Let’s hear it for 72-year-old trainer Lonnie Briley, the ‘Rebel Rouser’ on the Road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) for the first time with his little bay colt Coal Battle. Sweeping past the field ar...
First Resort is not so fit, after all. A few days after declaring First Resort “as fit as I can get him,’’ trainer Eoin Harty said the 2-1 favorite will scratch out of Saturday night’s $175,00...
Running in Saturday night’s $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial certainly won’t offer pleasant racing conditions, but it does reward the winner with 20 qualifying points on the Road to the Kentucky D...
It’s been a brutal winter in many parts of the country. Hot Springs, Arkansas, gets a taste of the nasties this week. With a stretch of brutal cold enveloping the area, Oaklawn Park shuffled the sch...
Count ‘em: Barnes, Citizen Bull, Getaway Car. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is up to three 3-year-olds in the latest usracing.com Kentucky Derby Top 10, with a bunch more in position to join them...
Baffert, Lukas, Baffert, Lukas, and at the wire it was trainer Bob Baffert’s Getaway Car over D. Wayne Lukas’ Caldera by a head bob in the $400,000 Sunland Park Derby on Sunday. The finish of the ...
Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen knew what needed to happen if his longshot Magnitude was to have a chance in the $500,000 Risen Star Stakes (G1) at Fair Grounds. Jockey Ben Curtis followed instruc...
Wayne Lukas began training quarter horses in 1976, eventually moved to thoroughbreds, and has 15 Triple Crown races wins on his Hall of Fame resume, including four in the Kentucky Derby. Even after he...
Now it gets serious. The $500,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) on Saturday is the first 105-point qualifying race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. The winner gets 50 points, usually more than enough to ea...
This is the calm-before-the-storm week on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, with no changes in the latest usracing.com Derby Top 10. No big-name dropouts (yet). No missteps by current contenders. And ...
