By US Racing Team Viva Venezuela! Mage took charge in the stretch and outdueled Two Phil’s in an exciting finish to the 149th Kentucky Derby (G1) on Saturday at Churchill Downs before a crowd of 150,335. The lightly raced colt came into the Derby with just a maiden victory in three career starts b...
By US Racing Staff This time, the end of the dream for owner Mike Repole came on the morning of the $3 million Kentucky Derby (G1). Forte, the 2-year-old champion and favorite to win Saturday’s Run for the Roses (post time 6:57 p.m. ET), was scratched from the Kentucky Derby by the Kentucky Hors...
By US Racing Team The weather report for Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs is looking mighty good at this point. With rain and possible thunderstorms in the forecast earlier in the week at just around the 6:57 p.m. ET post time for Saturday’s $3 million Kentucky Derby (G1), that has all change...
By US Racing Team Another long shot? Another disqualification? Is there a Triple Crown winner in the field? The way the results of the Kentucky Dery (G1) have gone over the past five editions, we know anything can happen. And we mean anything. Make that six – and this year’s race has yet to be [...
The 149th Kentucky Derby (G1) presented by Woodford Reserve will be run on Saturday, May 6, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The purse is $3 million, with $1.86 million going to the winner. US Racing is profiling each horse in the field. The post-position draw is Monday, May 1. Profiles w...
By US Racing Team Mike Battaglia has been Churchill Downs’ morning line odds maker for 48 years since 1974 and the 2023 Kentucky Derby will mark his 50th year assigning morning line odds to the Kentucky Derby field. Morning line odds, which are odds given to horses in a race prior to the start of ...
By US Racing Team Street Sense (2007), California Chrome (2014), American Pharoah (2015), Nyquist (2016) and Authentic (2020) are the only horses that entered the Kentucky Derby with at least $1 million in career earnings and won the race. Overall, a total of 62 millionaires have run in the Kentucky...
By US Racing Team The excitement of the Kentucky Derby is never restricted to just the two minutes or so in which the races run. In the weeks leading up to the annual event, contenders jump onto and off the probables lists daily and the hype builds steadily up until and through the time the [&hellip...
By US Racing Team Only one Derby winner since 1908 broke his maiden in the Derby, which means that the majority of all Derby runners have at least graduated to the winners’ class and made it to stakes company. In 2020, Authentic became the fourth Derby winner to have broken his maiden at Del Mar. ...
By US Racing Team So far, nine geldings -- Vagrant (1876), Apollo (1882), Macbeth II (1888), Old Rosebud (1914), Exterminator (1918), Paul Jones (1920), Clyde Van Dusen (1929), Funny Cide (2003) and Mine That Bird (2009) are the only geldings to have won the Kentucky Derby. A total of 118 geldings h...
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