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...
Tags ‘kentucky derby’
A Kentucky Derby victory would add to Japanese racing’s recent dominance
DRF | 2 years ago
Japanese Thoroughbreds have gone on such a dizzying run of success since the first Saturday last November that Crown Pride, a Japanese horse stabled at Churchill Downs for more than a month, should be taken seriously the first Saturday this May.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: International cast of jockeys and trainers seek roses for first time
DRF | 2 years ago
The 2022 Derby debut cast originally hails from Australia, France, India, Japan, and elsewhere. Here is a look at the jockeys and trainers who will be on the program in the Kentucky Derby for the first time.
Read More...
Scratch allows trainer’s Kentucky Derby dream to come true
DRF | 2 years ago
Scratch time for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks arrived Friday at 9 a.m. Eastern at Churchill Downs with the 11th-hour defection of Ethereal Road from the Derby, allowing Rich Strike (No. 21) to fill his spot in post position 20. The last-second news was ...
Read More...
Ethereal Road scratches; Rich Strike draws in
DRF | 2 years ago
Ethereal Road was scratched from the Kentucky Derby on Friday morning, allowing the first also-eligible, Rich Strike, to get in.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby 2022 results and payouts
DRF | 2 years ago
Results and payouts from the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 7, 2022, at Churchill Downs.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby 2022 results and payouts
DRF | 2 years ago
Results and payouts from the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 7, 2022, at Churchill Downs, won by Rich Strike.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Prat hoping to win this year’s race without any outside help
DRF | 2 years ago
Jockey Flavien Prat's lone victory in the Kentucky Derby didn't come with the typical fanfare. In 2019, Prat was the rider of Country House, who crossed the wire second behind Maximum Security. When Maximum Security was disqualified, Country House was elevated to first. Saturday, Prat will have his fifth Kentucky Derby mount on Zandon, the morning-line favorite.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Summer Is Tomorrow holding up under the pressure
DRF | 2 years ago
The chaos of Kentucky Derby week can be a major gauntlet for young, inexperienced horses - even those who have raced in this country. Summer Is Tomorrow has extra hurdles. Not only has he traversed the globe to get here, but his base is the private Zab...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Barber Road well prepared for 20-horse scrum
DRF | 2 years ago
The expected full field for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby will create a scenario none of the 20 who go into battle have ever seen before, or will again. Young nerves will be tested in such a large field by the jostling for position, tight spaces, and fierc...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Even longest longshot won’t be 100-1
DRF | 2 years ago
It’s been 21 years since a Derby starter was 99-1 on the Churchill toteboard, and it appears unlikely that drought will end this year.
Read More...
New wagers on offer for Kentucky Derby Day
DRF | 2 years ago
Aside from the plethora of familiar wagering options Saturday, Churchill is offering two new multi-race bets.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Early adopters can revel in 50-1 odds on Zandon, Epicenter
DRF | 2 years ago
Fans who climbed aboard the Epicenter or Zandon bandwagon well before each colt established himself as a Kentucky Derby favorite have an edge on their fellow futures bettors. Zandon was 56-1 and Epicenter was 52-1 in the first of five pools in the Kent...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby clocker report: A relaxed Crown Pride sizzles in half-mile blowout
DRF | 2 years ago
Crown Pride was all the rage, and rightfully so, Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs after turning in a powerful and very impressive final breeze for Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Epicenter can give Asmussen a long-awaited first win
DRF | 2 years ago
Horses trained by Steve Asmussen made 2,427 starts during 2021. Asmussen, as of Monday, had won 9,727 races during his career. He has won eight Breeders' Cup races, won the Preakness twice, and won the Belmont once. This spring, as the 148th Kentucky Derby looms, the number that keeps coming up is zero.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Pope thrilled to be running Charge It, a homebred
DRF | 2 years ago
They say breed the best to the best, and hope for the best. Mandy Pope began seriously upgrading her broodmare band about a decade ago in order to follow that maxim, and has established one of the best in the country. That has led her to Kentucky Derby week, where she's hoping for the best with her lightly raced Charge It.
Read More...
Cox accepts trophy at Kentucky Derby Trainers’ Dinner
DRF | 2 years ago
The annual Kentucky Thoroughbred Association’s Kentucky Derby Trainers’ Dinner always includes a trophy presentation to the reigning Derby-winning trainer. This year’s honoree, Brad Cox, was quick to acknowledge the elephant in the room Tuesday night a...
Read More...
Two new bets added to Kentucky Derby Day exotics menu
DRF | 2 years ago
The traditional bounty of wagering options Friday and Saturday on Churchill racing includes a couple of new Derby Day bets.
Read More...
Two new bets added to Kentucky Derby Day exotics menu
DRF | 2 years ago
The traditional bounty of wagering options Friday and Saturday on Churchill racing includes a couple of new Derby Day bets.
Read More...
White Abarrio gives Into Mischief chance to make statement as broodmare sire
DRF | 2 years ago
It often takes longer for a stallion to prove himself as a broodmare sire than as a sire of sires. With no expensive stud deals in the offing, fillies sometimes race longer than colts – and, of course, once retired, they only have one foal a year to be...
Read More...
White Abarrio gives Into Mischief chance to make statement as broodmare sire
DRF | 2 years ago
It often takes longer for a stallion to prove himself as a broodmare sire than as a sire of sires. With no expensive stud deals in the offing, fillies sometimes race longer than colts – and, of course, once retired, they only have one foal a year to be...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: With three starters, Cox hoping for the full Derby-winning experience
DRF | 2 years ago
Trainer Brad Cox won last year's Kentucky Derby, but nine months after it was run when Mandaloun was awarded the victory on the disqualification of Medina Spirit. This year, Cox has three starters in the 2022 Derby – Cyberknife, Zozos, and Tawny Port – and he is hoping for a raceday victory by one of them.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby clocker report: Epicenter among the early birds training in the rain
DRF | 2 years ago
Weather was the story on Tuesday at Churchill Downs, with rain, heavy at times, beginning just as the track opened for training and continuing right up to the first renovation break nearly two hours later.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Barber Road, Gutierrez continue preparation
DRF | 2 years ago
The homework now begins in earnest for the jockeys of the 148th Kentucky Derby following Monday afternoon's post position draw. "[A lot] depends on me and studying my race," said Reylu Gutierrez, who will ride the late-running Barber Road as his first Derby mount.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Cyberknife gives owner Al Gold his long-awaited big horse
DRF | 2 years ago
After 18 years of trials and tribulations, Al Gold scored his first Grade 1 victory when Cyberknife won the $1.25 million Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park. Saturday, Cyberknife will be Gold's first starter in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Summer Is Tomorrow ready for blast-off
DRF | 2 years ago
Summer Is Tomorrow had a quiet Tuesday morning, walking at the quarantine barn that houses the international candidates for the Kentucky Derby a day after turning in his final breeze toward the race, and a day after drawing a post position that will ma...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Epicenter dodges rain in morning gallop
DRF | 2 years ago
Epicenter, no worse than second choice for the Kentucky Derby, galloped one mile just after the Churchill Downs track opened for training on a rainy Tuesday morning. The Louisiana Derby winner came out of a five-furlong workout Sunday in good shape and...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Favorite Zandon draws post 10, Epicenter in post 3
DRF | 2 years ago
Zandon drew post 10 and was made the 3-1 morning-line favorite, and Epicenter landed post 3 and was installed the second choice at 7-2, as a full field of 20, plus two also-eligibles, had posts assigned Monday afternoon at Churchill Downs for the 148th...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Favorite Zandon draws post 10, Epicenter in post 3
DRF | 2 years ago
Zandon drew post 10 and was made the 3-1 morning-line favorite, and Epicenter landed post 3 and was installed the second choice at 7-2, as a full field of 20, plus two also-eligibles, had posts assigned Monday afternoon at Churchill Downs for the 148th...
Read More...
Not This Time quickly climbing the stallion ranks, has two runners in Kentucky Derby
DRF | 2 years ago
The Albaugh Family Stables’ Not This Time debuted for a $15,000 stud fee in 2017 at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., after injury curtailed his promising career. He has since been on a breakout ascent in the stallion ranks. From just his se...
Read More...
Not This Time quickly climbing the stallion ranks, has two runners in Kentucky Derby
DRF | 2 years ago
The Albaugh Family Stables’ Not This Time debuted for a $15,000 stud fee in 2017 at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., after injury curtailed his promising career. He has since been on a breakout ascent in the stallion ranks. From just his se...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Taiba the new poster boy for inexperienced starters
DRF | 2 years ago
When the colt Justify came to the Kentucky Derby in 2018, one might have mistaken the racing pages for tales of classical mythology or reports on the late-60s space program.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Taiba the new poster boy for inexperienced starters
DRF | 2 years ago
When the colt Justify came to the Kentucky Derby in 2018, one might have mistaken the racing pages for tales of classical mythology or reports on the late-60s space program.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby clocker: Summer Is Tomorrow breezes as final stragglers arrive
DRF | 2 years ago
Although the majority of this year's Derby field completed their final serious preps over the weekend at various venues around the country, there was still a little unfinished business to take care of workout-wise, the first of which took place during the special Derby-Oaks training session this morning, with Summer Is Tomorrow breezing an easy half-mile in 49.23 seconds.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: At 28, Silver Charm rules as oldest living Derby winner
DRF | 2 years ago
At Old Friends resides a celebrity, the horse who now reigns as the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner. Now age 28, Silver Charm is celebrating the silver anniversary of his Derby victory, which occurred 25 years ago, and 64 miles away, at Churchill D...
Read More...
2022 Kentucky Derby: Yakteen takes Baffert’s place as trainer – and media darling
DRF | 2 years ago
Tim Yakteen had been to the Kentucky Derby before, back when he was an assistant trainer to Charlie Whittingham, but never before like this. As would often happen in years past with Bob Baffert upon his initial arrival here Derby Week, Yakteen was the ...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Lynch hoping equipment adjustment will rejuvenate Classic Causeway
DRF | 2 years ago
Brian Lynch suspects Classic Causeway might have displaced his palate in his last race, perhaps accounting for the colt’s poor performance, so the trainer is tweaking a couple of things.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Lukas now back in with Ethereal Road
DRF | 2 years ago
A little after 8:30 Monday morning, trainer D. Wayne Lukas was sitting in his office at Churchill Downs talking about Ethereal Road, whom Lukas the day before had been contemplating entering in either the Kentucky Derby or Pat Day Mile on Saturday. He ...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Seemar emerging on his own as trainer of Summer Is Tomorrow
DRF | 2 years ago
Much has been made of Tim Yakteen, a former assistant to trainer Bob Baffert, saddling his first Kentucky Derby horses this year in Taiba and Messier, both of whom were transferred to Yakteen due to a Baffert suspension. But flying far under the radar ...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Un Ojo out; Ethereal Road in
DRF | 2 years ago
It was heartbreak on Kentucky Derby entry morning for the one-eyed New York-bred gelding Un Ojo, who was not entered for Saturday's classic after emerging from his final work with a bruised hoof.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Summer Is Tomorrow works a half-mile
DRF | 2 years ago
Almost all of the final works for the Kentucky Derby are now complete after Dubai-based Summer Is Tomorrow logged a half-mile breeze on Monday morning.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby clocker report: Epicenter gets rave reviews
DRF | 2 years ago
The weather created a bit of havoc, both locally and out of town, on the training schedules for two of the key players in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, although in the end both Louisiana Derby winner Epicenter and Florida Derby hero White Abarrio not only...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Epicenter work has Asmussen bubbling with excitement
DRF | 2 years ago
The rain had lifted, the air was fresh and the morning glorious around 8:30 on Sunday at Churchill Downs. A little earlier, trainer Steve Asmussen had sent out Epicenter, the Louisiana Derby winner, for his final workout in advance of Saturday’s 148th ...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Cox trio in ‘fantastic’ condition
DRF | 2 years ago
Trainer Brad Cox said Sunday morning that his three Kentucky Derby starters – Cyberknife, Zozos, and Tawny Port – had emerged from their Saturday workouts in “fantastic” condition.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Early Voting opts out, will wait for Preakness
DRF | 2 years ago
Making official what had been expected for the last few weeks, trainer Chad Brown on Sunday said that Early Voting would skip Saturday’s 148th Kentucky Derby and instead point to the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 21.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Early Voting opts out, will wait for Preakness
DRF | 2 years ago
Making official what had been expected for the last few weeks, trainer Chad Brown on Sunday said that Early Voting would skip Saturday’s 148th Kentucky Derby and instead point to the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 21.
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Summer Is Tomorrow has final breeze Monday morning
DRF | 2 years ago
The majority of the miles that Kentucky Derby candidates will log in their final serious breezes have been covered. One of the few moves remaining is that by Summer Is Tomorrow, who is expected to breeze four furlongs on Monday morning as part of his l...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Summer Is Tomorrow has final breeze Monday morning
DRF | 2 years ago
The majority of the miles that Kentucky Derby candidates will log in their final serious breezes have been covered. One of the few moves remaining is that by Summer Is Tomorrow, who is expected to breeze four furlongs on Monday morning as part of his l...
Read More...
Kentucky Derby: Barber Road, Un Ojo in good shape after final works
DRF | 2 years ago
Barber Road and Un Ojo, both of whom arrived at Churchill Downs off the Oaklawn Park road to the Kentucky Derby, emerged from their final works for the spring classic in good order, their respective camps reported Sunday morning.
Read More...
Barber Road, Un Ojo have smooth final works for Derby
DRF | 2 years ago
Barber Road and Un Ojo, both of whom arrived at Churchill Downs off the Oaklawn Park road to the Kentucky Derby, emerged from their final works for the spring classic in good order, their respective camps reported Sunday morning.
Read More...
