Kentucky Derby News

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...

The San Felipe (G2) has yielded multiple Kentucky Derby
winners in the last decade, and the 1 1/16-mile race produced a top contender
last Saturday.
Makes it
look easy
Forbidden Kingdom
stretched out to two turns like a superstar, dominating by a 5 3/4-length...

Kentucky Derby points were offered at a one-turn mile in the
Gotham S. (G3), the third of four qualifiers at Aqueduct in 2022.
Sharp score
to remain unblemished
Morello did not
disappoint as the even-money favorite, winning geared down by 4 1/2 lengths.
After...

Go for Gin, who splashed his way through the slop at Churchill Downs
to win the 1994 Kentucky Derby (G1), has died at the age of 31.
The cause of death, which occurred Tuesday, was heart failure, according to
officials at the Kentucky Horse Park. Go for...

Classic Causeway, an impressive track-and-distance winner of the Sam F. Davis (G3) last month, will attempt to achieve an increasingly rare double on
Saturday by also winning the $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2) at Tampa Bay Downs.
The 1 1/16-mile Tampa...

The fourth of five pools for the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”) is set for its three-day stand Friday-Sunday with MyRacehorse and Spendthrift Farm’s recent $400,000 San Felipe (Grade II) winner Forbidden Kingdom tabbed...

Tami Bobo’s Simplification garnered 50 points on the 2022 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following his convincing 3 1/2-length score in the $400,000 Fountain of Youth S. (G2) at Gulfstream Park on March 5. The Antonio Sano pupil clocked...