Kentucky Derby News

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...

Harmonize and Hawksmoor (IRE), the 2-3 finishers separated by a scant nose in last month’s Grade I Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland, headline a deep cast of 3-year-old fillies entered in Friday’s 26th running of the $200,000 Mrs....

A pair of stars based at Churchill Downs Racetrack – John C. Oxley’s Classic Empire (#2) and Albaugh Family Stables’ Not This Time (#16) – are the individual choices, but the Mutuel Field (#24), or “All Others,” is...

Wagering on Albaugh Family Stables’ Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Not This Time (#16) has been suspended for the first of four pools of the 2017 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens its four-day run on Thanksgiving Day.
According to...

Offspring sired by Tapit, North America’s clear-cut leading stallion with 2016 earnings of more than $18.3 million, are 10-1 odds on the morning line for the second annual Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager, which provides bettors with a unique opportunity...

Richard and Bert Klein’s Cash Control came out of her impressive victory in Saturday’s Cardinal Handicap (Grade III) in good shape, according to trainer Brad Cox, and will join the trainer’s Fair Grounds division for the winter.
“She’ll...

Brereton C. Jones and Timothy C. Thornton’s Include Betty, winner of the Grade I Mother Goose to highlight her 3-year-old season, and Mike Tarp’s Go Maggie Go, winner of Pimlico’s Black-Eyed Susan (GII) and fourth to Cathryn Sophia in...

Multi-millionaire and two-time Grade I-winner The Pizza Man will vie for his 13th career stakes win when he faces a full field of older males in the 39th running of the $100,000 River City Handicap (GIII) at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Thanksgiving Day at...

Janis Whitham’s rising star McCraken is just one of several graded stakes contenders that could give trainer Ian Wilkes a successful Thanksgiving weekend at Churchill Downs.
The highly-regarded son of Ghostzapper created buzz following his Oct....

Richard and Bert Klein’s Cash Control rated just behind longshot pacesetter Lots o’ Lex before unleashing a powerful closing kick in the stretch to easily win Saturday’s 43rd running of the $100,000 Cardinal Handicap (Grade III) at Churchill...