Kentucky Derby News

Barray and Joni
Butzow’s Zozos returned to the work tab for the first time since his
runner-up effort behind Epicenter in the $1 million TwinSpires.com
Louisiana Derby (Grade II) on March 26 with an easy half-mile move in :48 early
Friday morning...

Foaled just steps away from where 2006 Kentucky Derby (G1) star Barbaro was born, Smile Happy hopes to add to the legacy of his Nicholasville, Kentucky, birthplace on the first Saturday in May. 
Smile Happy was bred in partnership by Xavier Moreau’s...

Derby fans will be on the edge of their seats Saturday afternoon as a trio of Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series events will give a more clear picture of the field for “America’s Greatest Race.”
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Lady Scarlet will
bring improving form to Sunday’s $400,000 Beaumont (G3) at Keeneland, rolling
to a 4 3/4-length win in the March 19 Cicada S. at Aqueduct, and she’ll step up
to the graded level against six sophomore filly rivals.
Contested...

A full field of 12 three-year-olds will travel 1 1/8 miles on the Keeneland dirt surface in Saturday’s $1 million Blue Grass S. (G1). The headliner on a huge opening weekend of action at the Lexington, Kentucky venue is a qualifying event on the...

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The $1 million Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park, a
major Road to the Kentucky Derby series qualifier awarding 170 points toward a
berth in the first leg of the Triple Crown, is expected to produce at least
three Kentucky Derby starters.
Two new Kentucky
Derby...

A major qualifier in the Road to the Kentucky Derby series,
the $1.25 million Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn Park shifted location on the
calendar this year, moving from three to five weeks out from the first Saturday in May.
The top two finishers from...

A rallying second in the Feb. 19 Risen Star (G2) at Fair
Grounds, Smile Happy will attempt to
get back into the win column in Saturday’s $1 million Blue Grass (G2) at
Keeneland. The major qualifier in the Kentucky Derby series awards points on a
100-40-20-10...

Trainer Todd Pletcher has won the $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) six times since
2010, and last year saddled Bourbonic and Dynamic One for a 453-1 exacta in the
nine-furlong Kentucky Derby (G1) prep.
The Hall of Famer doesn't have longshots of that...