Kentucky Derby Power Rankings

Forget the NFL; look away from the midterms. The all-important first Power Rankings for the 2027 Kentucky Derby are here, and there’s one burning question: are you Team Hughes, or Team U. S. S. Valor?

A fantastic field of 11 three-year-old fillies will travel 1 1/8 miles over the turf at Keeneland Race Course in Saturday’s historic, $750,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1).

Juddmonte’s homebred filly Amusingly uncorked a last-to-first rally to beat the boys in Sunday’s Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (G1), a scoring race on the Euro/Mideast Road to the Kentucky Derby.

On Saturday, contenders for the 2027 Kentucky Derby (G1) took center stage in a trio of early Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifiers across the country.

A pair of Kentucky Oaks (G1) qualifiers at opposite ends of the country on Saturday yielded eye-catching winners.

In a battle of unbeatens in the $557,450 Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland on Friday, Emphatic pulled off a minor surprise over odds-on favorite Summer Starlet.

A small and talented cast of six two-year-old horses will go a one-turn mile over the Belmont Park dirt surface in Saturday’s $500,000 Champagne (G1).

Alcibiades, the 1930 Kentucky Oaks winner and Derby competitor, is commemorated with a Grade 1 race in her honor on the opening Friday of Keeneland’s fall meet.

The about seven-furlong turf contest serves as a scoring race on the Euro/Mideast Road to the Kentucky Derby and as a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1).

On the latest episode of Inside the Kentucky Derby, hosts Kevin Kerstein and Darren Rogers preview a trio of important Road to the Kentucky Derby races: the American Pharoah Stakes, the Breeders’ Futurity and the Champagne Stakes.