The Road to the Kentucky Derby Series that determines preferences for horses getting into the Derby starting gate has been tweaked this year to award a lower total ...

A total of 117 fillies were made eligible to compete... A strong 14-horse field has entered Saturday’s $1.25 million Rebel (G2) at Oaklawn Park. Eight of the entrants have already earned points on the ...

Last May, NBC Sports announced a partnership with Churchill Downs to present the Kentucky Derby on NBC and Peacock through 2032. The extension includes multiplatform rights to the Kentucky Derby ...

and WinStar Farm’s John Hancock earned 20 points on the 2025 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series following his half-length score in the $200,000 Sam F. Davis S. at Tampa Bay Downs on February ...

Touchy (7-2), McKinzie Street (4-1), Caldera (5-1) and Take Charge Tom (8-1) round out the top five among the nine 2025 Sunland Derby horses. Stronghold won this Kentucky Derby prep race last year.

meaning he’s eligible to run horses in the 2025 Kentucky Derby. The 72-year-old trainer, who has won two Triple Crowns and a record 17 Triple Crown races in total, is launching his potential ...

Wayne Lukas began training quarter horses in 1976, eventually moved to thoroughbreds, and has 15 Triple Crown race wins on his Hall of Fame resume, including four in the Kentucky Derby. Even after he ...

perhaps the most memorable was in the 1996 Kentucky Derby when Lukas’ Thunder Gulch nosed out Cavonnier, Baffert’s first Derby starter. The Sunland Park Derby may not produce a winner on the first ...

Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), a Group 1 winner at the back end of 2024 in the Tokyo Daishoten and third in the GI ...

and the solid connections of trainer Steve Asmussen and owner Winchell Thoroughbreds. The victory was worth 50 points on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" leaderboard, which put the colt second ...

The three-time stakes winner Emperor Wakea will start in a Grade 1 for the first time in Sunday’s $1.564 million February Stakes at a mile at Tokyo Racecourse in Japan, that nation’s first top ...