Kentucky Derby News

California Chrome, the 2014 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1) hero, returns to action in Saturday’s $200,000 San Pasqual S. (G2) at Santa Anita. The 1 1/16-mile contest has a scheduled post time of 7:03 p.m. (EST), and you can watch (and...

Dressed in Hermes is the most accomplished of the nine three-year-olds entered in Saturday’s $100,000 Sham (G3) at Santa Anita, but must show he can run as effectively on dirt as he does on turf to take the one-mile test.
The Sham serves as the...

Schedule Features Six Grade I Events, Seven Multi-Stakes Programs In 38-Day Session
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2015) – The 142nd renewals the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) and $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks...

Klaravich Stables and William H. Lawrence’s Flexibility opened his 3-year-old season with a stylish 4 ¼-length victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Jerome Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct, picking up 10 points while dominating the first Kentucky Derby...

Richard Baltas, Hebert Bloodstock and J K Racing LLC’s Forever Darling bided her time tracking pacesetter Pretty N Cool on the backstretch of Saturday’s $200,500 Santa Ynez S. (G2), then pounced in the lane to grab control of the Road to the...

Saturday’s $200,000 Jerome Stakes (G3) for newly-turned 3-year-olds serves as the first Kentucky Derby qualifier of 2016 and will feature a field of nine on the inner track at Aqueduct.
As part of the “Prep Season” in the Road to the...

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With the launch of the inaugural TwinSpires.com Kentucky Derby Betting Championships, top handicappers have added incentive to focus upon horse racing’s most famous race.
Kentucky Derby weekend is already a bucket-list item for any sports fan,...

Trainer Bob Baffert had two opportunities to secure a record-setting eighth victory in Saturday’s Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) thanks to Mor Spirit and Toews on Ice.
The conditioner not only got the win but ended up with the exacta in the $350,500...

Last Saturday saw Street Fancy, a bay daughter by Kentucky Derby (G1) victor Street Sense, upset the Starlet S. (G1) at Los Alamitos by a length.
It wasn’t much of an upset, as the Philip D’Amato trainee was sent off at 6-1, but she still...

Saturday’s $350,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) is the final Kentucky Derby qualifier of 2015, awarding points on a 10-4-2-1 scale to the top four finishers, and four-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert will send out the two likely favorites,...