Kentucky Derby News

Wear Orange for Creativity, Enjoy Live Arts Performance and Witness the Fourth Annual William Walker Stakes

LOUISVILLE, KY (April 19, 2018) – Churchill Downs and Fund for the Arts have joined forces for the third year to kick off Derby week by...

Tickets On Sale June 7
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (April 5, 2018) -- The Breeders' Cup today
announced ticket prices and availability for the 35th Breeders’ Cup World
Championships to be held on Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3 at historic
Churchill...

The 144th renewals of the $2 million-guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I) and the $1 million-guaranteed Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI) headline a strong roster of 32 stakes races with total purses of $8.84 million scheduled for...

Features Derby-Winning
Jockeys Pat Day and Gary Stevens and Trainers D. Wayne Lukas and Carl Nafzger;
Benefits Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance

LOUISVILLE, KY (Thursday, March 15,
2018)
– Churchill Downs
today announced Champions Day presented...

Churchill Downs Racetrack will host a Derby-sized job fair on Saturday (March 10) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to hire positions for the upcoming Kentucky Derby and Spring Meet.
Billed as the “Staff Call to Post,” Churchill Downs and its vendor...

Champion 2-year-old filly Caledonia Road, winner of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (Grade I) in November, tops the roster of 90 early nominations to the $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI), America’s premier race for 3-year-old...

Live Oak Plantation’s 2017 Champion Turf Male World Approval tops 62 older grass specialists that were nominated to compete in the newly-renamed $500,000 Old Forester Turf Classic (Grade I) at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day. Formerly known...

Fans Encouraged to Sign Up Online to Receive Access to Pre-Sale Event
LOUISVILLE (February 8, 2018) – Breeders’ Cup, one of Thoroughbred horse racing’s most prestigious international events, announced today that tickets for the 2018...

Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI or the Company) (NASDAQ: CHDN) announced today that it has made a donation of $25,000 to California Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Foundation (CTHF) to distribute to victims of the San Luis Rey Downs fire.
The December...

Visitation and a memorial service for Mike Hargrave, the former director of stabling for Churchill Downs Racetrack for nearly 40 years, will be held Wednesday in Jeffersonville, Ind. Hargrave passed awaySaturday in Louisville following a three-week battle...