Kentucky Derby News

After a weekend full of great stakes races, Forte stands above the pack as he reclaimed the top spot on the Road to the Derby leaderboard with a win at Gulfstream Park. Darren and KK breakdown the action from the Fountain of Youth, Gotham, San Felipe,...

Blame has attracted attention on the 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) trail as the maternal grandfather of champion Forte, but he has a son of his own in contention – Litigate.
Litigate’s ancestry is replete with stallions who excelled over classic...

Raise Cain came
flying after being forced to check at the conclusion of the far turn in Saturday’s
$300,000 Gotham (G3), angling wide and inhaling rivals to win by 7 1/2 lengths
over a muddy Aqueduct track. The three-year-old colt was overlooked...

Practical Move parlayed a ground-saving trip into victory Saturday in
the $400,000 San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita, a Road to the
Kentucky Derby series
prep contested over 1 1/16 miles.
Racing in a pocket behind pacesetter Hejazi much of the way, Practical...

Unraced since his Eclipse Award-clinching victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), Forte flaunted his status as a champion – and the early Kentucky Derby (G1) favorite – in Saturday’s $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2). The 1-2...

One day after his daughter Dorth Vader upset the Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream Park, hot young sire Girvin furnished a more formful winner in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Ysabel (G3) at Santa Anita – 4-5 favorite Faiza, who kept her perfect record...

Florence, Ky. (Saturday, March 4, 2023) – One year ago, Kentucky Derby 148 hero Rich Strike came through Turfway Park before he qualified for the “Run for the Roses.” Now, his winning rider Sonny Leon could have himself another mount...

Upsets were the order of the day in both of Saturday’s Road to the Kentucky Oaks events worth 50 points to the winner. After Shidabhuti posted a mild upset of the $200,000 Busher S. at Aqueduct, Dorth Vader sprang a 46-1 shock in the $200,000...

Odds-on favorite Cairo captured Friday’s Patton S. at Dundalk and jumped to the top of the European Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard. But the Aidan O’Brien trainee will look to earn his way to Churchill Downs another way, via the Mar....

Tiz the Bomb winning the 2022 John Battaglia Memorial S. at Turfway Park (Photo by Coady Photography/Turfway Park) 
By J. Keeler Johnson 

The $150,000 John Battaglia Memorial S. at Turfway Park hasn't been a Road to the Kentucky Derby...