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The Road to the Kentucky Derby is now in high gear, with the Feb. 14 Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds representing the first of 15 races in the Kentucky Derby Championship Series.

Two-time stakes winner Street Beast will step onto the Road to the Kentucky Derby when he leads an oversubscribed field of 13 three-year-olds entered in Saturday's $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park.

The Road to the Kentucky Derby heads to Turfway Park on Saturday for the $175,000 John Battaglia Memorial S., worth 20-10-6-4-2 points to the top five finishers.

It says a bit about the open nature of this year’s Kentucky Derby picture that the top individual still doesn’t hold favoritism in Pool 4 of the Future Wager.

Reddam Racing’s homebred three-year-old colt Pavlovian earned the winners’ share of the $500,000 purse, as well as 20 qualifying points on the 2026 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series, following his ultra-game victory in the Sunland Derby...

A pair of gray shippers from California plundered the Road to the Kentucky Derby and Oaks races at Sunland Park on Sunday.

On Saturday at Fair Grounds, Paladin and Bella Ballerina bolstered their credentials as 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1) contenders with hard-fought triumphs in the Risen Star (G2) and Rachel Alexandra (G2).

Saturday’s Saudi Derby (G3) attracted promising three-year-olds from around the world, including the U.S. and Japan, but locally-based Al Haram beat them all to keep the trophy at home.

The saint's feast day became associated with romantic love, but there are more practical reasons why it's also the start of the Thoroughbred breeding season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Two years ago, Japan’s Forever Young won the Saudi Derby (G3) on the way to his near-miss third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and global stardom.