Kentucky Derby News
October 11, 2023
Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Timberlake
Siena
Farm and WinStar Farm’s Timberlake picked up 10 points on the 2024 Road to the
Kentucky Derby challenge series after drawing off to a 4 1/4-length score in the
$500,000 Champagne S. (G1) at Aqueduct on Oct. 7. Piloted by Florent Geroux,
the...
October 11, 2023
Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Locked
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm’s Locked earned 10 points on the 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following his half-length victory in the $580,750 Breeders’ Futurity S. (G1) at Keeneland on Oct. 7. The juvenile...
October 8, 2023
Locked has measure of The Wine Steward in Breeders’ Futurity
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Walmac Farm’s Locked overcame a wide trip to prevail as the odds-on favorite in Saturday’s $580,750 Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland. The Todd Pletcher trainee outdueled hitherto undefeated The Wine...
October 7, 2023
Timberlake skips over slop en route to Champagne glory
Bettors were slightly cool toward Timberlake for the first time in the
two-year-old colt's four-race career in Saturday's $500,000 Champagne (G1) at
Aqueduct. The faithful were rewarded when Timberlake proved comfortably best in
the 2024 Road...
October 7, 2023
Chatalas leads all the way in Chandelier; Just F Y I splashes home in Frizette
A pair of Kentucky Oaks qualifiers took place on opposite
coasts Saturday. In the $202,000 Chandelier (G2) at
Santa Anita, Chatalas made all
the pace and recorded her first stakes victory, scoring by 1 1/2 lengths. Just F Y I made her stakes debut a winning
one...
October 7, 2023
Candied proves a treat in Alcibiades
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Candied aced her class and distance tests in Friday’s $600,000 Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland, earning a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) as well as 10 points toward the Kentucky Oaks (G1).
The...
October 6, 2023
Pedigree fun facts: 2023 Champagne Stakes
Champion sprinter Speightstown is the paternal grandsire of two Champagne (G1) heroes, Jack Christopher (2021) and Firenze Fire (2017), and now he’ll try to get on the sires’ honor roll himself with two sons squaring off at Aqueduct on Saturday.
Speightstown,...
October 6, 2023
Pedigree fun facts: 2023 Breeders’ Futurity
Young sire sensation Gun Runner bids to add another major win to his ledger with Locked, the morning-line favorite in Saturday’s Breeders’ Futurity (G1). Gun Runner is already on the board with a placing in the Keeneland feature, courtesy...
October 6, 2023
Pedigree fun facts: 2023 American Pharoah Stakes
Half of the juveniles entered in Saturday’s American Pharoah (G1) come from the sire line of Hall of Famer Curlin. Be You is by Curlin himself, while morning-line favorite Muth, Next Level, and Wine Me Up are grandsons.
Be You is out of Jacaranda,...
October 5, 2023
Pletcher goes for triple in Champagne, Breeders’ Futurity, American Pharoah
Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher has deployed his promising juveniles across the country for Saturday’s three Road to the Kentucky Derby races.
His chances of turning a triple are reflected in his contenders’ morning-line odds –...