Kentucky Derby News

Trainer Mark Casse’s stakes quartet of Helium, Palazzi, Spanish Loveaffair and Tap It to Win are poised to return to form on Saturday’s Stephen Foster Preview Day at Churchill Downs.
“I think all four of our horses are very live in...

Donnie and Ken Hardin are hard to miss when backside employees enter the Churchill Downs Stable Gate each morning. The brothers, who work on the security team, bring their passion of horse racing and the spirit of their father with them to each shift...

Frank Fletcher Racing Operations’ Frank’s Rockette was made the slight 6-5 morning line favorite over Lloyd Madison Farms’ Sconsin (8-5) in Saturday night’s $150,000 Winning Colors (Grade III), the featured event for Downs After...

Grade I winner Arkow has aged well. The 7-year-old horse, who made his first start of the year, won Saturday’s 84th running of the $150,000 Louisville Stakes (Grade III) at Churchill Downs by one length over Red Knight in 2:27.13 – a stakes...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Wednesday, May 12, 2021) – Donegal Racing, Joseph Bulger and the Estate of Peter Conway’s Grade I-winning turf specialist Arklow is set to return from a nearly six-month break in Saturday’s 84th running of the $150,000...

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (“TRF”) will welcome graded stakes winner Warrior’s Club to the TRF Sanctuary Farm at Chestnut Hall through a generous $30,000 donation from the Churchill Downs Racing Club.
“The Churchill...

Veteran bloodstock agent Gary Young is still living on a proverbial Cloud Nine following Medina Spirit’s victory in last Saturday’s $3 million Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade I).
Young, who is based in Southern California,...

J. David Richardson and Sandra New’s homebred Lady Edith, the third-longest shot in the field of nine 3-year-old fillies at odds of 24-1, surged past New Boss in deep stretch to post a neck victory in the second running of the $108,075 Mamzelle...

Longtime owner Tim Sweeney didn’t make regular appearances to Churchill Downs but when he did they were memorable. Sweeney passed away in early December at age 72 but his legacy around the racetrack and trainer Greg Foley’s Barn 11 remains...

After the dust settled from another historic Kentucky Derby Week at Churchill Downs, trainer Bob Baffert’s Barn 33 staff were back in their normal routine as Medina Spirit returned to the track following his victory in Saturday’s “Run...