By Richard Rosenblatt If Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert wins a record-breaking seventh Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 1, it won’t be with Life Is Good. The unbeaten and early Kentucky Derby favorite r...
By Richard Rosenblatt With the road to the Kentucky Derby – and the Kentucky Oaks – set for a stop in New Orleans on Saturday, we can picture ourselves settling in at Liuzza’s, ordering a bowl o...
By Richard Rosenblatt Some numbers to digest as we get ready for the first of eight Kentucky Derby preps with qualifying points of 100-40-20-10 to the first four finishers of each race … The winner ...
By Richard Rosenblatt Make room for Concert Tour on the ever-expanding list of trainer Bob Baffert’s top Kentucky Derby contenders. The Hall of Famer saddled Gary and Mary West’s homebred to an im...
By Richard Rosenblatt Inhale. Exhale. Either way, there’s no denying, at least for now, that Helium belongs in this week’s edition of the usracing.com Kentucky Derby Top 10. From nowhere to...
By Richard Rosenblatt We’ve just seen a triple play on the road to the Kentucky Derby. And it had a little something for everyone, especially longshot bettors. The start of the trio of Derby prep ra...
Kentucky Derby Top 10 Entries By Richard Rosenblatt A Bob Baffert nationwide statement is set to be delivered this weekend from California to New York. The six-time Kentucky Derby winning trainer will...
By Richard Rosenblatt That was easy, wasn’t it? Two-time champion Monomoy Girl kicked off her 6-year-old campaign with an emphatic victory in the $250,000 Bayakoa Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park on Sund...
By Richard Rosenblatt In a 13-minute span on Saturday afternoon [Feb. 27], early Kentucky Derby favorite Essential Quality cruised to victory in the slop in the $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3), followe...
By Richard Rosenblatt It could rain but it won’t snow at Oaklawn Park on Saturday when unbeaten Essential Quality finally makes his 3-year-old debut in the $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3). What is th...
