Oaks News

In the 1966 Kentucky Oaks, the ancestress of Splendora and Auguste Rodin (Native Street) beat the ancestress of Flightline and Golden Tempo (Lady Pitt).

Manuka Honey is the early points-leader on the “Road to the Kentucky Oaks” after collecting 10 points.

Just as the Road to the Kentucky Derby kicks off with Saturday’s Iroquois (G3) at Churchill Downs, so does its sister race, the Pocahontas (G3), open the Road to the Kentucky Oaks for fillies.

The Road to Kentucky Derby 153 will get underway Saturday with a field of nine 2-year-olds entered in the Iroquois Stakes (Grade III) at Churchill Downs.

To kick off our series celebrating Oaks winners as influential producers, we’ll commemorate the ancestress of reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty.

Effusive, a juvenile filly out of champion Monomoy Girl, stamped herself one to follow after overcoming adversity in her debut at Saratoga.

After Cherie DeVaux made history as the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner in Golden Tempo, Seina Imamura scored a breakthrough as the first female jockey to win a classic race in Japan.

A field of 10 three-year-old fillies will race 1 1/8 miles at Laurel Park in Friday’s $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2).

Alaistair Bull reflects on this year's Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Power Rankings, and how the rankings worked out on two of racing's biggest days of the year.

Douglas Scharbauer and Three Chimneys Farm’s undefeated Always a Runner kicked into high gear late to get up in Friday night’s $1.5 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs.