Three days out from the gate at Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Derby odds are doing what they always do this close to post time: shifting, tightening, and telling you something worth paying attention to if you know how to read the board. Renegade came into post position draw week as the clear morning...
The 152nd Kentucky Derby goes Saturday at Churchill Downs, and if you have been spending your week grinding prep race replays and staring at post position histories, you already know this is a wide-open renewal. The morning line has Renegade as the 4-1 chalk, but there are at least three horses in t...
Prom Queen impressed trainer Brad Cox from the minute she joined his barn last Fall. Nothing has diminished his opinion of her since then as she prepares for the biggest challenge of her young career: the $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Friday night (post time 8:40 p.m. ET). The Oaks for 3-year-o...
Silent Tactic, the Arkansas Derby (G1) runner-up, has been scratched from Saturday’s $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) with a bruised foot, allowing also-eligible Great White to move into the field. Trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, Silent Tactic was listed at 20-1 on the morning line and had draw...
Derby Day will be here before you know it, the one time of the year when everybody is a horse racing fan. It’s also the time to pull out the bankroll and peel off some serious money. We’ve been staked to $500 to invest in the 2026 Kentucky Derby, and we’ve sharpened our handicapping pencils. [...
Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs brought the news that serious Derby bettors had been dreading for days. Silent Tactic, trained by Mark Casse, is out of the 152nd Kentucky Derby with a bruised foot. That makes him the first official scratch from the field, and it sets off a chain reaction that e...
The Run for the Lilies is two days away, and the post draw is set. Fourteen fillies will line up at Churchill Downs on Friday, May 1, for the 152nd Kentucky Oaks, a $1.5 million, 1 1/8-mile classic that goes in primetime for the first time ever, with an 8:40 p.m. EDT post. This is […]...
Each year since 1971, Eclipse Awards have been given to the elite runners from each division, as well as to racing’s top owners, breeders, and jockeys. The awards, which are named for foundation sire Eclipse, are voted on by a three-member panel consisting of the National Thoroughbred Racing Assoc...
Danon Bourbon and Wonder Dean, the two Japan-based Kentucky Derby (G1) contenders, put in leisurely 4-furlong workouts at Churchill Downs on Tuesday. Danon Bourbon, unbeaten in three career starts in Japan, breezed 4 furlongs in 52.80 seconds; Japan-bred Wonder Dean, winner of the UAE Derby (G2), we...
If you made a future bet on Renegade at double-digit odds, you were congratulating yourself after his Arkansas Derby (G1) runaway made him the consensus favorite in the Kentucky Derby (G1). But the horse racing gods are fickle and merciless, and you cringed Saturday when he drew the rail, which hasn...
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