Kentucky Derby News

An accomplished field of eight fillies and mares will travel seven furlongs over the dirt surface at Churchill Downs in Saturday’s $300,000 Chicago (G2).

A really nice group of three-year-old fillies will race on the Churchill Downs dirt track on Saturday in the $175,000 Monomoy Girl S.

After going from last to first in the Kentucky Derby (G1), Golden Tempo repeated the same deep-closing tactics to win Saturday’s Belmont (G1) at Saratoga.

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Five of the nine entrants in Saturday’s Belmont (G1) are by stallions who have already sired a winner of the third jewel of the Triple Crown.

A strong cast of nine of the top three-year-old horses in training will run 1 1/4 miles over the dirt at Saratoga in the historic 158th Belmont (G1).

Saturday’s $2 million Belmont (G1) at Saratoga, the third and final leg of the 2026 Triple Crown, is shaping up as a rematch of the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Only a neck separated Golden Tempo and Renegade as they fought out the finish of the Kentucky Derby (G1), and the duo will resume their budding rivalry in Saturday’s $2 million Belmont (G1).

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.