Kentucky Derby News

A
total of seven three-year-olds will speed 5 1/2 furlongs on the Ellis Park lawn
in Saturday’s $100,000 Dade Park Dash S. The event features just one prior
winner on the green, as the cast holds a combined 2-for-13 mark on the sod
collectively.

The
Fausto...

A strong field of eight will go 1 1/8 miles on the Ellis Park dirt surface in Saturday’s $1 million Stephen Foster S. (G1). Conditioner Kenny McPeek holds a strong hand in the race with a pair of in-form stars, including the impressive Alysheba...

An excellent field of six fillies and mares will run seven panels on the Ellis Park dirt in Saturday’s $225,000 Chicago S. (G3). A trio of graded stakes heroines, two of which have made good at the Grade 1 level, will lead the six-pack postward...

A total of six sophomore fillies will travel one mile on the Ellis Park
main surface in Saturday’s $175,000 Monomoy Girl S. The Brad Cox-trained
Wet Paint was last seen finishing a solid fourth in the recent Kentucky Oaks (G1) when sent postward...

Thirty years after Hall of Fame jockey Julie Krone became the first and thus
far only female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when guiding Colonial Affair
in the 1993
Belmont S. (G1), the 'Test of the Champion' yielded another first when...

Thirty years after Hall of Fame jockey Julie Krone became the first and thus far only female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when guiding Colonial Affair in the 1993 Belmont S. (G1), the "Test of the Champion" yielded another first when Arcangelo gave...

Supersire Tapit, currently tied with the legendary 19th-century stallion Lexington as the sire of four Belmont (G1) winners, will try to break the record with a fifth on Saturday. 
Tapit has two sons in the 1 1/2-mile classic, as you can guess from...

A superb field of nine sophomores will travel 1 1/2 miles over Big Sandy in Saturday’s
155th running of the $1.5 million Belmont S. (G1). The feature on a star-studded day of
action will challenge the class and stamina of each of the contenders...

A total of six sophomore fillies will run 1 1/8 miles on the Churchill Downs green in
Saturday’s $225,000 Regret S. (G3). The first of six black-type events on the huge card
attracted four contenders from the recent Edgewood S. (G2) at Churchill...

A full field of 12 fillies and mares will travel 1 1/2 miles over the Churchill Downs lawn in Saturday’s $225,000 Keertana S. The grassy feature attracted a well-matched cast for the marathon on the grass in what appears to be a very competitive...