Even after a rare loss in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), trainer Bob Baffert comes away from the weekend with the top three 2-year-olds on the road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby. Baffert sent out three of the five runners in the Futurity on Saturday, but it was Michael McCarthy-trained Journa...
Doug O’Neill, a two-time Kentucky Derby (G1) winning trainer, had several intriguing options for his talented colt, Dr Ruben M. The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) last month near his home base in Southern California was under consideration after a snappy front-running maiden victory at Santa Anita ...
Poster swooped past the field around the final turn, took charge in the stretch under Flavien Prat, and held off a strong rally by Aviator Gui to win the $250,000 Remsen Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday. While Godolphin-owned Poster stamped himself an early contender for the 2025 Kentucky Derby (...
First Resort found Churchill Downs to his liking, took charge entering the stretch and won the $400,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) on Saturday. Ridden by Luis Saez, the 2-year-old Uncle Mo colt drove clear through the stretch and topped rallying favorite Jonathan’s Way by 2 ¼ lengths. Good ...
It’s a long way to the first weekend in May at Churchill Downs, but it’s already time for 2-year-old colts and fillies to take their first steps on the road to the marquee events of spring. Saturday’s card in Louisville features two Grade 2 races for juveniles, the $400,000 Golden Rod Stakes f...
Breaking from post 9 in a field of 11, Jonathan’s Way led all the way and won the $250,000 Iroquois Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on Saturday, the first race on the road to the Kentucky Derby. The 2-year-old Ohio-bred colt was in command over the 1-mile Iroquois under Hall of Fame jockey Joel Ros...
And they’re off on the Road to the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1). Churchill Downs, home of America’s iconic horse race, hosts the first Derby points qualifier on Saturday, the $300,000 Iroquois Stakes (G3). A field of 12 2-year-olds is entered for the 1-mile Iroquois, which awards points on a sliding...
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., ...
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...
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