Kentucky Derby News

Angel of Empire stepped up for trainer Brad Cox in Saturday’s
$400,000 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds, rallying fastest of all to win by a
length. Runner-up in his stakes debut, the Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park on New Year’s Day, Albaugh
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Friday’s $150,000 UAE Oaks (G3) turned into a match race between Dubai’s top filly Mimi Kakushi and Doug O’Neill shipper Ami Please. As they battled down the lane at Meydan, Mimi Kakushi kept finding more to outlast Ami Please and earn...

The Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby continues in Sunday’s Hyacinth S. at Tokyo, where Triple Crown nominees comprise nearly half of the 14-horse field. With an increased points structure of 30-12-9-6-3 to the top five, the Hyacinth will remake...

Fifty years after Virginia-bred Secretariat took the Triple Crown by storm, a champion colt with deep connections to the Old Dominion is the early favorite for the 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1). Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) hero Forte is a Kentucky-bred...

A full field of 14 three-year-olds will travel 1 1/8 miles on the Fair Grounds dirt in Saturday’s $400,000 Risen Star S. (G2). The 2023 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series contest will reward the top five finishers with qualifying points...

The Kentucky Oaks (G1) trail makes a stop in Dubai on Friday for the $150,000 UAE Oaks (G3), the first scoring race offering 50 points to the winner. Two-time Kentucky Derby (G1)-winning trainer Doug O’Neill has sent Ami Please as part of his Dubai...

Aqueduct offered the Withers (G3) on Feb. 11, the second of four Road to
the Kentucky Derby series qualifiers at the New York track in 2023, and the 1
1/8-mile race offered points on a 20-8-6-4-2 basis to the top five finishers.
1. Hit Show
a convincing...

Fair Grounds in New Orleans will be the proving ground for the 14-horse field in the Risen Star this weekend. On today’s show Darren and KK preview the first major stakes race in the Championship Series on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. They...

The first of two qualifiers at Tampa Bay Downs, the Feb. 11 Sam
F. Davis (G3) offered points on a 20-8-6-4-2 scale as part of the Road to
the Kentucky Derby series, and the top four finishers made their stakes
debut in the 1 1/16-mile race.
1. Litigate
easily...

Saturday’s $400,000 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds ushers in the Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series. The points on offer now increase to a 50-20-15-10-5 structure to the top five.
A full field of 14 has entered the 1 1/8-mile contest,...