Fade Renegade, Key Fulleffort on a Wet Churchill Strip The 2026 Kentucky Derby is shaping up as one of the more interesting weather-driven handicapping puzzles in recent memory. Louisville is sitting under a 90% rain forecast for Derby week, and if that track gets soaked and sealed before post time ...
The Kentucky Oaks field took a significant hit Sunday morning when Bottle of Rouge, the Grade I-winning Vino Rosso filly trained by Bob Baffert, was scratched after failing a veterinary scope exam at Churchill Downs. She started coughing post-workout on April 26, the scope came back dirty, and that ...
Brad Cox already has his name immortalized as a Kentucky Derby (G1) winning trainer. He reached that lofty peak when Mandaloun was finally confirmed the winner of the 2021 Run for the Roses. Mandaloun was awarded the victory when Medina Spirit, first under the wire, was disqualified for a failed pos...
The post position draw for the 2026 Kentucky Derby came in this morning, and within minutes, the phones were buzzing and the morning line was already getting stress-tested. That's what happens when the rail goes to the favorite. Renegade drew Post 1. The chalk. The horse everyone has been building t...
The trio of Mike Repole, Todd Pletcher, and Irad Ortiz, Jr. not only has the morning-line favorite for the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) in Renegade, but they’re also partnered with the $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) morning-line favorite Zany. The 3-year-old filly was made the 4-1 early choice ...
The draw is done. Forty-five seconds of gate assignments just reshuffled every serious Kentucky Derby betting ticket in the country. If you built a pre-draw structure around Renegade as your win key, you have some decisions to make. And if you had Further Ado boxed cleanly on top of your exotics, Po...
Brad Cox-trained Commandment, Further Ado both 6-1 Renegade finished first in New York, Florida, and Arkansas, and now he’s the lukewarm 4-1 morning-line favorite to come through again in the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs on May 2. The highly anticipated post-position draw was ...
Well, what do you know? Six-time Kentucky Derby (G1) winning trainer Bob Baffert has himself a second contender in the Run for the Roses. A week before the Derby, Baffert’s Litmus Test moved into the field after Chip Honcho was declared out of contention by trainer Steve Asmussen on Saturday morni...
The Starting Grid is Set for a Historic Showdown Churchill Downs erupted in anticipation this afternoon as the official post position draw for the 152nd Kentucky Derby concluded. This ceremony marks the final major variable before the horses step onto the track on the first Saturday in May. Every tr...
Steve Asmussen didn't like what he saw Saturday morning, and he pulled the trigger fast. After watching Chip Honcho go five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 during the 7:15 a.m. Churchill Downs training window reserved for Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks hopefuls, the Hall of Fame trainer announced roughly an ...
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