Kentucky Derby News

Don’t have tickets to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course? The next best place to watch and wager on the year-end championship event in Kentucky is Churchill Downs Racetrack.
Churchill Downs will be open Friday,...

Racing on the Kentucky circuit won’t skip a beat after Keeneland plays host to the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31. Churchill Downs Racetrack will open its 126th Fall Meet on Sunday, Nov....

Rain and unseasonably cool temperatures didn’t keep Louisville from making the Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) 31st Big Shot at Churchill Downs a success.
Local volunteers, RIT students and local RIT alumni used flashlights and other...

Strong performances by Thoroughbred racing’s future stars and a stakes event named in honor of legendary four-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas combined with near-perfect weather and a strong schedule of on-track events during Churchill...

Ron Winchell’s Tapiture returned to the winner’s circle in Saturday’s $100,000 Ack Ack Handicap (Grade III) at Churchill Downs defeating favorite Viva Majorca who had to settle for second. This was the homebred son of Tapit’s first...

Big Chief LLC’s Exaggerator put in his final work for the $500,000 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (GI) on Oct. 3 at Keeneland going five furlongs in 1:01 with Brian Hernandez Jr. aboard.
“He looked awesome,” said Julie Clark, assistant...

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ reigning Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile runner-up Tapiture grabbed the lead at the top of the stretch and determinedly repelled a challenge from fast-closing even-money favorite Viva Majorca to win Saturday’s 23rd running...

Sultan Bin Mishal’s Saham rallied from the back in a field of nine 3-year-olds and finished down the stretch with a rush to win the 38th running of Saturday’s $100,000 Jefferson Cup (Grade III) at Churchill Downs by three-quarters of a length...

A.L. Luedtke’s homebred Geothermal ran down favorite and five-time stakes winner Departing in a long stretch drive to win Saturday’s $175,000 Lukas Classic (Listed) for older horses at Churchill Downs by 1 ½ lengths.
Formerly known...

Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm’s Departing looks to add another stakes victory to his résumé in Saturday’s third running of the $175,000 Lukas Classic (formerly known as the Homecoming Classic), a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds...