Kentucky Derby News

Before Sunday’s 10-race card wraps the second week at Churchill Downs’ Fall Meet, here’s a look back at the prior four days that saw Viking and Mercante win Saturday’s stakes, apprentice jockey Yomar Ortiz Jr. ride seven winners and Florent Geroux...

Carl Pollard’s 6-year-old homebred gelding Mercante went straight to the front and outlasted a constant threat from 2-1 favorite Kupuna to prevail in Saturday’s 47th running of the $300,000 River City (Grade III) at Churchill Downs by a half-length.
 
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Churchill Downs Racetrack will introduce a new element to its renowned Stars of Tomorrow II program for 2-year-old Thoroughbreds on Saturday, Nov. 28 with a first-ever golf-style skins competition among Kentucky stallion farms.
 
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Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.’s graded stakes-winning trio of Haulin Ice, Indy Bay and Mystic Lake leads a compact field of six filly and mare sprinters entered in next Saturday’s 21st running of the $300,000 Dream Supreme (Listed) at Churchill Downs.
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Zedan Racing Stables’ Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Grade I) third-place finisher Salahudin could make his next start in the $400,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) on Saturday, Nov. 28 at Churchill Downs, according to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.
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Apprentice jockey Yomar Ortiz Jr. scored his first career riding double Wednesday at Churchill Downs, less than a month after making his professional debut at Keeneland.
Ortiz, 17, skimmed the rail aboard Tiffany Twist for trainer Joe Sharp to win Race...

Jockeys Martin Garcia and Florent Geroux are scheduled to resume riding Thursday at Churchill Downs after being sidelined by injuries from separate incidents during the September Meet.
Geroux is named on Donie Maronie for trainer Mark Casse in Race 3...

Carl R. Moore Management’s Grade II Sycamore winner Lambeth leads an accomplished field of eight turf specialists entered in the 47th running of the $300,000 River City (Grade III), part of a stakes doubleheader on Saturday’s 11-race card at Churchill...

Single day general admission tickets for the 153rd running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve and Longines Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs will be available for purchase Thursday (today) at 12 p.m. ET.
 
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Team Valor International’s dominant Champagne Stakes (Grade I) winner U. S. S. Valor (8-1) headlines the first of six opportunities to bet on Kentucky Derby 153 contenders in advance of the May 1 classic when Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager...