Kentucky Derby News

Carl R. Moore Management LLC and Brad Grady’s Mayla will take things up a notch when she faces a field eight rivals in Saturday’s $200,000 Chilukki (Grade II), a one-mile event for fillies and mares on the Churchill Downs main track.
The Maryland-bred...

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has won many lucrative races in his training career, but a stakes victory for the 200 members of the Churchill Downs Racing Club with Warrior’s Club in Sunday afternoon’s $300,000 Spendthrift Stallion Stakes...

Although trainer Dale Romans is in Southern California this week for competition in the Breeders’ Cup Championships, the Louisville native will keep a close watch on his home track at Churchill Downs Racetrack where Forum Racing IV’s veteran...

John C. Oxley’s Noble Bird is slated to make his next start in the $500,000 Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I) on “Black Friday,” Nov. 25 after an impressive wire-to-wire record-setting victory in Saturday’s...

James M. Miller’s Lovely Bernadette rallied from last to score a half-length victory in Sunday’s fourth running of the $82,340 Rags to Riches Overnight Stakes on opening day of Churchill Downs’ 21-day Fall Meet.
Ridden by Robby Albarado...

Churchill Downs Racing Club’s Warrior’s Club gave his 200 members a thrill they’ll cherish forever when the 2-year-old son of Warrior’s Reward took the lead shortly after the break and never looked back in winning the inaugural...

Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC’s McCraken sat just off a swift pace, angled wide coming around the far turn and took command at the top of the stretch to win Sunday’s fourth running of the $83,470 Street Sense Stakes by a dazzling 3 ¾ lengths...

Friday morning was a busy one for the Mark Casse barn as a quintet of the trainer’s Breeders’ Cup aspirants made their final serious preparations for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita on Nov. 4-5.
Champion Turf Mare...

Cooler temperatures and the leaves changing colors signify the return of live horse racing to the Louisville area as Churchill Downs, the historic home of the Kentucky Derby, readies to open its 127th Fall Meet on Sunday, Oct. 30.
The popular 21-day stand,...

A full field of 14 two-year-olds, led by stakes winner Cool Arrow, was entered Thursday for Sunday’s inaugural running of the $300,000-guaranteed Spendthrift Stallion Stakes – the most lucrative race on Churchill Downs’ opening day program.
Billed...