Kentucky Derby News

It was on one of those fun-filled road trips to tracks like Mountaineer, Turfway Park, Ellis Park, and Indiana Downs more than a decade ago that trainer Eric Reed first extended an open invitation to Dr. Ben Lyon, a client who was rapidly becoming a close...

Twilight Gleaming winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) at Del Mar (Photo by Horsephotos.com)

A dozen three-year-old fillies will square in Saturday's $160,000 Mamzelle S. at Churchill Downs, a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint potentially...

Sophomore fillies will travel five grassy panels on the Churchill Downs turf in Saturday’s $160,000 Mamzelle S. The dash attracted a sizable field of 12, but the affair will go through Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) heroine Twilight...

Saturday’s 148th running of the $3 million Kentucky Derby
(G1) proved to be a stunner. Let’s examine three takeaways.
Something
to see but impossible to envision
Overlooked as the 80-1 longest shot among 20 runners, Rich Strike closed quickly...

With his dramatic late surge to upset the Kentucky Derby (G1) at 80-1, Rich Strike evoked memories of his sire, Keen Ice, who ran down Triple Crown star American Pharoah in the 2015 Travers (G1). 
Rich Strike’s dam, Gold Strike, was accomplished...

Eric Reed, trainer of Rich Strike (First) – “He passed them all. I’m elated. I’m happy because this horse trained good enough to win. This rider (Sonny Leon) has been on him all along as he learned the process. He taught him...

Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI”) (Nasdaq: CHDN) announced today that an exuberant crowd of 147,294 Derby fans at Churchill Downs Racetrack (“Churchill Downs”) witnessed the second-biggest long shot ever to win the Kentucky...

Rich Strike, owned by Richard Dawson’s RED TR-Racing, pulled off the second biggest upset in the history of the Run for the Roses by rallying along the inside to catch favored Epicenter in deep stretch to win the 148th running of the $3...

Sonny Leon, jockey of Rich Strike (First) – “You know we had a difficult post but I know the horse. I didn’t know if he could win but I had a good feeling with him. I had to wait until the stretch and that’s what I did. I...

Three Diamonds Farm and Deuce Greathouse’s Stolen Base regained the lead from Balnikhov (IRE) at the sixteenth pole and went on to a 1 ¼-length victory in the 31st running of the $500,000 American Turf (GII)...