Derby/Oaks Notes: Mr. Big News Derby-bound; Gamine favored in Oaks By US Racing Team Add another zero into the field for the $3 million Kentucky Derby (G1) – a horse with zero Kentucky Derby qualify...
The 2020 Kentucky Derby may not have the exact same sense without tens of thousands of fans in Churchill Downs singing along to”My Old Kentucky Home,” but the background will still be at s...
Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Money Moves By US Racing Team Money Moves is a neck from being unbeaten in his first three career races. Unfortunately, he just lost in an $62,500 optional claimer, and h...
Kentucky Oaks Draw: Baffert’s Gamine Even-Money Favorite By Lynne Snierson The brilliantly fast Gamine, a dual Grade 1 winner owned by Michael Lund Petersen and trained by three-time Oaks-winning tr...
A Most Surprising Derby: Canonero II’s ‘Derbygate’ of 1971 By Maryjean Wall A theme of starting gates and stable gates stood central to the 1971 Kentucky Derby, an oddity that could describe tha...
Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Enforceable By Ed McNamara A deep closer, Lecomte (G3) winner Enforceable made a big run to be second despite serious traffic problems in a division of the Risen Star (G2...
By John Furgele A few weeks ago, driver Yannick Gingras decided to head to Canada because he wanted to drive Tall Dark Stranger in the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup. A year ago, that wouldn’t b...
Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Major Fed By Ed McNamara Closer is 1-for-6 lifetime, 0-for-4 in stakes, with his career highlight a close second to Modernist (division of G2 Risen Star), who wasn’...
By US Racing Team Authentic, perhaps the better half of trainer Bob Baffert’s Derby duo, is all set for his Run for the Roses. The Haskell Stakes (G1) winner had his final pre-Derby workout at Del M...
Kentucky Derby Horse Profile: Max Player By US Racing Team A grinder, Max Player ran respectable thirds in the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers (G1) while never looking like he could win either race, b...
