
stretch and drew away to a 3 1/4-length victory in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), springing a 10.60-1 upset to join the Kentucky Derby picture. Ramon
Vasquez was up on...

Monday marks the beginning of the Fair Grounds Road to the Kentucky Derby, the $100,000 Gun Runner S. Last year’s inaugural running launched Epicenter to the forefront, while the fifth-placer was an unheralded longshot named Rich Strike. They would...

Prominent winners include 1998 Kentucky Derby hero Real
Quiet and leading sire Into Mischief, and Saturday’s $200,000 Los Alamitos
Futurity (G2) serves as a Road to the Kentucky Derby series qualifier.
Five juveniles were entered, but Grade 3-placed...

Eclipse Award-winning trainers Steve Asmussen and Brad Cox
will be well-represented in Saturday night’s $400,000 Remington Springboard
Mile. Asmussen will send out 9-5 morning line favorite Echo Again, and Cox has 3-1 second choice Giant Mischief.
Nine...

Happy Holidays from Inside the Kentucky Derby! On today’s show Darren and KK get into the holiday spirit for the last show of 2022 by previewing a few of the upcoming prep races including the Los Alamitos Futurity, Springboard Mile and Gun Runner....

Derma
Sotogake pushed himself to the top of the Japan Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby
table with a narrow victory in the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at Kawasaki.
Settling
about four lengths from the early speed in the about one-mile contest, Derma
Sotogake...

The Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby continues on Wednesday with the 73rd running of the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at Kawasaki. As the second of four scoring races in Japan, it’s worth points on a 20-8-6-4-2 scale to the respective top five finishers.
A...

Faiza remained unbeaten in Saturday’s $300,500 Starlet (G1)
at Los Alamitos, prevailing by a head over Pride of the Nile.
The two-year-old filly feature offered points on a
10-4-3-2-1 scale as a Road to the Kentucky Oaks series qualifier, but Faiza...