Kentucky Derby News

Four of the seven fillies in Sunday’s $200,000 Santa Ynez Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita are trained by Bob Baffert, including the top two from the Dec. 5 Starlet (G1), Varda and Kalypso. Like the Starlet, the Santa Ynez is a scoring race on the Road to...

Following a fourth in the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs, Swill will look to gain additional qualifying points toward a Kentucky Derby berth when he lines up for Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome S. at Aqueduct. The 3-year-old will meet four...

A compact field of five newly turned sophomores will travel a mile on the Aqueduct main strip in Friday’s $150,000 Jerome S. The top-four finishers of the New Year’s Day feature will earn points on a 10-4-2-1 basis in the 2021 Road to the Kentucky...

Joe Peacock’s homebred Senor Buscador was a dominant 5 3/4-length winner of the $200,000 Springboard Mile S. at Remington Park on Dec. 18. The colt stopped the teletimer in 1:37.87 for the one-mile event under Luis Quinonez, and although he didn’t...

SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Golconda Stables, Siena Farm, and Robert Masterson’s Spielberg earned 10 points on the “2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby” when posting a nose victory in the$200,500 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) on Dec....

Senor Buscador utilized an eye-catching turn of foot, accelerating past rivals on the far turn, and drew off impressively to capture Friday’s $200,000 Springboard Mile S. at Remington Park. A convincing winner in both career starts, Senor Buscador is...

Spielberg rallied to nail The Great One in the final stride of Saturday’s $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), registering his first stakes victory in the Road to the Kentucky Derby series qualifier. The 2-year-old colt extended Hall of Fame trainer...

A compact field of six 2-year-olds will travel 1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), a 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series event, with the top-four finishers earning points on a 10-4-2-1 basis. Trained by John...

Red Flag will make his first start in a Kentucky Derby qualifier when he lines up for Saturday’s $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2). A smashing winner of the Nov. 15 Bob Hope S. (G3) at Del Mar, the 2-year-old colt will face five rivals in his initial...

An unbeaten colt starred in Wednesday’s Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at Kawasaki, but it was Alain Barows, not hot favorite Dualist, who romped to the top of the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard. The speedy son of Henny Hughes led at every call...