Kentucky Derby News

North America’s reigning Champion Male Sprinter Runhappy landed post position No. 5 for his much-anticipated 4-year-old debut in Saturday’s 24th running of the $100,000 Ack Ack Presented by TwinSpires.com (Grade III) over one mile at Churchill...

G. Watts Humphrey Jr.’s homebred Mines and Magic muscled her way through an opening at the top of the stretch to grab the lead with three-sixteenths of a mile to run and held off a late charge by Wonderment to win Saturday night’s 41st running...

G. Watts Humphrey Jr.’s Mines and Magic will target Keeneland’s $250,000 Raven Run (Grade II) on Oct. 22 for her next start following Saturday’s three-quarter-length win in the $100,000 Dogwood Stakes (listed) at Churchill Downs.
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A game second-place effort behind multiple graded stakes winner Da Big Hoss in the $594,180 Kentucky Turf Cup (Grade II) on Sept. 10 has given trainer Tim Glyshaw confidence that Bullards Alley can spin back in three weeks for the $175,000 Lukas Classic...

Joseph Sutton’s Bradester, upset winner of the $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (Grade I) in June, will be looking for another victory over the Churchill Downs main track when he makes his next start in the $175,000 Lukas Classic (listed) on Saturday,...

Last November, trainer Jimmy Jerkens invaded Churchill Downs for the $500,000 Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I) with Breeders’ Cup Classic (GI) runner-up Effinex, and hopes to do the same Saturday night when he sends Saharan...

Zayat Stables LLC’s Indiana Oaks (Grade II) runner-up Emmzy landed the outside post in a field of eight 3-year-old fillies as she attempts to land her first stakes victory in Saturday night’s 41st running of the $100,000 Dogwood Stakes Presented...

Normandy Farm’s homebred Daddys Lil Darling made a sweeping five-wide move late to take Saturday’s 48th running of the $200,000 Pocahontas Presented by TwinSpires.com (Grade II) by a diminishing half-length over hard-charging Ever So Clever...

Following an emphatic 8 ¾-length victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Iroquois Presented by TwinSpires.com (Grade III) at Churchill Downs, Not This Time is scheduled to go straight to the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI) at Santa Anita...

Big Chief Racing LLC, Head of Plains Partners LLC and Rocker O Ranch LLC’s Preakness Stakes (Grade I) victor Exaggerator breezed five furlongs in 1:00.20 on Saturday morning at Churchill Downs in preparation for the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby...