Kentucky Derby News

Long before trainer Ron Moquett saddled 2020 Champion Male Sprinter Whitmore, he earned his first Grade 1 win in astounding fashion with 91-1 longshot Seek Gold in the 2006 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs.
The six-year-old bay gelding was making...

Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CHDN) announced today that Churchill Downs Racetrack (“Churchill Downs”) has entered an agreement with Woodford Reserve® Kentucky Bourbon (“Woodford...

The promising 2-year-old filly Hoosier Philly stamped herself as a divisional leader and tantalizing prospect for the Longines Kentucky Oaks as she easily won Saturday’s 79th running of the $400,000 Golden Rod (Grade II) at Churchill Downs with...

In a thrilling run down the Churchill Downs stretch, Godolphin’s 4-year-old homebred colt Proxy was able to run down pacesetter West Will Power inside the final sixteenth of mile and win Friday’s 148th running of the $750,000 Clark presented...

Rigney Racing’s Played Hard broke on top, dictated the pace and turned back challenges at the top of the stretch from Bellamore and Moon Swag to draw clear late and win Thursday’s 107th running of the $485,000 Falls City (Grade III), the traditional...

RED-TR Racing’s Kentucky Derby (Grade I) hero Rich Strike will return to Churchill Downs and face a compact field of seven entered in Friday’s 148th running of the $750,000 Clark presented by Norton Healthcare (GI).
The 1 1/8-mile Clark,...

Rigney Racing’s Played Hard , winner of the $400,000 Locust Grove (Grade III), will headline a field of six fillies and mares that were entered in Thanksgiving Day’s 107th running of the $500,000 Falls City (GIII) at Churchill Downs.
The...

Lothenbach Stables Inc.’s 5-year-old homebred mare She Can’t Sing contested the early pace with Empire House and Liberty M D, assumed command midway around the turn and spurted clear down the stretch to easily win Saturday’s 37th running...

It’s been 100 years since Willis Kilmer’s famed Exterminator rallied to a 1 ½-length victory in the 1922 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs. At the time, his win would go down as one of the most memorable Clark victories in history.
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Ben Huffman, Vice President of Racing for Churchill Downs Racetrack and Racing Secretary at Keeneland Race Course, is the 2022 recipient of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners’ Warner L. Jones Jr. Horseman of the Year Award.
Huffman will be honored...