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Judge in Baffert-Churchill case expected to issue decision on injunction before Feb. 28

DRF | 1 year ago
A two-day hearing in a U.S. District Court to weigh arguments on whether Churchill Downs can continue to ban trainer Bob Baffert from this year’s Kentucky Derby concluded Friday afternoon, and a decision on a request by Baffert’s attorneys for a tempor... Read More...

Judge in Baffert-Churchill case expected to issue decision on injunction before Feb. 28

DRF | 1 year ago
A two-day hearing in a U.S. District Court to weigh arguments on whether Churchill Downs can continue to ban trainer Bob Baffert from this year’s Kentucky Derby concluded Friday afternoon, and a decision on a request by Baffert’s attorneys for a tempor... Read More...

Cyclone Mischief looks to rise up ranks in Holy Bull

DRF | 1 year ago
Cyclone Mischief was rated No. 12 in Daily Racing Form's inaugural Derby Watch for the 2023 road to the Kentucky Derby. He would improve significantly on that position when list two is released next week with a big performance in Saturday's $250,000 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Read More...

Cyclone Mischief looks to rise up ranks in Holy Bull

DRF | 1 year ago
Cyclone Mischief was rated No. 12 in Daily Racing Form's inaugural Derby Watch for the 2023 road to the Kentucky Derby. He would improve significantly on that position when list two is released next week with a big performance in Saturday's $250,000 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Read More...

Derby Watch: Despite Kentucky Derby ban, Baffert’s influence is undeniable

DRF | 1 year ago
The disqualification of the Bob Baffert-trained Medina Spirit from his 2021 Kentucky Derby win still hangs over the sport of Thoroughbred racing and its most famous horse race nearly two years later and three months before the 149th Run for the Roses is to be conducted, May 6, at Churchill Downs. But it hasn't led to a lack of top-flight Derby prospects emanating from Baffert's barn. Read More...

Brown starts readying Blazing Sevens for first Kentucky Derby prep

DRF | 1 year ago
Blazing Sevens, who appears to be trainer Chad Brown's lone Kentucky Derby hope at this point, will make his 3-year-old debut in either the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds on Feb. 18 or the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park on March 4, Brown said Tuesday. Read More...

Quick maiden winner Banishing resumes training after cutting leg

DRF | 1 year ago
Banishing, the fastest 2- or 3-year-old maiden winner at the ongoing Fair Grounds meet, has resumed galloping after missing a period of training due to a cut on his leg. Read More...

Cave Rock yet to get started on work tab, Rebel in doubt

DRF | 1 year ago
Time may have run out for Cave Rock to make his targeted comeback race, initially planned to be the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes on Feb. 25 at Oaklawn Park. Read More...

Road to 2023 Kentucky Derby: Southwest Stakes analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
When you get young, lightly raced horses competing on a sloppy, sealed surface like the one in the Jan. 28 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, you often don’t learn as much about them as you’d like. And as for the race’s runaway winner, Arabian Knight, w... Read More...

Road to 2023 Kentucky Derby: Southwest Stakes analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
When you get young, lightly raced horses competing on a sloppy, sealed surface like the one in the Jan. 28 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, you often don’t learn as much about them as you’d like. And as for the race’s runaway winner, Arabian Knight, w... Read More...

Baffert to give Arabian Knight plenty of time off impressive Southwest Stakes victory

DRF | 1 year ago
Arabian Knight has initially emerged from his tour-de-force run in the Grade 3, $750,000 Southwest on Saturday at Oaklawn Park in fine fashion and likely will have a good amount of time between now and his next start, trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday. Read More...

Southwest contenders come from all over

DRF | 1 year ago
Every horse in the Grade 3, $750,000 Southwest on Saturday at Oaklawn Park has something to prove, whether a leading Kentucky Derby points earner in Jace's Road, a $2.3 million purchase in Arabian Knight, an undefeated stakes winner in Corona Bolt, a blueblood in Red Route One, or a local stakes winner in Frosted Departure. Read More...

Verifying between Risen Star and Rebel for next start

DRF | 1 year ago
Verifying, a half-brother to champion Midnight Bisou who is tied atop the Beyer Speed Figure standings for 3-year-olds, will likely make his next start in a Kentucky Derby points race at Oaklawn Park or Fair Grounds, according to trainer Brad Cox. Read More...

Verifying between Risen Star and Rebel for next start

DRF | 1 year ago
Verifying, a half-brother to champion Midnight Bisou who is tied atop the Beyer Speed Figure standings for 3-year-olds, will likely make his next start in a Kentucky Derby points race at Oaklawn Park or Fair Grounds, according to trainer Brad Cox. Read More...

Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby: Lecomte Stakes analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
Instant Coffee had to overcome a slow pace winning the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes on Nov. 26 but had a far more favorable race flow in the Grade 3 Lecomte, where the half-mile split came up a wickedly fast 47.19 seconds. With a pace assist, Instant Co... Read More...

Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby: Lecomte Stakes analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
Instant Coffee had to overcome a slow pace winning the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes on Nov. 26 but had a far more favorable race flow in the Grade 3 Lecomte, where the half-mile split came up a wickedly fast 47.19 seconds. With a pace assist, Instant Co... Read More...

Field 2-1 favorite in Pool 3 of Kentucky Derby Future Wager

DRF | 1 year ago
Pool 3 in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday evening with the mutuel field as the 2-1 favorite among 40 wagering options. Read More...

Field 2-1 favorite in Pool 3 of Kentucky Derby Future Wager

DRF | 1 year ago
Pool 3 in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday evening with the mutuel field as the 2-1 favorite among 40 wagering options. Read More...

Practical Move eyeing Rebel, San Felipe for comeback race

DRF | 1 year ago
Practical Move, winner of the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity on Dec. 17, is under consideration for one of two Grade 2 stakes at 1 1/16 miles later this winter, trainer Tim Yakteen said Sunday. Read More...

Practical Move eyeing Rebel, San Felipe for comeback race

DRF | 1 year ago
Practical Move, winner of the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity on Dec. 17, is under consideration for one of two Grade 2 stakes at 1 1/16 miles later this winter, trainer Tim Yakteen said Sunday. Read More...

Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby: Smarty Jones Stakes analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
Victory Formation was 3-5 favorite in the Smarty Jones in great part because he came into the race with two wins from two starts and had popular connections -- Flavien Prat riding for trainer Brad Cox -- but the nature of the competition also had somet... Read More...

Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
The manner in which the BC Juvenile would unfold began to take shape the weekend before the race, when Hurricane J was scratched from the Bowman Mill Stakes to instead start in the Juvenile. He went off at odds of 70-1 in the Juvenile and in the end he... Read More...

Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile analysis

DRF | 1 year ago
The manner in which the BC Juvenile would unfold began to take shape the weekend before the race, when Hurricane J was scratched from the Bowman Mill Stakes to instead start in the Juvenile. He went off at odds of 70-1 in the Juvenile and in the end he... Read More...

Kentucky Derby: Woodford Reserve extends sponsorship through 2027

DRF | 1 year ago
Woodford Reserve, the bourbon brand sold by Brown-Forman, has reached an agreement with Churchill Downs Inc. to extend its presenting sponsorship of the Kentucky Derby through 2027, the companies announced on Wednesday. Read More...

Despite edge in numbers, Baffert no lock to win Sham Stakes

DRF | 1 year ago
A pair of party crashers face a tough task at Santa Anita on Sunday when they try to wrest the Grade 3 Sham Stakes from a stable that practically owns the race for 3-year-olds. Read More...

Japan: Derma Sotogake earns Kentucky Derby qualifying points at Kawasaki Racecourse

DRF | 1 year ago
Derma Sotogake won his third consecutive start, and first stakes, in Wednesday’s $529,000 Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun at a mile for 2-year-olds at Kawasaki Racecourse in Japan, earning 20 qualifying points for the 2023 Kentucky Derby on May 6. Read More...

‘All others’ favored as Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2 closes

DRF | 1 year ago
The mutuel field, the 40th or “all others” option, was the 4-5 favorite when Pool 2 of the 2023 Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday evening following a four-day betting window. Read More...

‘All others’ favored as Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2 closes

DRF | 1 year ago
The mutuel field, the 40th or “all others” option, was the 4-5 favorite when Pool 2 of the 2023 Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Sunday evening following a four-day betting window. Read More...

Kentucky Derby, Oaks points system gets a few tweaks

DRF | 2 years ago
Officials at Churchill Downs announced Friday a series of slight modifications to the points system governing entry into the Kentucky Derby and Oaks in coming years, including toward next May, when both classics will be renewed. The most significant changes are allowing points to the top five finishers instead of four, and increasing the value of the two Breeders' Cup juvenile dirt races. Read More...

Iroquois, Pocahontas kick off road to Kentucky Derby, Oaks

DRF | 2 years ago
The parallel roads to the 2023 Kentucky Derby and Oaks will both open Saturday when a pair of longstanding fixtures for 2-year-olds anchor an 11-race program at Churchill Downs. Read More...

Rich Strike’s Kentucky Derby upset greater than sire Keen Ice’s Travers

DRF | 2 years ago
Rich Strike, from the first crop of Calumet Farm stallion Keen Ice, pulled off the second-biggest upset in Kentucky Derby history on Saturday evening at Churchill Downs, shocking a full house as he overhauled favored Epicenter in the final stages and r... Read More...

Rich Strike’s Kentucky Derby upset greater than sire Keen Ice’s Travers

DRF | 2 years ago
Rich Strike, from the first crop of Calumet Farm stallion Keen Ice, pulled off the second-biggest upset in Kentucky Derby history on Saturday evening at Churchill Downs, shocking a full house as he overhauled favored Epicenter in the final stages and r... Read More...

Rich Strike headed to Preakness, but much of Derby field won’t join him

DRF | 2 years ago
Rich Strike, the improbable winner of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, headed home to Lexington on Sunday from Churchill Downs, and will spend a bit more than a week at trainer Eric Reed’s private training center, Mercury Equine, before embarking on the... Read More...

Asmussen: No Derby victory, but still great weekend

DRF | 2 years ago
Although he just missed winning the Kentucky Derby with Epicenter, marking the third time he’s finished second in the Derby, trainer Steve Asmussen still had himself a terrific two days at Churchill Downs. Read More...

Kentucky Derby, day after: an ‘absolute miracle’ Rich Strike trainer Eric Reed says

DRF | 2 years ago
If veteran trainer Eric Reed had not been saddling his first Kentucky Derby starter on Saturday, “I promise you I would have been on the lake fishing.”  Read More...

Kentucky Derby, day after: an ‘absolute miracle’ Rich Strike trainer Eric Reed says

DRF | 2 years ago
If veteran trainer Eric Reed had not been saddling his first Kentucky Derby starter on Saturday, “I promise you I would have been on the lake fishing.”  Read More...

Kentucky Derby 2022: Stretch run an all-too-familiar ending for Brown

DRF | 2 years ago
As the field turned into the stretch, trainer Chad Brown had every right to believe he was finally going to get his first Kentucky Derby victory late Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs, as his Blue Grass winner Zandon loomed up in perfect striking p... Read More...

Kentucky Derby 2022: Stretch run an all-too-familiar ending for Brown

DRF | 2 years ago
As the field turned into the stretch, trainer Chad Brown had every right to believe he was finally going to get his first Kentucky Derby victory late Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs, as his Blue Grass winner Zandon loomed up in perfect striking p... Read More...

Asmussen on Derby: ‘Want to win it, meant to win it, didn’t win it’

DRF | 2 years ago
Steve Asmussen was too much in shock to be disappointed after Saturday's Kentucky Derby. “When they tell me this happened tomorrow, I’m still going to go ‘Are you sure?’ ” Asmussen, the trainer of Kentucky Derby runner-up Epicenter, said. Read More...

Asmussen on Derby: ‘Want to win it, meant to win it, didn’t win it’

DRF | 2 years ago
Steve Asmussen was too much in shock to be disappointed after Saturday's Kentucky Derby. “When they tell me this happened tomorrow, I’m still going to go ‘Are you sure?’ ” Asmussen, the trainer of Kentucky Derby runner-up Epicenter, said. Read More...

Kentucky Derby: Rich Strike, 80-1, hits the big one

DRF | 2 years ago
In one of the biggest upsets in race history, Rich Strike rallied up the rail to win as an 80-1 shot Saturday in an amazing renewal of the Grade 1, $3 million Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Read More...

Kentucky Derby: Rich Strike, 80-1, hits the big one

DRF | 2 years ago
In one of the biggest upsets in race history, Rich Strike rallied up the rail to win as an 80-1 shot Saturday in an amazing renewal of the Grade 1, $3 million Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Read More...

Winners coming from all over in early Kentucky Derby Day races

DRF | 2 years ago
We’re eight races into this Kentucky Derby card and have just seen Obligatory blast last to first to win the Derby City Distaff, her first Grade 1.   Read More...

Kentucky Derby 2022: Saez goes for Oaks-Derby sweep; early scratches on card

DRF | 2 years ago
Fresh off his victory aboard Secret Oath in the Kentucky Oaks, jockey Luis Saez was set on Saturday at Churchill Downs to try and sweep both that race and the Kentucky Derby, a feat that has been accomplished twice in the past 12 years, but officially ... Read More...

Kentucky Derby 2022: Classic sirelines well represented in field

DRF | 2 years ago
Try to name reliable classic lines in the United States, and a couple immediately come to mind: Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled, who has founded a strong branch of the family tree for his grandsire, the prolific Mr. Prospector, and Belmont Stakes winne... Read More...

Kentucky Derby 2022: Epicenter, Taiba the favorites in early betting

DRF | 2 years ago
Epicenter and Taiba were vying for favoritism in early Kentucky Derby betting as of 7:30 p.m. Friday.   Read More...

2022 Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby will-pays

DRF | 2 years ago
Wagers on the Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby double will pay the following for a $1 bet. Read More...

2022 Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby will-pays

DRF | 2 years ago
Wagers on the Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby double will pay the following for a $1 bet. Read More...