Kentucky Derby News

Saturday night at Churchill Downs has potential to be a prosperous one for jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. who has live mounts in each of the five graded stakes: Eagle in the $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (Grade I), Ahh Chocolate in the $200,000 Fleur de...

Stoneway Farm’s Ahh Chocolate, winner of Pimlico’s $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff (Grade III) on May 20, recorded her final breeze Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs for Saturday night’s $200,000 Fleur de Lis Handicap (GII), a 1 1/8-mile...

Tri-bone Stables’ Effinex, the $2,682,950-earner who won last fall’s Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (Grade I), returns to Churchill Downs as the red-hot, even-money morning line favorite and 122-pound high weight for Saturday...

Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC’s 5-year-old homebred mare Untapable, the winner of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) and Breeders’ Cup Distaff (GI) in 2014 en route to being crowned that year’s Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, looks to regain...

The Pizza Man, the Eclipse Award finalist for 2015 Champion Male Turf Horse owned and bred by Midwest Thoroughbreds Inc. of Richard and Karen Papiese, will be reunited with jockey Florent Geroux when the 7-year-old gelding meets a field of 11 3-year-olds...

The Steve Asmussen-trained duo of Gun Runner, third in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I), and 2014 Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI) winner Untapable both breezed a half-mile for their respective starts in the $100,000 Matt Winn (GIII) and...

Trainer Brad Cox’s pair of 5-year-old mares Cash Control and Sweet Acclaim, who ran one-two in Saturday’s Old Forester Mint Julep Handicap (Grade III) exited their efforts in good order following the 1 1/16-mile grass event and will likely...

Trainer Neil Howard has enjoyed a successful year so far with graded stakes winners Eagle, who defeated multiple graded stakes winner Noble Bird in Keeneland’s Ben Ali (Grade III) on April 16, and Ahh Chocolate, a winner of the Allaire DuPont Distaff...

Richard and Bertram Klein’s 5-year-old mare Cash Control slipped through an opening along the rail at the head of the stretch, grabbed the lead at the three-sixteenths pole and narrowly held on to beat stablemate Sweet Acclaim (IRE) by a head to...

Last Saturday, Alsvid scored a victory in the Aristides (Grade III) for the second consecutive year. This Saturday, Carl Pollard’s Kiss Moon will be looking to do the same when she attempts to defend her title against nine other fillies and mares...