Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming will return to training next month and be pointed for a four-year-old campaign, WinStar Farm announced on Monday. The news comes after the son of Bodemeister was found clear […]
Michael Spector, a freelance writer who grew up going to racetracks with his father, is the winner of the fourth annual Ron Rippey Award for Handicapping Media for his “2017 Kentucky Derby Pace Thesis” that […]
A narrow-margin victory in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) in early September looks, in retrospect, to have been just the tip of an iceberg known as Bolt d’Oro. On Saturday, the son of Medaglia d’Oro […]
The Wynn Las Vegas opened wagering on the 2018 Kentucky Derby at 9 a.m. (PDT) on Thursday, September 21, and undefeated graded winners Bolt d’Oro and The Tabulator were the co-favorites at 40-1. However, it […]
The racing world is mourning the loss of Helen “Penny” Chenery, who became an icon along with her Triple Crown-winning legend Secretariat. The “First Lady of Thoroughbred Racing” passed away at the age of 95, […]
The $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot (G3), a 1 1/16-mile race for juveniles won in recent years by such luminaries as Exaggerator, Gunnevera, Goldencents, and Big Drama, is one of eight open stakes races that […]
While the ramifications of the new “European Road to the Kentucky Derby” and the augmented “Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby” will become clear only in time, the international outreach is a welcome development for […]
Churchill Downs on Thursday unveiled the points schedule for eligibility to the 2018 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), with several new initiatives for the upcoming year. One year after establishing a separate “Japan […]
Trainer Todd Pletcher worked three of his Travers (G1) hopefuls Friday morning at Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track, including Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming and Belmont S. (G1) hero Tapwrit. Third in the Jim Dandy […]
We’re halfway home at the premiere summer meetings, and with the Road to the Kentucky Derby (i.e. points races) beginning in a few weeks and the Wynn Las Vegas expected to open its 2018 Kentucky […]
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