by Margaret Ransom Keeneland’s highly anticipated spring racing season gets underway on a Thursday this year — the first Thursday opening in 60 years — and over the course of the historic 16-day...
E Five Racing and Stonestreet Stables’ champion Good Magic on Saturday returned to top form and reminded everyone exactly why he earned the crown as last year’s top juvenile with his 1 ½-length v...
A field of 15 was entered for Saturday’s $1 million Blue Grass Stakes (GII) at Keeneland, the last main prep in the state for the Kentucky Derby (GI) down the highway at Churchill Downs in four week...
Does anybody want to win this year’s Kentucky Derby? I mean, seriously? After watching the Louisiana Derby on Saturday, which came on the heels of a subpar Rebel Stakes, a terrible Tampa Bay Derby a...
Trainer John Shirreffs said Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby champ Gormley and show finisher Royal Mo will have all of their serious preparations for the Grade 1Kentucky Derby at Santa Anita and ship to Chur...
Grade 1 $1,000,000 Santa Anita Derby Santa Anita, April 8, 2017 John Shirreffs (trainer, Gormley, 1st and Royal Mo, 3rd) “I think the key was (jockey Victor) Espinoza rating Gormley and then makin...
Reddam Racing’s maiden Irap faced a strong field of six other sophomores, more than half of which were graded stakes winners, and earned his first trip to the winner’s circle as well as a ticket t...
Although the field is short, Keeneland’s Kentucky Derby prep race boasts the deepest lineup of talent since the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last November. The Toyota Blue Grass Stakes — the premier r...
According to the Paulick Report, “two historic races for 3-year-olds on the road to the Kentucky Derby – the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct – will be dropped fr...
The Spring version of Super Saturday certainly lived up to the hype as Aqueduct, Keeneland, and Santa Anita hosted their final prep races for the Kentucky Derby. Soggy conditions were the theme of t...
