The $200,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G2) on Saturday is a key Road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) prep offering 100-50-25-15-10 points to the top five finishers. A top race for 3-year-old fillies in California, the race has sent many runners on to Churchill Downs to wear the garland of lilies under the Twin Sp...
A year ago, Arcangelo won the $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct en route to historic victories in the Belmont Stakes (G1), the Travers Stakes (G1), and then won the Eclipse Award as the top 3-year-old colt. The 1 1/8-mile Peter Pan is Saturday, with Deterministic looking to make amends for ...
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystic Dan continues to show signs he’s ready to take on the $2 million Preakness (G1) at Pimlico Race Course on May 18. “At this stage, I like what I see,” trainer Ken McPeek said Wednesday at Churchill Downs, where Mystik Dan returned to the track for the first tim...
The $2 million Preakness (G1) is near, Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan is still in the picture, and the field is beginning to take shape in a Hall of Fame kind of way. While trainer Ken McPeek plans to watch Mystik Dan carefully on Wednesday as he returns to the track for the first […]...
Could it be possible that none of the 20 horses who ran in the Kentucky Derby (G1) will compete in the Preakness Stakes (G1) in less than two weeks? A year ago, only Derby winner Mage went on to the second leg of the Triple Crown, renewing the call to space out the traditional five-week […]...
Favorite Fierceness? El foldo. Runner-up Sierra Leone? Excellent in defeat. Longshot Mystik Dan? Kentucky Derby (G1) winner! Mystik Dan a nose best in a three-way photo finish to win the 150th Kentucky Derby. Dismissed at odds of 18-1, Mystik Dan was given a perfect trip under Brian Hernandez, Jr., ...
Program Trading outdueled Naval Power in the final furlong and won the $1 million Turf Classic (G1) for 4-year-olds and up by a head on Saturday at Churchill Downs prior to Kentucky Derby (G1). The 4-year-old ridgling is now 3-for-3 in Grade 1s (5-of-6 overall), having won the Saratoga Derby as a 3-...
Horse Racing News Seize the Gray seized the lead in the middle of the stretch and went on to post a 1 ¼-length victory over favored Nash to win the $600,000 Pat Day Mile (G2) on Saturday, giving his 88-year-old trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, his fourth win in the race and his multitude of owners [&hellip...
The verdict in the $1 million Derby City Distaff went to Vahva, who took the lead from rival Alva Starr in the stretch and won by two lengths Saturday in the first of three $1 million races on the Kentucky Derby Day undercard. Trained by Cherie DeVaux and ridden by Irad Ortiz, Jr., Vahva moved [&hel...
Part of the Kentucky Derby’s mystique is that it’s a race in which almost anything can happen and often does. A run of six consecutive winning favorites from 2013-18 (Orb, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Nyquist, Always Dreaming, Justify) defied that notion. Then chaos reasserted itself big...
Record-setting Fierceness may be the favorite to win the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) on Saturday, but the usracing.com team doesn’t see it quite that way. Five of our seven astute handicappers are picking against 5-2 Fierceness in the 150th Run for the Roses, going with the likes of 3-1 second ...
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