Kentucky Derby News

Saturday’s $1 million Rebel (G2) at Oaklawn Park has drawn a field of 11, and there’s no shortage of early speed in the 1 1/16-mile affair. The final local prep for the Arkansas Derby (G1), the Rebel is worth points toward the Kentucky Derby...

Angel of Empire is new points leader on the Road to the Derby with a win at Fair Grounds. Darren and KK breakdown the action from the Risen Star on today’s show and what they saw from contenders in this past weekend’s prep races. This weekend...

Pretty Mischievous was beaten more than five lengths by Hoosier Philly
when the three-year-old fillies first met in the Golden Rod (G2) at Churchill
Downs in November. On Saturday, in the $291,000 Rachel Alexandra (G2) at Fair
Grounds, Pretty Mischievous...

Yuji Hasegawa’s Perriere stamped his authority as the favorite in Sunday’s Hyacinth S. at Tokyo. Rolling late over the metric mile, the Triple Crown nominee earned 30 points to become the new leader on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby.
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Angel of Empire stepped up for trainer Brad Cox in Saturday’s
$400,000 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds, rallying fastest of all to win by a
length. Runner-up in his stakes debut, the Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park on New Year’s Day, Albaugh
Family...

Friday’s $150,000 UAE Oaks (G3) turned into a match race between Dubai’s top filly Mimi Kakushi and Doug O’Neill shipper Ami Please. As they battled down the lane at Meydan, Mimi Kakushi kept finding more to outlast Ami Please and earn...

The Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby continues in Sunday’s Hyacinth S. at Tokyo, where Triple Crown nominees comprise nearly half of the 14-horse field. With an increased points structure of 30-12-9-6-3 to the top five, the Hyacinth will remake...

Fifty years after Virginia-bred Secretariat took the Triple Crown by storm, a champion colt with deep connections to the Old Dominion is the early favorite for the 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1). Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) hero Forte is a Kentucky-bred...

A full field of 14 three-year-olds will travel 1 1/8 miles on the Fair Grounds dirt in Saturday’s $400,000 Risen Star S. (G2). The 2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series contest will reward the top five finishers with qualifying points...

The Kentucky Oaks (G1) trail makes a stop in Dubai on Friday for the $150,000 UAE Oaks (G3), the first scoring race offering 50 points to the winner. Two-time Kentucky Derby (G1)-winning trainer Doug O’Neill has sent Ami Please as part of his Dubai...