Saturday’s $400,000 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds ushers in the Kentucky Derby Championship Series with more points up for grabs. A sign of the trail’s increasing momentum toward the first Saturday in May, the […]
Oaklawn Park has cancelled three scheduled days of racing over the upcoming holiday weekend (Feb. 13-15) due to winter weather forecast to include below-freezing temperatures and snow. The Thursday and Friday programs this week will […]
Risen Star (G2) — Race 13 (7:18 p.m. ET) Taking a big step forward from age two to three when wiring the opposition in last month’s Lecomte (G3), Midnight Bourbon will try and do it […]
Risk Taking took a big step forward after adding blinkers in mid-December and did it again on Saturday when entering the Kentucky Derby (G1) picture following a 3 3/4-length decision in the $250,000 Withers S. […]
Withers (G3) — Aqueduct Race 8 (4:25 p.m. ET) Capo Kane, who lulled his rivals to sleep in a New Year’s Day romp of the one-mile Jerome S., will attempt to stretch his speed over […]
Trainer Shug McGaughey has another Kentucky Derby (G1) prospect on his hands in Greatest Honour, who decisively captured Saturday’s $200,000 Holy Bull S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park by 5 3/4 lengths in his stakes debut. […]
Holy Bull S. (G3) — Race 11 (4:50 p.m. ET) Although he’s had only one start and victory to his credit, an 8 3/4-length maiden score over 6 furlongs last month, the optimism surrounding Prime […]
One year after Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert secured a record-equaling sixth Kentucky Derby victory, Baffert trainees were prominent in the betting in 2021 Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2. Held from Jan. 22-24, […]
Prominent Arkansan John Ed Anthony is back on the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail, after his homebred Caddo River dominated Friday’s $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on opening day at Oaklawn Park. Trained by Brad Cox, who […]
Smarty Jones S. — Race 8 (5:11 p.m. ET) Native Arkansan John Ed Anthony long ago tasted success in the Belmont S. (G1), with Temperence Hill in 1980, and in the Preakness (G1), with Pine […]
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