The 150th Kentucky Derby (G1) is Saturday, May 4, at Churchill Downs, offering a record $5 million purse. The field is limited to 20 starters based on Derby qualifying points from dozens of prep races. FIERCENESS The result of the Kentucky Derby may very well depend on how Fierceness fares at the ...
Everyone is confident and cautious. The owners. The trainers. The jockeys. No matter the odds, no matter the opposition, no matter the weather, they all have a chance to win the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1). Favorites win. Longshots -- and we mean longshots -- win. On top of that, in the past four...
Philadelphia sports fans have a well-earned reputation for being obnoxiously surly. They love to jeer home teams in times of trouble and clinched their sour reputation in the notorious 1968 Eagles game when they even booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs. Now that’s a tough crowd! They d...
Where’s Bob? Not at the Kentucky Derby. Still banished by Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI) The 150th edition of the Run for the Roses is Saturday (May 4), and Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert remains banned from competing in the race he’s won a record-tying six times. Does the absence of Bob Baffert ...
Several weeks ago, Scottie Scheffler donned the green jacket for a second time, the treasured sartorial prize awarded the Master of Augusta National. On Saturday, the victorious colt in the Kentucky Derby (G1) will be draped in a garland of roses, the traditional garb reserved for the winner of the ...
The 150th Kentucky Derby (G1) is Saturday, May 4, at Churchill Downs, offering a record $5 million purse. The field is limited to 20 starters based on Derby qualifying points from dozens of prep races. Epic Ride replaces Encino, who was scratched. EPIC RIDE First on the also-eligible list for the De...
Mike Repole looks at things differently than most people. It’s made him a billionaire. Billionaire owner confident first Kentucky Derby win is at hand Years ago, when folks were drinking either soda or plain water, he came up with the idea of bridging the gap between the two and pretty much revolu...
It looked like his long drought in the Kentucky Derby was about to end on May 7, 2022. Epicenter surged to the front in upper stretch and looked like the winner until the final strides. That’s when 80-1 shot Rich Strike spurted by along the inside to devastate Steve Asmussen. Asmussen is 0-for-25 ...
A Kentucky-bred has a pretty good chance to win the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 4. First off, history says 115 of the 149 Derby winners were Kentucky breds – that's a 77% strike rate. Kentucky-breds are most common and therefore have won more Derbys Secondly, let it be noted...
The Kentucky Derby trophy, first presented in its modern iteration in 1924, is believed to be the sole solid gold trophy awarded for a major American sporting event. Hand-hammered from a brick of 14-karat gold, with 20-karat gold adornments, it takes more 2,000 man-hours to produce and months to com...
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