Kentucky Derby News

A well-matched field of eight will go postward in Saturday’s $500,000 Essex H. (G3) at Oaklawn Park. The 1 1/16-mile event boasts numerous legitimate contenders, and it seems imperative to me to find value in the feature.
The Rodolphe Brisset-trained...

The second of two qualifiers at Tampa Bay Downs, the
$400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G3) awarded 85 points (50-20-10-5 scale) toward a
berth in the Kentucky Derby on May 7.
Back-to-back
convincing wins
Classic Causeway sprinted clear at the break and rolled
unopposed...

You might imagine that a one-eyed gelding who pulled a 75-1 upset in a major race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby wouldn’t have much of a pedigree. But Un Ojo, the surprise package in the $1 million Rebel (G2), has fine bloodlines all around. 

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Oaklawn Park’s Road to the Kentucky Derby has lacked a standout this season, but the Hot Springs trail will heat up with star filly Secret Oath taking on the boys in the Apr. 2 Arkansas Derby (G1). 
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas gave fellow Hall of...

Classic Causeway continued to burnish his Kentucky Derby
credentials in Saturday’s $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2), dominating the Championship
Series qualifier on the lead. Irad Ortiz Jr. was up on the odds-on favorite,
who has now recorded two straight...

Classic Causeway was always going to be a sentimental rooting interest in the Kentucky Derby (G1), as one of only three registered foals bequeathed by the “Iron Horse” Giant’s Causeway in his final crop. But the blaze-faced chestnut...

The Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream Park will guarantee
the winner a spot in the Run for the Roses, awarding a 50-point prize as a Road to the Kentucky Derby series qualifier, and Simplification continued his rise in the three-year-old ranks with
a...

The Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series will make its final stop at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday where Kentucky West Racing and Clarke Cooper’s two-time winner Classic Causeway tops a field of 12 3-year-olds that...

Simplification became the second major winner on the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby for hot young sire Not This Time, after Epicenter. 

The two exciting contenders have even more in common, however, than their sire. Both Simplification and Epicenter...

A full field of 12 three-year-olds will travel 1 1/16 miles on the dirt in Saturday's $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2). The 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series test will reward the first four to cross the wire with qualifying points on...