Kentucky Derby News

Five-year-old Bullards Alley, the 2016 Louisville Handicap victor, is slated to compete against his 4-year-old full brother Nessy in Saturday’s $100,000 Louisville Handicap (Grade III) at Churchill Downs.
The Louisville Handicap, a 1 ½-mile...

Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen’s duo of Calumet Farm’s Hence and L and N Racing’s Lookin At Lee put in their final breezes Monday morning at Churchill Downs prior to Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (Grade I) at Pimlico Race Course....

John Oxley’s Classic Empire completed his Preakness Stakes preparations at Churchill Downs with a gallop over the main track on Sunday morning. The Kentucky Derby fourth place-finisher is scheduled to depart Barn 36 on Sunday at 5 p.m. (all times...

COX CONFIDENT MOVING FORWARD AFTER SUCCESSFUL DERBY WEEK

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Saturday, May 13, 2017) – Trainer Brad Cox was a regular to the G.H.Mumm Winner’s Circle on Kentucky Derby weekend with three stakes victories: Benner Island in the...

Robert J. Lothenbach’s homebred Nobody’s Fault surged late inside the final sixteenth of a mile to collar Triple Chelsea by one length and win Saturday’s seventh running of the $64,600 Unbridled Sidney for fillies and mares at Churchill...

Peacock Racing Stables’ Gunnevera returned to the Churchill Downs surface under Victor O’Farrell on Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. (all times Eastern) to complete his final preparations in Louisville, Ky. before the May 20 Preakness Stakes (Grade...

Five days removed from a fourth-place effort in the $2,395,800 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I), John Oxley’s Classic Empire continued his preparation for the May 20 Preakness (GI) with a jog under Martin Rivera at 6 a.m. (all times...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Wednesday, May 10, 2017) – After a spectacular opening week highlighted by the 143rd runnings of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Longines Kentucky Oaks, the Churchill Downs Spring Meet resumes with a week highlighted...

Three horses that chased Always Dreaming to the finish line in last Saturday’s 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) returned to the track on a warm Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs.
John Oxley’s Classic...

Lothenbach Stables’ homebred Nobody’s Fault, runner-up to Group I winner Lady Aurelia in the Giant’s Causeway last month at Keeneland, heads a field of 11 fillies and mares entered Wednesday for Saturday’s seventh running of the...