Kentucky Derby News

Trainer Pat Byrne has high hopes for his pair of 2-year-old colts, Just Move On and Silent Decree, for Saturday’s 90th running of the $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (Grade II), the featured event on Churchill Downs’ ‘Stars of Tomorrow...

Churchill Downs Racetrack and its horsemen presented checks totaling $55,000 to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (“TAA”) between races on Friday at Churchill Downs.
Kentucky horsemen contributed $5 to the TAA for each of their horses that...

Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimney Farm’s Gun Runner has spent his 3-year-old campaign competing against the heavy hitters of that division, but on Friday he’ll pursue his first victory against elders in the 142nd running of the $500,000...

The Elkstone Group’s Indiana homebred Lady Fog Horn – the reigning Indiana Horse of the Year – sounded off against open company on Thanksgiving Day at Churchill Downs with a 1 ½-length triumph over Streamline in the 101st running...

Thatcher Street capped a big day at Churchill Downs for Australian-born trainer Ian Wilkes when his 5-year-old gelding came back to beat chief rival Pleuven (FR) by a half-length to win Thursday’s 39th running of the $100,000 River City Handicap...

New York-based trainer Jimmy Jerkens took last year’s edition of the $500,000 Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I) with Effinex and will bring back the defending champ along with stable mate Shaman Ghost to run in this year’s...

New York-based trainer Jimmy Jerkens took last year’s edition of the $500,000 Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I) with Effinex and will bring back the defending champ along with stable mate Shaman Ghost to run in this year’s...

Normandy Farm’s Daddys Lil Darling, the Pocahontas (Grade II) winner who was runner-up in the Alcibiades (GI) and fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI), tops a field of a dozen 2-year-old fillies entered for Saturday’s 73rd...

Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC’s unbeaten McCraken, an impressive winner of the Street Sense on the opening day of the Fall Meet, will attempt to keep his spotless racing record intact when he steps up to graded stakes competition and takes on 11 rivals...

Defending winner Effinex will bid to become a rare two-time winner of Churchill Downs Racetrack’s $500,000 Grade I Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare when he faces a strong group of nine rivals that includes a trio of Grade I winners...