Kentucky Derby News

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 nine 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.

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) will have a strong favorite, while the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) will have less of one when the marquee races in their respective divisions are run Friday at Del Mar.

Pin Oak Stud’s Incredibolt rallied from last to surge past 7-5 favorite Universe in deep stretch and win Sunday’s 13th running of the $200,000 Street Sense (Grade III) at Churchill Downs.

The Coolmore partners’ Hawk Mountain ascended to the top of the Euro/Mideast Road leaderboard by capturing Saturday’s Futurity Trophy (G1) at Doncaster.

Before Rachel brought down the house and Anna nearly took home the Man o’ War Cup, one filly crafted a crown of lilies and carnations—Rags to Riches. In a career that was the opposite of her name, this daughter of A.P. Indy took a distaff classic...