Derby News

MAGE GETS FIRST FEEL FOR CHURCHILL DOWNS TRACK; DERBY CONTENDERS CONTINUAR, DERMA SOTOGAKE, SUN THUNDER SLATED TO WORK WEDNESDAY
LOUISVILLE, KY (Tuesday, April 25, 2023) – Florida Derby (GI) runner-up Mage, who arrived at Churchill Downs early Monday,...

With special thanks to Shadai Farm's Tsubasa Sato for obtaining comments and photos
The powerhouse of Shadai recently won the first jewel of Japan’s Triple Crown with exciting homebred Sol Oriens, an unbeaten colt who has all the qualities...

It was a crisp 35-degree morning at Churchill Downs where Winchell
Thoroughbreds’ TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (Grade II) runner-up Disarm
worked five furlongs in 1:00 with jockey Joel Rosario aboard for Steve
Asmussen.
    Disarm,...

What meal options do menus from 65 years ago offer?
Back for a second consecutive year, Chef Kenneth Hardiman, the culinary leader at Levy, will curate the official menu of the 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) featuring a number of elevated classic Kentucky dishes...

Repole
Stable and St. Elias Stable’s
Forte led the 2023
Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series going into winter after victories in the $600,000 Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland on
Oct. 8 and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1)...

Joining the show today is the unofficial mayor of the backside of Churchill Downs, Backside Security Coordinator Bill Vest. On today’s show Darren and KK bring on Bill to talk about his work and go behind the scenes to talk about his role at the...

Picking
the winner in a race can be difficult enough when the field is large and evenly
matched, but selecting the winner across multiple consecutive races is a whole
other challenge.
However,
a horizontal wager — or a bet made across more...

It’s well known that the sire of Kingsbarns, brilliant champion Uncle Mo, was scratched from the Kentucky Derby (G1) due to illness in 2011. But the dam (mother) of Kingsbarns, Lady Tapit, was herself highly regarded. A rare filly to be nominated...

“This Derby is developing so good that it almost
frightens me.”

Equidistant between a nuclear confrontation that had been
successfully averted and a national tragedy that would kickstart years of
domestic turbulence, the spring of 1963 was...

The 2022 Kentucky Derby (G1) was one for the ages, as 80-1 Rich Strike beat out 4-1
favorite
Epicenter, who placed second, resulting in an astounding $4,101.20 payout on a $2 exacta wager.

While you don’t
see that kind of payoff at the racetrack...