Kentucky Derby News

Welcome to our 2025 Breeders' Cup Saturday coverage!

Ted Noffey capped an undefeated season and undoubtedly clinched championship honors as the country's top two-year-old colt of 2025, with a one-length tally in the $1.76 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar on Friday.

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The contenders in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) have pedigree connections to past editions of the championships.

In 1920, another distaffer challenged colts and geldings beneath the Twin Spires at Churchill Downs: Cleopatra, a stakes-winning filly from the barn of William Robinson Coe. Derby Day 1920 was not her day to shine, but this lucky loser started a lineage...

A superb field of seven two-year-olds will vie in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar on Friday. The race will serve as a key qualifier on the 2026 Road to the Kentucky Derby challenge series, with the top five finishers receiving...

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) typically determines the champion two-year-old filly of the year, and 10 Juvenile Fillies participants have gone on to win the following year’s Kentucky Oaks (G1).

The 1957 Kentucky Derby might be best known for Bill Shoemaker’s misjudging the finish line at Churchill Downs: his hesitation with a sixteenth of a mile to go gave Bill Hartack on Iron Liege the chance to make up enough ground to beat Shoemaker and...

If you’d been watching juvenile racing this weekend last year, you would have seen the winner of both the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.

Many of the most prominent horses on the 2025-26 Road to the Kentucky Derby leaderboard are facing off in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar.