Asmussen duo looms large in 12-horse Iroquois
The Road to the Kentucky Derby series kicks off Saturday with the $150,000 Iroquois (G3) at Churchill Downs, the first of 35 races that determine preference for a 20-horse field in the first leg of […]
Road to the Kentucky Derby
Road to the Kentucky Derby series begins with Iroquois
America’s greatest race, the Kentucky Derby (G1) will be offered for the 145th consecutive year on May 4, 2019, and the Road to the Kentucky Derby series (RTKD) has determined preference for the 20-horse field […]
Churchill Downs to kick off 11-day September meet
The September meet at Churchill Downs begins Friday with a 10-race program and the opening weekend features the first race in the 2018-19 Road to the Kentucky Derby series, Saturday’s $150,000 Iroquois (G3) which also […]
Magnum Moon’s Arkansas Derby win adds to assault on Apollo
Magnum Moon’s connections aren’t scared of Apollo. When asked what he thought of the so-called Apollo curse – no horse has won the Kentucky Derby (G1) without racing as a two-year-old since Apollo in 1882 […]
Magnum Moon faces eight in $1 million Arkansas Derby
Relative inexperience proved no hurdle for Magnum Moon in last month’s Rebel (G2). On Saturday, the Todd Pletcher trainee will be back at Oaklawn Park seeking to add the track’s signature event, the $1 million […]
Vino Rosso brings the house down with Wood Memorial victory
by Teresa Genaro The cheering started at about the eighth-pole. It got louder by the sixteenth-pole. And by the time Vino Rossi hit the wire three lengths ahead of Enticed in the $1 million Wood […]
Baffert pupil ‘Justifies’ favoritism in Santa Anita Derby
Justify easily captured his stakes debut in Saturday’s $1,000,345 Santa Anita Derby (G1) under jockey Mike Smith, scoring by three lengths to move his record to a perfect three-for-three and earn a spot in the […]
Enticed faces eight in Wood Memorial
Gotham Stakes (G3) scorer Enticed lines up against eight rivals on Saturday, including Gotham runner-up Old Time Revival and fourth-placer Firenze Fire, when going nine furlongs in Aqueduct’s $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2). Enticed threw his […]
Audible makes some noise in Florida Derby
by Teresa Genaro On a weekend that saw New York-breds flourish both in the United States and abroad, Audible announced himself as one to be reckoned with when he won the $1 million Florida Derby […]
Runaway Ghost captures Sunland Derby
Joe Peacock’s homebred Runaway Ghost lived up to his near 4-1 favoritism on Sunday in the $800,000 Sunland Derby (G3), taking a commanding lead in the lane at Sunland Park and easily holding the rallying […]