Kentucky Derby News

Lucky Seven Stable’s Smile Happy ranks 10th on the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series leaderboard with 70 qualifying points. Trained by Kenny McPeek, the classy sophomore was last seen finishing a clear second in the Bluegrass S. (G2)...

Whisper Hill Farm homebred Charge It sits in 19th place on the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series leaderboard with 40 qualifying
points. The Todd Pletcher pupil earned his berth into the Run for the
Roses at Churchill Downs on May 7 by coming...

Messier’s very name proclaims his Canadian identity, as a tribute to the retired National Hockey League great Mark Messier. But the colt’s heritage runs much deeper, through a half-century of history at Sam-Son Farm. An icon of Canadian racing...

Sumaya U.S. Stables’ Pioneer of Medina, third-place finisher in the Louisiana Derby (GII) in his most recent start, tuned up for a possible start in Kentucky Derby 148 by working five furlongs in company in :59.80 over a fast track on...

Tiz the Bomb has established his class on turf and the all-weather Tapeta surface, as you might expect for a son of 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) hero Hit It a Bomb. Although his dam was also primarily a turf performer, her Hall of Fame...

Derby season is here and Churchill Downs was bustling with
excitement Friday morning as 10 Derby and Oaks contenders logged their
penultimate work prior to the first weekend in May. Half of those workers were
from Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher’s...

Former leading jockey Rosie Napravnik , a two-time winner of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade I), along with the voice of the Kentucky Derby, Travis Stone, will be the featured analysts on the Kentucky Derby Morning Works presented by TwinSpires.com...

You might say that Uncle Mo has “big mo” as a sire in recent weeks. In addition to Mo Donegal’s confirming his status as a major Kentucky Derby (G1) contender in the Wood Memorial (G2), brilliant turf sprinter Golden Pal dominated his...

Taiba will bid to defy nearly 140 years of Kentucky Derby (G1) history. Not since Leonatus, all the way back in 1883, has a colt won the Churchill Downs classic in just his third career start. 

Yet if any sophomore can blithely shred that stat,...

Peachtree Stable’s Tawny Port entered Saturday’s $400,000 Lexington S. (G3) at Keeneland inside the Kentucky Derby bubble following a runner-up effort in the April 2 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway. The Brad
Cox-trained colt closed determinedly...